"You should be home sleeping. What is the……" — Patricia Briggs
"You should be home sleeping. What is the use of having a man in the house, if he cannot take care of you for a while?” “Mmm,” I said. “I give up. What's the use of having a man in the house?"
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285 Quotes by Patricia Briggs
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Women are the bloodthirsty sex," said Ric sadly. "We get the reputation, but it is only because the women stand…
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Humans, werewolves, or, apparently, vampire, it doesn't matter; get more than three of them together and the jockeying for power…
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The devout belief that the world is explainable is both a terrible vulnerability and a stout shield.
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During my last year of college I wrote the same ten pages over and over again. Those ten pages became…
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My mother was a children's librarian. I remember when traditional stories were revised for modern audiences until they bore only…
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When I write, I get glimpses into future novels.
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For the traditional fantasies, a lot more of my research comes from reading rather than doing. I like my worlds…
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I am not attempting to preserve culture, or record actual events or stories. Instead I bow my head in gratitude…
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I've been a storyteller all my life. When I was in high school, I used to amuse myself by driving…
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Read good books. Read bad books - and figure out why you don't like them. Then don't do it when…
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Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, may be drawn…
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You can take a Jew out of a shtetl, but you cannot take a shtetl out of a Jew.
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The film industry is about saying 'no' to people, and inherently you cannot take 'no' for an answer.
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After all, the seeds of depression cannot take root in a grateful heart.
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[Believers] have joy and comfort-that joy that angels cannot give, and devils cannot take.
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There is no fortune so strong that money cannot take it.
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Two may talk and one may hear, but three cannot take part in a conversation of the most sincere and…
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If you love a person, by and by the person becomes the door to the whole. But one has to…
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We cannot take one step in geology without drawing upon the fathomless stores of by-gone time.
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