Top 400 Patricia Briggs Quotes (2026 Update)
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201. “It is not wise to give something old and powerful something they care about. And I am very old.”

— Patricia Briggs

202. “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

203. “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

204. “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

205. “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

206. “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

207. “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

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

— Patricia Briggs

209. “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

210. “The cool thing about writing is that there is really never a typical day. Sometimes I get a rhythm going and head off to work every morning and come home at night. Sometimes I’ll write for two days straight and then be utterly blank for the next two.”

— Patricia Briggs

211. “Never run from a predator. Even the most behaved of them will have a hard time restraining themselves from chasing after a prey.”

— Patricia Briggs

212. “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

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

— Patricia Briggs

214. “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

215. “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

216. “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

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

— Patricia Briggs

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

— Patricia Briggs

219. “Life is not safe. A man might spend his whole time on earth staying safe in a basement, and in the end, he still dies like everyone else.”

— Patricia Briggs

220. “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

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

— Patricia Briggs

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

— Patricia Briggs

223. “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.”

— Patricia Briggs

224. “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

225. “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.”

— Patricia Briggs

226. “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

227. “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

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

— Patricia Briggs

229. “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

230. “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

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

— Patricia Briggs

232. “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

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

— Patricia Briggs

234. “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

235. “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

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

— Patricia Briggs

237. “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

238. “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

239. “Someday, I’m going to meet some supernatural creature who tells me everything I should know up front and in a forthright manner – but I’m not going to hold my breath.”

— Patricia Briggs

240. “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

241. “It is the way of mortals. They fling themselves at life and emerge broken.”

— Patricia Briggs

242. “He did not enjoy the sorrow, but he would not have missed the years that he and Joseph were friends, either. Such joy was worth a little sorrow.”

— Patricia Briggs

243. “When I write, I get glimpses into future novels.”

— Patricia Briggs

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

— Patricia Briggs

245. “Did you find out if they found out anything about them?” I asked. Kyle gave me a look, then busied himself making me a peanut butter and huckleberry jelly sandwich. “What really bothers me is that I understood that question. You will eat this and go to sleep, so your pronouns get their antecedents back.”

— Patricia Briggs

246. “Beauclaire, for his part, sank back in the soft material of the couch as if the thought that it would impede him should he have to move quickly never occurred to him. I’m not afraid of anyone here, his body posture said. Charles’s – relaxed, arms folded loosely, chin slightly tilted – said, You’re boring me; either fight and die – or back off.”

— Patricia Briggs

247. “Charles looked at her thoughtfully. “People talk to you,” he said. “That could be useful.”

— Patricia Briggs

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

— Patricia Briggs

249. “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

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

— Patricia Briggs