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• His grandfather had often told him that he tried too hard to move trees when a wiser man would walk around them.

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  Moving, Men, Tree

  Patricia Briggs (2009). “Hunting Ground”, p.17, Penguin

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• He'd woken up after flying from Boston to Montana to find his da cooking breakfast for them: sausage and pancakes shaped like deer. It wasn't just any deer, either - they looked like Bambi from the disney cartoon. Charles didn't want to know how his father had managed that

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  Father, Boston, Flying

  Patricia Briggs (2012). “Fair Game”, p.184, Penguin

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• I narrowed my eyes at him. "Stuff that. I'll write a doctoral thesis. Then I can go do what most of the other people with doctoral degrees in anthropology do." "What's that?" asked Calvin. "You don't need to encourage her," said Adam seriously, but his eyes laughed at me. "The same thing that people with degrees in history do," I said. "Fix cars or serve frnech fries and bad hamburgers.

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  Writing, Eye, People

  Patricia Briggs (2011). “River Marked”, p.104, Penguin

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• Women are the bloodthirsty sex," said Ric sadly. "We get the reputation, but it is only because the women stand behind us, and say, Kill it. Squish it.

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  Sex, Women, Reputation

  Patricia Briggs (2009). “Hunting Ground”, p.130, Penguin

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• You forgot the ‘my precious,’” Anna said dryly. “If you want to act like a freaking nutcase, you have to do it right.

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  Want, Anna, Said

  Patricia Briggs (2012). “Fair Game”, p.89, Penguin

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• Truth is without flourishes or manners and runs with a logic all its own.

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  Running, Logic, Truth Is

  Patricia Briggs (2011). “The Mercy Thompson Collection”, p.1196, Penguin

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• Are you going to tell me what that was about?” Adam asked as we went back upstairs. “Sometime,” I told him. “When we're telling ghost stories around a campfire, and I want to scare you.

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  Ghost Stories, Scare, Want

  Patricia Briggs (2009). “Bone Crossed”, p.208, Penguin

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• I suppose we must work on being gracious and grateful until we can do for ourselves. Someday the wheel of fate will put us in a position to be of use to them, and we will remember how much easier it is to give help than it is to accept it.

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  Grateful, Fate, Giving

  Patricia Briggs (2011). “River Marked”, p.212, Penguin

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• Mercy?” “Just a minute,” I told Adam. “I'm in the middle of a revelation.

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  Mercy, Revelations, Adam

  Patricia Briggs (2009). “Bone Crossed”, p.162, Penguin

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• She'd never have allowed herself to be held by anything as mundane as a few bars and a reinforced door

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  Doors, Bars, Mundane

  Patricia Briggs (2008). “Cry Wolf”, p.15, Penguin

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• I am not attempting to preserve culture, or record actual events or stories. Instead I bow my head in gratitude to those storytellers who have gone before and paved a way for me play in their stomping grounds. Doubtless those who want to be offended, will - allowing me to make them happy, too, which pleases me as much as it pleases them.

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  Gratitude, Please Me, Play

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• This world has need of song and sword.

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  Song, Needs, World

  Patricia Briggs (2002). “Dragon Bones”, p.133, Penguin

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• Want to play some Battleship?” I wasn’t leaving him alone with that thing in there. Chad armed himself with a notebook, and we went to war. Historically, war has often been used as a distraction for problems at home.

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  Notebook, War, Home

  Patricia Briggs (2011). “The Mercy Thompson Collection”, p.1106, Penguin

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• A king who trusts no man is weak.

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  Kings, Men, Weak

  Patricia Briggs (2002). “Dragon Blood”, p.199, Penguin

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• That’s a pretty lame superhero name,” I told him. “Scooby-Doo is already taken,” he said with dignity. “Anything else sounds lame in comparison.

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  Taken, Names, Superhero

  Patricia Briggs (2009). “Bone Crossed”, p.112, Penguin

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

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  Sleep, Pronouns, Going To Sleep

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• Tis the gift to be gentle, ’tis the gift to be fair, ’Tis the gift to wake and breathe the morning air, To walk every day in the path that we choose, Is the gift that we pray we will never never lose.

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  Morning, Air, Path

  Patricia Briggs (2008). “Cry Wolf”, p.54, Penguin

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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 you write. If you are a science fiction or fantasy writer, going to conventions and attending panels is very useful.

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  Book, Writing, Fiction

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• Don’t lick the guests, darling. Bad manners.

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  Guests, Manners, Darling

  Patricia Briggs (2006). “Moon Called”, p.170, Penguin

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• When I put magic into a book - whether it's a wizard or a crusty old werewolf - I'm asking a reader to swallow a huge leap that is counter to everything he or she knows. An extra big helping of reality makes that leap go down a lot easier.

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  Book, Reality, Magic

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• I jerked my chin toward Frost’s body. ‘All that is required for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing.’ Hao said, “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.” Half-naked, covered with the same filth we all were, he still gave the impression of being in control of himself and his environment.

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  Men, Said Life, Evil

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• I knew he would never leave me, never let me down-because the man had never abandoned anything in his long life. If I hadn’t taken the gold rope of our bond, I knew Adam would have sat on me and hog-tied me with it. I liked that. A lot.

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  Taken, Men, Long

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• All life is rife with possibilities. Seeds have possibilities, but all their tomorrows are caught by the patterning of their life cycle. Animals have possibilities that are greater than that of a fir tree or a blade of grass. Still, though, for most animals, the pattern of instinct, the patterns of their lives, are very strong. Humanity has a far greater range of possibilities, especially the very young. Who will children grow up to be? Who will they marry, what will they believe, what will they create? Creation is a very powerful seed of possibility.

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  Strong, Children, Growing Up

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• It was Adam, but he was too late. He couldn’t love me anymore. He would be so angry with me. I had to hide. He didn’t love me so he might hurt me when he was angry. When he calmed down, that would hurt him. I didn’t want him hurting because of me. There was nowhere for a person to hide. So I wouldn’t be a person. My eyes fell on the shelves that lined the far back corner. A coyote could hide there.

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  Hurt, Eye, Coyotes

  Patricia Briggs (2010). “Iron Kissed: Mercy Thompson”, p.148, Hachette UK

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• Adam has always had . . . heroic tendencies.” I touched Adam’s arm. “He’s my hero.” There was another pause. . . “That is the most romantic thing I’ve ever heard you say,” Bran said. “Be careful, Adam, or you’ll turn her into a real girl.” Adam looked at me. “I like her just the way she is, Bran.” And he meant it, greasy overalls, broken fingernails, and all.

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  Girl, Real, Hero

  Patricia Briggs (2010). “Silver Borne”, p.75, Penguin

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