Patricia Briggs цитаты

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“My father always said that too many words cheapened the value of a man's speech.”

“People who know other people’s secrets can’t afford to do things that impair their ability to control their mouths.”

“There are big bad wolves all over the world who tremble at the sound of his name, yet a little puny coyote girl peanut-buttered the seat of Bran Cornick’s car because he told her that she should wear a dress to perform for the pack.”

“To make great art, you had to expose your soul, and some things should be left safely in the dark.”

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

“I would slay dragons for you,” he told her. “I suspect that finding an unoccupied bedroom will be easier.”

“Being a martyr is highly overrated.”

“It's easier to dismiss ghosts in the daylight.”

“Don't make light of any man's pain.”

“Such a small thing to cause so much trouble.”

“You will eat this and go to sleep, so your pronouns get their antecedents back.”

“Werewolf games," Mercy said solemnly, "play for keeps, or go home." She was so cute sometimes it made Adam's heart hurt.”

“A man's immortality can be found in his children.”

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

“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.”

“Coyote never loses. Because I change the rules of the games my enemies play. What are the rules of your game?”

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

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

“My will broke at the sound of his voice, and my head turned
with as much inevitability as a sunflower turning its face to
the sun.”

“Mercy," he said,"in a fair fight between near equals, I'll back you every time. It's the demons, vampires, and river devils I worry about, and I'm working on that.”

“He had lived a very long time, and only since he gained Anna had he learned to fear. He’d discovered that he had never been brave before—just indifferent. She had taught him that to be brave, you have to fear losing something.”

“Sometimes I think I live more closely to the past than the present.”

“I can't protect you from knowledge.”

“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.”

“Cheeses crusty, got all musty, got damp on the stone of a peach.”

“My father said that a silent person is trying to hide something.”

“Obstreperous, ‘huh,” said Tad. “I see you’ve been using that Big Word of the Day calendar I got you last Christmas.”

“That is irrefragable,” I told him solemnly.”

“A dominant wolf's desire to protect was a strong instinct--Samuel was very dominant. Give him an inch, and he'd take over the world--my life, if I let him." ~Mercy”

“Now, I'm not very vain. If I'd ever been, making my living covered in various grease and dirt mixtures would have cured me quickly. Still, I wasn't up to facing two sexy men when I had one eye swollen mostly shut and half of my face black and blue.”