685 Quotes by Patricia Briggs

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.

She glanced surreptitiously at Charles, but he was eating the way he usually did – like a well-mannered starving person who wasn’t sure where his next meal with coming from.

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.

I’ve heard that Vlad the Impaler established without a doubt that having a stick up one’s ass was detrimental to one’s health. And I am very interested in keeping you healthy.

When you turn something into stone, you take out the moisture that makes most of the bulk of flesh. A really good mage could turn you into a pebble,” said the really good mage before me.

My mother was a children’s librarian. I remember when traditional stories were revised for modern audiences until they bore only a nodding acquaintance with the originals, but were released as ‘authentic Indian stories’ when they were, in fact, nothing of the kind.

Things change whether you want them to, or not – unless you are dead. Don’t hold so hard to the past that you die with it.

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.

We’ve determined that Ms. Hauptman is a potential threat to the public safety, and we are bringing her in as a murder suspect who has supernatural powers that make her too dangerous to be incarcerated in the usual ways.