Patricia Briggs Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“Evil must always be fought.”
-- Patricia Briggs

#Evil

“A man says a lot of things in summer he doesn't mean in winter.”
-- Patricia Briggs

#Summer #Mean #Winter

“Anger is stupid, and stupidity will kill you more surely than your opponent's blade.”
-- Patricia Briggs

#Stupid #Anger #Opponents

“I was going to fight vampires, and my name wasn't Buffy--I was so screwed.”
-- Patricia Briggs

#Fighting #Names #Vampire

“Love thy enemies, it says in the scriptures. My foster mother always added, "At the very least, you will be polite to them.”
-- Patricia Briggs

#Mother #Enemy #Scripture

“When life doesn't meet your expectations, it was important to take it with grace.”
-- Patricia Briggs

#Expectations #Grace #Important

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

#People #Survival

“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.”
-- Patricia Briggs

#Taken #Names #Superhero

“MS. THOMPSON, it said in heavy block letters, PLEASE KEEP YOUR FELINE OFF MY PROPERTY. IF I SEE IT AGAIN, I WILL EAT IT.”
-- Patricia Briggs

#Block #Letters #Heavy

“It's only fair to warn you that you sealed your fate tonight. When you knew you were in trouble, you came to me. That makes twice, Mercy, and twice is almost as good as a declaration. You are mine now.... Ben says you might run. If you do, I will find you and bring you back. Every time you run, Mercy. I won't force you, but. .. No more excuses, Mercy. You are mine, and I am keeping you.”
-- Patricia Briggs

#Running #Fate #Tonight

“I hope this means you'll quit asking me to kill you. It gives me indigestion.”
-- Patricia Briggs

#Mean #Giving #Asking

“A king who trusts no man is weak.”
-- Patricia Briggs

#Kings #Men #Weak

“Why is it that all cars are women?" he asked. "Because they're fussy and demanding," answered Zee. "Because if they were men, they'd sit around and complain instead of getting the job done," I told him.”
-- Patricia Briggs

#Jobs #Women #Car

“He was like Superman, but with fangs and oddly impaired morals.”
-- Patricia Briggs

#Moral

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

#Daylight #Ghost #Easier

“The only certainty life contains is death.”
-- Patricia Briggs

#Certainty

“Some people are like Slinkies.They aren't really good for anything, but they still bring a smile to my face when I push them down a flight of stairs.”
-- Patricia Briggs

#People #Faces #Slinkies

“She wondered that hope was so much harder then despair.”
-- Patricia Briggs

#Depression #Despair #Harder

“Only cowards torture women.”
-- Patricia Briggs

#Women #Coward #Torture

“Never trust a mechanic who drives new cars. They're either charging too much money for their work, or they can't keep an old car running - maybe both.”
-- Patricia Briggs

#Running #Car #Too Much

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

#Children #Men #Immortality

“Coffee or orange juice?” “Water is fine.” His eyebrows went up. “Uh-oh,” Auriele said, but she was smiling. Darryl was not. “Are you implying that my coffee is not the best in four counties? Or my fresh-squeezed orange juice is less than perfect?”
-- Patricia Briggs

#Coffee #Eyebrows #Orange

“Wizards don't all look alike.”
-- Patricia Briggs

#Looks #Wizards

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

#Thinking #Past #Sometimes

“You can't cage an eagle for long without destroying it.”
-- Patricia Briggs

#Freedom #Eagles #Long

“Dragons and legends...It would have been difficult for any man not to want to fight beside a dragon.”
-- Patricia Briggs

#Fighting #Men #Dragons

“Why is it that all cars are women? Because they're fussy and demanding.”
-- Patricia Briggs

#Car

“Hard truths can be dealt with, triumphed over, but lies will destroy your soul.”
-- Patricia Briggs

#Lying #Soul #Your Soul

“Heart turned to me, his face thought­ful. “Yes­ter­day morn­ing. Yes, that means that Daphne hadn’t been home for two days be­fore that.” He smiled at me. “You were sup­posed to be the Al­pha’s eye can­dy.” Adam laughed. “What?” I asked him. “You don’t think I’d be good eye can­dy?” I looked down at my over­alls and grease-​stained hands. I’d torn an­oth­er nail to the quick. “Hon­ey is eye can­dy,” said Ben apolo­get­ical­ly. “You’re . . . just you.” “Mine,” said Adam, edg­ing be­tween Heart and me. “Mine is what she is.”
-- Patricia Briggs

#Heart #Mean #Eye

“Anna looked at Brother Wolf. ‘I’d like to see someone try to put a radio control collar on Charles. It might be fun to watch on YouTube.”
-- Patricia Briggs

#Brother #Fun #Trying