Top 400 Patricia Briggs Quotes (2026 Update)
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201. “Chills went down my spine. I had a degree in history. When the government moves against a segment of its own population, it is bad. Nazi bad. Genocide bad.”

— Patricia Briggs

202. “Jones is dead,” I promised. “He just doesn’t know it yet. But we are patient, we can wait until the time is ripe.”

— Patricia Briggs

203. “Scaring people is fun,” said the witch, stepping out of the shadows about ten feet from the porch.”

— Patricia Briggs

204. “There was I thinking being a shifter had its upsides. Looks like I was wrong.”

— Patricia Briggs

205. “Mmm, he rumbled into my ear. I thought that being married meant that I never go to bed hungry.”

— Patricia Briggs

206. “The Arabians might not suit you; they don’t suit everyone. They are like cats: vain, beautiful, and intelligent. But you deal well enough with Asil, who is also vain, beautiful, and intelligent.”

— Patricia Briggs

207. “Ours, said Brother Wolf. She is perfect, our soul mate, our anchor, the reason we were created. So that we could be hers.”

— Patricia Briggs

208. “A king who trusts no man is weak.”

— Patricia Briggs

209. “She is a black witch,” Charles said, equally quietly. “We have always been enemies. For right now, we are aimed at the same target; that is all. If your target is pleasure and you’re sure that’s what hers is, too, that’s fine. Just remember – a black witch doesn’t love anything but power.”

— Patricia Briggs

210. “It’s easier to be horrible if you can squash everyone who tries to stop you.”

— Patricia Briggs

211. “The problem with deciding to bend the rules was trying to figure out just how far you could bend them.”

— Patricia Briggs

212. “Sometime soon, I will deal with the fae who have offended me in such a way that others avoid annoying me for another century or two. That’s a good plan for the next few weeks, I think. Findest du nicht auch?”

— Patricia Briggs

213. “I find it somewhat reassuring that I’m not the only one who feels like I should be running around shouting, “Where’s the script? Where’s the script? If only I had a script I’d know what the freak I’m supposed to be doing.”

— Patricia Briggs

214. “Double-zap,” said Tag. “That is not a technical term, I hope,” murmured Asil. “Only the most technically advanced people can use ‘double-zap’ correctly,” Anna told Asil sotto voce. “You and I shouldn’t try it.”

— Patricia Briggs

215. “My love,” he said, his voice intent, “you are welcome to all that I am, all that I have. I would destroy the planet for you. I was even diplomatic for you, which was a bigger sacrifice. A little power drain is nothing.”

— Patricia Briggs

216. “Can you hear the silence? It’s the good kind of silence, not the silence that listens back.”

— Patricia Briggs

217. “This isn’t quite chemical castration, but it will bring your life into balance,” she said, and she was off on her sales pitch as if the phrase “chemical castration” was a common concept – and something one might consider doing to one’s husband. And she looked like such a nice, normal person.”

— Patricia Briggs

218. “But I’ve learned that there are always terrible things, and sometimes it is very important to grasp what joy and beauty you can, whenever you can.”

— Patricia Briggs

219. “It Wasn’t Hard To Follow The Scent Of Blood To The Living Room Where The Fae Had Been Killed. It Had Been A Violent Death, Perfect For Creating Ghosts.”

— Patricia Briggs

220. “The wolf wanted to bed her and claim her as his own. Being of a more cautious nature than his wolf, he would wait until he knew her a little better before deciding to court her.”

— Patricia Briggs

221. “Just then Warren’s breathing, which part of me was listening to with rapt attention, stopped. Adam heard it too, crouching as if there were an enemy in the room. Maybe there was. Death is an enemy, right?”

— Patricia Briggs

222. “There is no cash in battling evil: just the opposite in my experience.”

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223. “Anyone who offends me deserves to hear exactly how they trespassed – or needs to be lulled into a false sense of security before the sneak attack when they aren’t paying attention.”

— Patricia Briggs

224. “He gave me that lazy smile that had always had the power to make my heart beat faster. I was dismayed to see that it still worked.”

— Patricia Briggs

225. “Survivors can’t always choose their methods.”

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226. “Mercedes,” said Asil in a cheerful voice. “You are going to get me killed at last. Bran would not do it, but I believe your mate will have no trouble.”

— Patricia Briggs

227. “Maybe I shouldn’t have said anything about the finger, but it kept coming up in my thoughts. I’ve never had a finger thrown at me before. A new-and-improved addition to my creepy-hall-of-fame nightmares.”

— Patricia Briggs

228. “We know,” she whispered to him. “We who have been hurt, we know what evil looks like. We know you make us safe.”

— Patricia Briggs

229. “Charles was most comfortable by himself or, if that wasn’t possible, with his pack in the wild. Talking for hours in a crowded auditorium was not on any list of things he enjoyed – or things he was good at. At least no one had died. Yet.”

— Patricia Briggs

230. “Death is part of life,” he told her. “Without the one, it is hard to have the other.”

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231. “Baking is like washing – the results are equally temporary.”

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232. “They’re all dead,” Ruth wept, her hands in front of her face as if she could not bear what she’d seen. It reminded me oddly of the weeping angels from Doctor Who.”

— Patricia Briggs

233. “Leslie absorbed that. “If that’s so, I peg our Anna at sixteen and her husband at ten thousand and change.”

— Patricia Briggs

234. “People as old and powerful as he should never be given someone to love. For Anna he would destroy the world.”

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235. “Not that I’d really been planning on keeping the attack secret; it had just been an option I’d wanted to keep open if I could.”

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236. “I gave him a put-upon sigh. “I am not one of your pack members, Adam. I know this is difficult for you to fathom, so I’ll speak slowly: I don’t belong to you. I am under no obligation to tell you anything.”

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237. “I grew up in Montana, where an old, unregistered rifle was worth a lot more than a new gun whose ownership could be traced. Not that the gun owners in Montana are planning on committing crimes with their unregistered guns – they just don’t like the federal government knowing their every move.”

— Patricia Briggs

238. “People will do amazing things to ensure their survival.”

— Patricia Briggs

239. “Cheeky. Carry them for nine months, feed them, clothe them, and what do I get? Impertinence.”

— Patricia Briggs

240. “Love,” he said, “is always a risk, isn’t it? I’ve always thought that there were no certainties in life, but I was wrong. Love is a certainty. And love always gives more than it takes.”

— Patricia Briggs

241. “But that is the dual gift of love, isn’t it? The joy of greeting and the sorrow of good-bye.”

— Patricia Briggs

242. “Thank you for tearing Tim into small Tim bits.”

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243. “You have a real gift for getting into trouble, don’t you? That was one thing I forgot when you left the pack.” “How is any of this my fault?” I asked hotly. He sighed. “I don’t know. Does it matter whose fault it is once you’re sitting in the middle of the frying pan?” He gave me a despairing look. “And as my father used to point out, you find your way into that frying pan way too often for it to be purely accidental.”

— Patricia Briggs

244. “The hardest memory of slavery that Rialla had to bear was not the lack of freedom; it was the lack of desiring freedom.”

— Patricia Briggs

245. “Dance when the moon sings, and don’t cry about troubles that haven’t yet come.”

— Patricia Briggs

246. “Truth is without flourishes or manners and runs with a logic all its own.”

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247. “I was going to have to come up with a rank for myself besides Alpha’s mate. In the pack, I was just Mercy- but if ten more people called me the Alpha’s mate, I was going to hit someone. It sounded like a chess move.”

— Patricia Briggs

248. “I sat down in the middle. “So,” I said to Darryl, “do you think Korra is going to be as good an avatar as Aang?” “Who’s Aang?” he asked. “You started him with Korra?” I accused Jesse. “That’s not okay. It’s like reading the last chapter of the book first.”

— Patricia Briggs

249. “Like most people who own their own businesses, I work long hours that start early in the morning. So when someone calls me in the middle of the night, they’d better be dying.”

— Patricia Briggs

250. “He was a better fighter than I was, but he wasn’t faster than me. Nor was he as motivated, and I think he underestimated me. He thought he was fighting a girl with a stick when he was fighting Adam’s mate, Coyote’s daughter, armed with Lugh’s staff.”

— Patricia Briggs