Top 400 Patricia Briggs Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “Don’t lick the guests, darling. Bad manners.”

— Patricia Briggs

102. “Knowing someone desires you is the greatest aphrodisiac.”

— Patricia Briggs

103. “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

104. “Bran was stripping her futon down to the bare mattress when she entered her apartment. It was sort of like watching the president mowing the White House lawn or taking out the trash.”

— Patricia Briggs

105. “Paranoia: the gift of the survivor and the burden of the overtired, stressed, and terrified...”

— Patricia Briggs

106. “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

107. “Leslie had learned two valuable things about the fae that day. They were powerful and charming – and they ate children and puppies.”

— Patricia Briggs

108. “See that’s the thing about secrets. All you have to do is tell one person – and suddenly everyone knows.”

— Patricia Briggs

109. “A man who will risk nothing for love is not a man.”

— Patricia Briggs

110. “Tim was dead. And he’s always been a loser. I’d be damned if I was going to be the victim of a loser – or anyone else.”

— Patricia Briggs

111. “Being a martyr is highly overrated.”

— Patricia Briggs

112. “You can feed your wallet, or you can feed your soul, but you seldom can do both at the same time.”

— Patricia Briggs

113. “Mercy might be mated to Adam, but to his wolf she would always belong to Bran. Would always be his little coyote, who was tough and defiant, raised by a good friend because Bran couldn’t trust his mate with someone he cared about who was more fragile than his grown sons.”

— Patricia Briggs

114. “Fire is a powerful thing. It cleanses as it destroys- and it brings light to darkness.”

— Patricia Briggs

115. “Don’t try threatening an Alpha. They don’t like it.”

— Patricia Briggs

116. “I can’t protect you from knowledge.”

— Patricia Briggs

117. “Then he’d come back home and found out that war didn’t cause fear- love did.”

— Patricia Briggs

118. “Fear makes idiots out of us all, at some time or other.”

— Patricia Briggs

119. “Death isn’t a tragedy to God, only to those left behind.”

— Patricia Briggs

120. “She wondered that hope was so much harder then despair.”

— Patricia Briggs

121. “That, my dear uncultured wolf, is a Charlie Russell – cowboy turned artist. Without him, Montana’s history would just be a footnote in a Zane Grey novel.”

— Patricia Briggs

122. “I used my history degree about twice a year whether I needed to or not.”

— Patricia Briggs

123. “New rules. If you are smart enough to live, you won’t hit Charles’s mate in front of his father.”

— Patricia Briggs

124. “This was not a man who wanted to give up his mate. This was a man trying to do the honorable thing – and give her a choice, no matter hiw much it cost him.”

— Patricia Briggs

125. “Usually the people I do know are sufficient to spawn any number of nightmares without inventing any.”

— Patricia Briggs

126. “My mother once told me that you had to trust that the first thing out of a person’s mouth was the truth. After they have a chance to think about it, they’ll change what they say to be more socially acceptable, something they think you’ll be happier with, something they think will get the results they want.”

— Patricia Briggs

127. “She understood his passion because she felt the same way: as if nothing was more important than the touch of her skin to his, as if she’d die if he left her.”

— Patricia Briggs

128. “If there was such evil in the world, was it possible that there was good, too?”

— Patricia Briggs

129. “Scars do not bother me. They are the laurels of the survivor.”

— Patricia Briggs

130. “Male werewolves treat their mates like beloved slaves. the thought set my back up. It was just a good thing I wasn’t a werewolf or there would be a slave rebellion.”

— Patricia Briggs

131. “Over the years, she’d learned not to question him to closely – mostly because he wouldn’t answer her.”

— Patricia Briggs

132. “Lugh’s walking stick ate the Gray Lord’s spell, and in doing so, it died. To save me.”

— Patricia Briggs

133. “Charles could care less about shoes – and he suspected he wasn’t alone among men in his feelings. Shoe, no shoe, he didn’t care. Naked was good, though over the past couple of weeks he was beginning to think that dressed in his clothes was a decent second best.”

— Patricia Briggs

134. “I didn’t like anyone except me having their hands all over him. There had been possession in Wolf’s touch, and Adam belonged to me.”

— Patricia Briggs

135. “There is something incredibly arousing about being wanted. I pulled my hand back and sucked in a deep breath. “Adam,” I said.”

— Patricia Briggs

136. “The main thing to remember is that making love is at onces the silliest and the most sacred act humans can perform.”

— Patricia Briggs

137. “Trouble seems to follow me around, waiting to club me with a tire iron.”

— Patricia Briggs

138. “Bran was the only person I knew who could use words like “blackguard” and make them sound like swear words-but then he could have said “bunny rabbit” in that tone of voice and weaken my spine with the same shiver of fear.”

— Patricia Briggs

139. “Some truths are truths, no matter who says them.”

— Patricia Briggs

140. “Even after all this time, I keep forgetting that heroes can be found in unlikely places and persons – like mechanics who can turn into coyotes.”

— Patricia Briggs

141. “Touch is better than any word.”

— Patricia Briggs

142. “Death is not such a bad thing. What would be a bad thing would be living without challenges. Without knowing defeat, we cannot know what victory is. There is no life without death.”

— Patricia Briggs

143. “A man learns with age, if he is lucky.”

— Patricia Briggs

144. “Americans in particular are oddly innocent in their faith that science holds explanations for everything.”

— Patricia Briggs

145. “Why the rolling pin and not a knife?” he asked, his voice raspy with the need for action. She looked at him for the first time since she’d seen his face on the stairs. “A knife wouldn’t even slow him down, but bones take time to heal.” He liked that. Who’d have thought he’d get turned on by a woman with a rolling pin? “All right,” he said. “All right.”

— Patricia Briggs

146. “Wizards don’t all look alike.”

— Patricia Briggs

147. “No-pocket jeans are only slightly less irritating than thong underwear.”

— Patricia Briggs

148. “You need to understand something,” she said intently. “Charles is my husband. You can’t have him. Mine. Not yours. There are lots of nice, unattachment men out there, I’m sure. Pick one of them and you might live longer.” Then her body relaxed and her voice regained its usual cheeriness. “Thank you for your time, Ms. Newman.”

— Patricia Briggs

149. “I don’t like it when I outweigh my men.”

— Patricia Briggs

150. “Stupid young girls who get caught alone in the forest fall prey to anything that crosses their paths, be the beast animal, human or shapeshifter.”

— Patricia Briggs