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I feel like I'm lost in an anime movie" I said, as Coyote picked the thing up. "One of the tentacle-monster ones." Most of them were X-rated and ended up with a lot of dead people.

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Anime, People, Monsters

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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.

Patricia Briggs

Past, Want, Things Change

Patricia Briggs (2011). “River Marked”, p.173, Penguin

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Charles could care less about shoes - and he suspected he wasn't alone among men in his feelings. Shoe, no shoe, he didn't care. Naked was good, though over the past couple of weeks he was beginning to think that dressed in his clothes was a decent second best.

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Couple, Past, Men

Patricia Briggs (2009). “Hunting Ground”, p.91, Penguin

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I used my history degree about twice a year whether I needed to or not.

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Years, Degrees, Used

Patricia Briggs (2011). “River Marked”, p.159, Penguin

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

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Iron, Waiting, Clubs

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It was complicated. I understood it, mostly, but I had to think a little sideways to do it.

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Thinking, Littles, Complicated

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But you can't marry someone to fix him, even if you love them.

Patricia Briggs

Ifs

Patricia Briggs (2009). “Bone Crossed”, p.33, Penguin

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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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Giving Up, Home, Sleep

Patricia Briggs (2011). “The Mercy Thompson Collection”, p.307, Penguin

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When is the last time you were a tourist?” she asked archly. He just looked at her. Charles, she had to agree, was not tourist material. “Right,” Anna told him. “Buck up. You might even enjoy it.” “You might as well have ‘hapless victim’ tattooed across your forehead,” he muttered.

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Tourists, Bucks, Might

Patricia Briggs (2012). “Fair Game”, p.51, Penguin

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He can stop me in my tracks, but he can't make me do someting I don't want to

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Track, Want

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My foster mother always laughed and said it was his reputation for knowing everything that allowed for him to appear infallible: all he had to do was walk through the room and see who looked guiltiest when they saw him. Maybe she was right, but I tried looking innocent the next time, and it didn't work.

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Mother, Knowing Everything, Rooms

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Zealots are like one track-pony. Don't get in their way without expecting to get hurt.

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Hurt, Track, Ponies

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Charles preferred his deer to taste like meat and his pancakes to look like pancakes. Brother Wolf thought he was too picky. Brother Wolf was probably right.

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Brother, Meat, Looks

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

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Never accept the blame for what evil people do. We are all responsible for our own actions.

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Evil People, Action, Blame

Patricia Briggs (2012). “Fair Game”, p.147, Penguin

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His brother maintained that what sent people backing away was neither his size nor his mother's blood, but solely the expression on his face. To test Samuel's theory, Charles had tried smiling - and then solemnly reported to Samuel that he had been mistaken. When Charles smiled, he told Samuel, people just ran faster.

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Mother, Brother, Expression

Patricia Briggs (2012). “Fair Game”, p.34, Penguin

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Your woman tells me you will hunt me down and eat my marrow while I live." "Did she?" Charles looked at her, and she saw the approval in his face. She doubted anyone else would have read anything at all. His voice was a caress, just for her. "Would you like that, love?

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Voice, Approval, Down And

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

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Asil left Bran alone with his thoughts then, because if he stayed, Bran would argue with him. This way, Bran would have no one to argue with but himself. And Asil had always credited Bran with the ability to be persuasive.

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Way, Arguing, Persuasive

Patricia Briggs (2012). “Fair Game”, p.21, Penguin

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Asil has appointed himself my guardian?" asked Charles softly. Asil was overstepping himself. "He was bored, he told me," said his father. He gave Charles a small smile. "I have given him a job so he doesn’t get bored again.

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Jobs, Father, Bored

Patricia Briggs (2012). “Fair Game”, p.36, Penguin

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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.

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Long, Brave, Taught

Patricia Briggs (2012). “Fair Game”, p.116, Penguin

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People as old and powerful as he should never be given someone to love. For Anna he would destroy the world.

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Powerful, People, World

Patricia Briggs (2012). “Fair Game”, p.116, Penguin

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She tried to imagine what Charles would do if another man came up to him and said, "You bring me joy.

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Men, Joy, Imagine

Patricia Briggs (2009). “Hunting Ground”, p.119, Penguin

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He loved her beyond all reason and didn't expect her to love him back. He was just waiting for her to wise up.

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Wise, Waiting, Reason

Patricia Briggs (2009). “Hunting Ground”, p.47, Penguin

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Apparently deciding Charles’s brief introduction wasn’t good enough, his brother reintroduced himself. “Dr. Samuel Cornick, elder brother and tormentor. Very nice to meet you, Anna—

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Brother, Nice, Drs

Patricia Briggs (2008). “Cry Wolf”, p.59, Penguin

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Samuel laughed out loud. "You still haven't figured it out, have you, Mercy? He never was mad about the car. He was the first one at the scene of the accident. He thought you'd killed yourself. We all did. That was a pretty spectacular wreck.

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Mad, Car, Wrecks

Patricia Briggs (2009). “Bone Crossed”, p.77, Penguin

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"Can't sleep with a dead man in my closet." "You killed someone?" asked Ben with interest.

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Sleep, Men, Mercy

"Blood Bound". Book by Patricia Briggs, January 30, 2007.

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