Top 400 Patricia Briggs Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “Try to look unimportant, Sarge; maybe they’ll be low on ammo.” “Too late,” Adam said with an involuntary grin. He hadn’t heard that phrase since ‘Nam, when officers were favorite targets of the enemy.”

— Patricia Briggs

52. “People who stand in the way of my mate’s ability to get herself out of trouble often feel like they were hit by buses. I think this might be the first time it is literally true, though.”

— Patricia Briggs

53. “My old pastor liked to say that church is a hospital for the sick, not a mausoleum for the saints.”

— Patricia Briggs

54. “There’s a difference between using someone and asking them for help – which you know very well.”

— Patricia Briggs

55. “Even knowing that David Bowie is gone, I am giddy about this.” He said all that in a very dry, professional tone.”

— Patricia Briggs

56. “Wulfe had been as likely to hoard dried flowers as exquisite jewelry.”

— Patricia Briggs

57. “You can’t cage an eagle for long without destroying it.”

— Patricia Briggs

58. “But you can’t marry someone to fix him, even if you love them.”

— Patricia Briggs

59. “Cheeses crusty, got all musty, got damp on the stone of a peach.”

— Patricia Briggs

60. “Don’t make light of any man’s pain.”

— Patricia Briggs

61. “Only cowards torture women.”

— Patricia Briggs

62. “Historically, war has often been used as a distraction for problems at home.”

— Patricia Briggs

63. “My father always said that too many words cheapened the value of a man’s speech.”

— Patricia Briggs

64. “Asil left Bran alone with his thoughts then, because if he stayed, Bran would argue with him. This way, Bran would have no one to argue with but himself. And Asil had always credited Bran with the ability to be persuasive.”

— Patricia Briggs

65. “You will eat this and go to sleep, so your pronouns get their antecedents back.”

— Patricia Briggs

66. “My will broke at the sound of his voice, and my head turned with as much inevitability as a sunflower turning its face to the sun.”

— Patricia Briggs

67. “A werewolf tossed me against a giant packing crate while I was trying to rescue a frightened young girl who’d been kidnapped by an evil witch and a drug lord.”

— Patricia Briggs

68. “People who know other people’s secrets can’t afford to do things that impair their ability to control their mouths.”

— Patricia Briggs

69. “A dominant wolf’s desire to protect was a strong instinct- Samuel was very dominant. Give him an inch, and he’s take over the world- my life, if I let him. Mercy.”

— Patricia Briggs

70. “But that was the trouble with ancient artifacts – no one really knew what they did.”

— Patricia Briggs

71. “He bit the nape of my neck and I moaned.”

— Patricia Briggs

72. “I knew he would never leave me, never let me down-because the man had never abandoned anything in his long life. If I hadn’t taken the gold rope of our bond, I knew Adam would have sat on me and hog-tied me with it. I liked that. A lot.”

— Patricia Briggs

73. “Such a small thing to cause so much trouble.”

— Patricia Briggs

74. “Never accept the blame for what evil people do. We are all responsible for our own actions.”

— Patricia Briggs

75. “It is one of those lessons that every child should learn: Don’t play with fire, sharp objects, or ancient artifacts.”

— Patricia Briggs

76. “Witches are bitches and they’ll burn your britches sure as kittens have itches if you give’ em half a chance.”

— Patricia Briggs

77. “I would never disrespect your grandmother’s rolling pin. Your old pack did everything in their power to turn you into a victim, and when that crazy wolf started for me, you still grabbed the rolling pin to defend me from him, even though you were terrified of him. I think it is the bravest thing I have ever seen. And possibly the only time anyone has tried to defend me since I reached adulthood.”

— Patricia Briggs

78. “If it looks like a hallway, feels like a hallway, and acts like a hallway – is it important to figure out that it isn’t a hallway?”

— Patricia Briggs

79. “He was like Superman, but with fangs and oddly impaired morals.”

— Patricia Briggs

80. “I thought you were dead. Stupid. As if I’d die without taking you with me.”

— Patricia Briggs

81. “Pack is for comfort when you hurt, I thought, putting my head back down. And for the first time in a long time, maybe the first time ever, I appreciated being a part of one.”

— Patricia Briggs

82. “Where does a werewolf sleep? Anywhere he wants to.”

— Patricia Briggs

83. “Some people will tell you werewolves can only shapechange under a full moon, but people also say there’s no such things as ghosts.”

— Patricia Briggs

84. “I don’t wear a cross. As a child, I’d had a bad experience with one. Besides, a crucifix was the instrument of Our Lord’s death- I don’t know why people think a torture device should be a symbol of Christ. Christ was a willing sacrifice, a lamb, not a cross for us to hang ourselves on; or at least that’s my interpretation. Maybe other people think of religion and God differently than I do.”

— Patricia Briggs

85. “I suppose we must work on being gracious and grateful until we can do for ourselves. Someday the wheel of fate will put us in a position to be of use to them, and we will remember how much easier it is to give help than it is to accept it.”

— Patricia Briggs

86. “Time was such an odd thing. One moment you could talk to someone, then suddenly, they were gone.”

— Patricia Briggs

87. “Stefan: “Indian with a dot, not a feather.”

— Patricia Briggs

88. “So in the sweltering heat of a July night, I sang a Christmas carol to a room full of fae, who had been driven out of their homelands by Christians and their cold-iron swords.”

— Patricia Briggs

89. “Over a lifetime of dealing with difficult women, I have learned it is often better to give into their demands immediately.”

— Patricia Briggs

90. “Humans, werewolves, or, apparently, vampire, it doesn’t matter; get more than three of them together and the jockeying for power begins.”

— Patricia Briggs

91. “The best way for me to protect you is to encourage you to be able to protect yourself.”

— Patricia Briggs

92. “In this dream, I wasn’t a coyote shapeshifter trying to hold a werewolf, I was Coyote’s almost daughter, and I had all the strength of the world in my arms.”

— Patricia Briggs

93. “The conflict between the creatures of Native Lore and the immigration of the European preternatural hosts is hinted at in ‘Blood Bound’ and reflects the conflicts between the human immigrants and the Indian people who were already here.”

— Patricia Briggs

94. “He stopped what he was doing and pulled out his magic phone. Okay, the phone wasn’t magic, but it does things my computer struggles with.”

— Patricia Briggs

95. “Vampire politics make the very complicated dance of manners that is werewolf protocol look like the Hokey Pokey.”

— Patricia Briggs

96. “Just as I’ve always known there are monsters in the world, monsters and things even more evil, I’ve always known that it is God who keeps evil at bay.”

— Patricia Briggs

97. “The devout belief that the world is explainable is both a terrible vulnerability and a stout shield.”

— Patricia Briggs

98. “I was going to fight vampires, and my name wasn’t Buffy – I was so screwed.”

— Patricia Briggs

99. “They came to see Glinda the Good Witch, but after midnight, they found the Wicked Witch of the West and left quaking in fear of flying monkeys.”

— Patricia Briggs

100. “Things change whether you want them to, or not – unless you are dead. Don’t hold so hard to the past that you die with it.”

— Patricia Briggs