Top 400 Patricia Briggs Quotes (2024 Update)
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301. “Silver was too hard to be good ammunition.”

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302. “Yes. She had picked out the tiles in the kitchen, hadn’t she? I regarded Aiden with a little more favor than I’d felt before.”

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303. “Your ghosts cannot have you, Charles. So exorcize them before I have to.”

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304. “Zealots are one-trick ponies. They love nothing so much as their own cause. Don’t get in their way without expecting to be hurt.”

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305. “I may have bought the business from him, but when we worked together, he still gave the orders. Part of it was habit, I suppose, but a larger part of it was that, though I am a good mechanic, Zee is magic. Literally and figuratively. If it weren’t for his tendency to get bored with easy stuff, he’d never have hired me. Then I’d have had to take my liberal arts degree and gotten a job at McDonald’s or Burger King like all the rest of the history majors.”

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306. “Taking out werewolves, I gather and surmise, is akin to taking out a SEAL team.”

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307. “He can stop me in my tracks, but he can’t make me do someting I don’t want to.”

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308. “The problem was that she didn’t need rescuing, except maybe from them. The force of their concern, of their knowing that she had been a victim made her feel like a victim again.”

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309. “Running from vampires, again. Still. Go me!”

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310. “No. just warning him about sleeping with dangerous things. Tigers are rare treasures – and they will eat you and not give it a second thought.”

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311. “It would have been humiliating if he hadn’t been clutching me back just as hard.”

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312. “His arm pulled her a little off balance, and paradoxically it steadied her at the same time. That was what Charles did to her heart, too. He knocked it off balance into what felt like the right position, a safe place that was still exciting, exhilarating, and terrifying.”

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313. “If I let them all treat me like I was broken, then how was I going to convince myself I wasn’t?”

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314. “If you make my children, make any child, feel bad for who they are, I will teach you why people fear mama grizzlies more than papa grizzlies.”

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315. “Coyote,” said Hopi Woman dryly, “doesn’t much worry about understanding anything, which is why he understands so much.”

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316. “Not mere luck. I am stalking Mercy. Of course I was around, because that’s what stalkers do, or so I’ve read. It’s my new hobby.”

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317. “Silence fell, and I remembered that I was supposed to be running this. It reminded me in an odd way of the time I’d had to take over my sister’s Girl Scout troop when my mother had been sick. Fourteen preteen girls, a tableful of werewolves – there were certain monstrous similarities.”

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318. “Too early to tell,” Gary said. “It doesn’t look good, but saying ‘it’s over’ before it actually is will make certain the outcome.”

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319. “Bran nodded at Charles. Charles looked at the prisoners and smiled. Asil had practiced in a mirror, trying to get that smile. His own were very good, but he hadn’t gotten quite the same “I’d rather rip you to little pieces, but my father says I can’t – yet” effect. Asil was better at the “I’m crazy, and you are about to die.”

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320. “I’ve never heard you swear before,” said Jesse, sounding a little better. “At least not like that.” “Power words. Without which mechanics the world over would be lost.”

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321. “The thought of herself as decoration was absurd.”

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322. “Adam didn’t approve of Wal-Mart.”

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323. “It’ll take years of therapy. Probably for all of us: a long uphill battle. But we’re still on the field fighting the good fight, battered and beaten though we are, and I understand just what a great gift that is.”

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324. “I expected Tad to continue teasing, but he turned grim instead. “Last time I left you alone here,” he said shortly and half-embarrassed, “you almost died. Not going to do that again anytime soon.”

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325. “This is our territory,” I said, giving him the words he needed. “We don’t allow black magic in our territory.”

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326. “Samuel is going to get you a blanket,” I told him firmly. “And a pillow. You are going to sleep for the day in my closet. Dead people don’t get to stay in my bedroom.”

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327. “Anything worth doing is worth overdoing.”

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328. “Damn it, Mercy.” He didn’t like to swear in front of women. I always counted it a personal triumph when I could make him do it.”

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329. “That swipe had more in common with a bear’s attack than a timber wolf’s. If it hit me, it could kill me with a single blow.”

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330. “And it had left me with a certain skill for managing enraged werewolves, which was a good thing, my foster father had told me often enough, since I sure had a talent for enraging them.”

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331. “The lawyer’s assistant, who was scribbling down notes, lit right up. “Magic is supposed to affect electricity like that. I’ve read that wizards can’t be in the same room with things like computers and stuff.” I knew where she’d read that. I bit my.”

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332. “There is something about having someone take care of you, even when you don’t need it – maybe especially when you don’t need it.”

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333. “He smiled, a wide, joyful expression – and oddly the fangs didn’t rob the smile of its charm. “I am at peace, Mercy,” he told me. He closed his eyes and quit moving his body. “Just like you told me. I will never be okay again.” He didn’t sound unhappy about it.”

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334. “It is generally a bad thing when someone hunting you is polite. It means they are sure they can take you anytime they want to.”

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335. “When things started to get dangerous, it was important to have people who knew as much as you did. That way, when you stupidly got yourself killed, someone would have a starting place to look for your murderer.”

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336. “Canadian hikers would be too polite to end up as bodies. Thus the bodies must not belong to random hikers.”

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337. “There was another pause, then the Marrok said in that light pleasant tone that warned everyone who knew him that all hell was about to break loose.”

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338. “People died when Bran was at his most reasonable. Some of them died horribly. All of them idiots.”

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339. “People I cared about could hurt my feels, but almost complete strangers? I could care less what they thought.”

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340. “Maia was either going to grow up to rule the world or loose a planetwide plague upon the land. Maybe both.”

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341. “I can only speak for myself,” I said. “But there are none that I have ever loved who I no longer love.”

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342. “Afterward we drove out to the Hanford Reservation and ran as a wolf and coyote through the open terrain. He didn’t have Samuel’s ability to throw off all his humanity and revel in the joy of being a wild thing. Instead, he played with the same intensity he used for everything. Which meant that when I chase him, I wasn’t really sure I wanted to catch him – and when he chased me, I felt like a rabbit.”

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343. “Dear God... Please don’t let me end up in a wheelchair again. No broken bones would be a happy bonus, but I’m not expecting you to make up for my stupidity quite so completely... Whatever happens, you don’t let that vampire make it out of here still moving. If he wins, it will be bad news. Any help you can give us will be appreciated. Amen.”

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344. “I backed the Mercedes out of the garage and waited for Gabriel to close the door and get in. “Your eyes are gold, Mercy,” said Gabriel as he slid into the front seat. “I didn’t know they did that.”

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345. “You aren’t up to dealing with werewolf business.” “Seems to me that she’s been dealing just fine,” Adam said mildly. “She killed two of them in as many days and came out of it without a scratch.” “Luck,” said Samuel. “Is it?” In my rearview mirror, I saw Adam close his eyes as he finished in almost a whisper. “Maybe so. When I was in the army, we kept lucky soldiers where they would do us the most good.” “Adam.”

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346. “Ben, one of the four werewolf guards for the night, ate a big bite, swallowed, and said in a prissier-than-usual version of his British accent, “Mercy, when you say it gnawed on the bones, was it trying to get at the marrow or just cleaning its teeth?”

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347. “The one who made that poor shadow is long dead.” The wolf in human-seeming almost glowed with power. “They have neither the learning nor the power to make him again. They would not have risked him if they had known who was here. I have made him free, my poor brother that was.”

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348. “If you don’t stop playing with that dress, I’m going to rip it right off of you, and we won’t be heading for dinner.”

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349. “I’ll remember your words,” he told her with returned seriousness, though he pictured Anna taking her grandmother’s rolling pin after the ghosts who haunted him, and it made him want to... smirk again.”

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350. “Yes, sir,” she said, clearly not believing him. He reminded himself that a man’s word didn’t count for much in this modern day.”

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