Top 400 Patricia Briggs Quotes (2024 Update)
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201. “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

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

— Patricia Briggs

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

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

— Patricia Briggs

206. “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

207. “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

208. “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

209. “It is not wise,” Beauclaire said, his voice clipped, and somewhere in the vowels Anna heard an accent not too far from Bran’s when he was angered. “It is not wise to give something old and powerful something they care about. And I am very old.”

— Patricia Briggs

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

— Patricia Briggs

211. “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

212. “Sometimes when the wind is still and the cold is upon us, the quiet is so deep you can feel it in your bones.”

— Patricia Briggs

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

— Patricia Briggs

214. “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

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

— Patricia Briggs

216. “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

217. “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

218. “It is not wise to give something old and powerful something they care about. And I am very old.”

— Patricia Briggs

219. “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

220. “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

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

— Patricia Briggs

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

— Patricia Briggs

223. “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

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

— Patricia Briggs

225. “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

226. “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

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

— Patricia Briggs

228. “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

229. “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

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

— Patricia Briggs

231. “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

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

— Patricia Briggs

233. “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

234. “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

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. “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

238. “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

239. “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

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

— Patricia Briggs

241. “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

242. “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

243. “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

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

— Patricia Briggs

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

— Patricia Briggs

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

— Patricia Briggs

247. “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

248. “Some people are like Slinkies. They aren’t really good for anything, but they still bring a smile to my face when I push them down a flight of stairs.”

— Patricia Briggs

249. “I was talking cannibalism, not romance.”

— Patricia Briggs

250. “I blew out a breath, took a couple steps back, and flopped in one of the battered chairs that line the wall, trying, with my casual pose, to defuse the situation. “Adam, I don’t have a sense to be afraid of Sam in the state he’s in now. I don’t know why you think I’d be smart enough to be afraid of you.”

— Patricia Briggs