“One of the oddest things about being grown-up was looking back at something you thought you knew and finding out the truth of it was completely different from what you had always believed.”
― Patricia Briggs, quote from Bone Crossed
“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, quote from Bone Crossed
“Mercy," said my mother thoughtfully, "you never told me your werewolf neighbor was quite that hot.”
― Patricia Briggs, quote from Bone Crossed
“Stefan: "Indian with a dot, not a feather.”
― Patricia Briggs, quote from Bone Crossed
“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.”
― Patricia Briggs, quote from Bone Crossed
“Thank you, Adam,” I told him. “Thank you for tearing Tim into small Tim bits. Thank you for forcing me to drink one last cup of fairy bug-juice so I could have use of both of my arms. Thank you for being there, for putting up with me.” By that point I wasn’t laughing anymore. “Thank you for keeping me from being another of Stefan’s sheep—I’ll take pack over that any day. Thank you for making the tough calls, for giving me time.” I stood up and walked to him, leaning against him and pressing my face against his shoulder.
“Thank you for loving me.”
His arms closed around me, pressing flesh painfully hard against bone. Love hurts like that sometimes.”
― Patricia Briggs, quote from Bone Crossed
“He was obviously dead. But since he was a vampire that wasn't as hopeless a thing as it might have been.”
― Patricia Briggs, quote from Bone Crossed
“She gave Samuel a stern look. "Now, I don't know what's going on between you and my daughter and Adam Hauptman—”
“Neither do we,” I muttered.
Samuel grinned. “We have it pretty well worked out as far as the sex goes—Adam gets it—someday—and I don’t. But the rest is still up for negotiation.”
“Samuel Cornick,” I sputtered in disbelief. “That is my mother.”
― Patricia Briggs, quote from Bone Crossed
“Hey, Adam,” I said.
I thought you’d want to know that Warren and Darryl made it out of the vampire den alive.”
I sucked in my breath. “You didn’t actually agree to their meeting on Marsilia’s grounds?”
He laughed. “No, it just sounded better than saying they made it out of Denny’s alive. It might not be romantic, but it’s open all night and set in the middle of a brightly lit parking lot with no dark places for skulking parties to ambush from.”
― Patricia Briggs, quote from Bone Crossed
“Mercy?”
“Just a minute,” I told Adam. “I'm in the middle of a revelation.”
― Patricia Briggs, quote from Bone Crossed
“People who know other people’s secrets can’t afford to do things that impair their ability to control their mouths.”
― Patricia Briggs, quote from Bone Crossed
“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.”
― Patricia Briggs, quote from Bone Crossed
“Yes,” I told him. “I think the guy playing the Pirate King was awesome.”
He stopped where he was.
“What?” I asked, frowning at the big smile on his face.
“I didn’t say I liked the Pirate King,” he told me.
“Oh.” I closed my eyes—and there he was. A warm, edgy presence right on the edge of my perception. When I opened my eyes, he was standing right in front of me.
“Cool,” I told him. “You’re back.”
He kissed me leisurely. When he was finished, I was more than ready to head home. Fast.
“You make me laugh,” he told me seriously.”
― Patricia Briggs, quote from Bone Crossed
“I give you Mercedes Athena Thompson, our newest member."
Much awkwardness ensued.”
― Patricia Briggs, quote from Bone Crossed
“I was in the middle of a dream about garbage cans and frogs - don't ask, and I won't tell.”
― Patricia Briggs, quote from Bone Crossed
“But you can't marry someone to fix him, even if you love them.”
― Patricia Briggs, quote from Bone Crossed
“We are none of us perfect, and...we learn to take these imperfections and make them only a small part of who we are”
― Patricia Briggs, quote from Bone Crossed
“I don’t know who you think you are” — my mother’s voice was low and dangerous — “but if you don’t get out of my way right this instant, it won’t matter.”
Adam was the Alpha werewolf in charge of the local pack. He was tough. He could be mean when he had to — and he wouldn’t stand a chance against my mom.”
― Patricia Briggs, quote from Bone Crossed
“So you didn’t have any reason to be so mad I wrecked the car,” I said, triumphantly.
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.”
I started to say something and found I couldn’t. The first thing I’d seen after hitting the tree was the Marrok’s snarling face. I’d never seen him that angry — and I’d done a lot, from time to time, to inspire his rage.”
― Patricia Briggs, quote from Bone Crossed
“There was I thinking being a shifter had its upsides. Looks like I was wrong.”
― Patricia Briggs, quote from Bone Crossed
“Truth is without flourishes or manners and runs with a logic all its own.”
― Patricia Briggs, quote from Bone Crossed
“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.”
― Patricia Briggs, quote from Bone Crossed
“Only you could go to Spokane and get bitten by the one vampire in the whole city
Adam to Mercy”
― Patricia Briggs, quote from Bone Crossed
“Knowing someone desires you is the greatest aphrodisiac”
― Patricia Briggs, quote from Bone Crossed
“If you don't stop playing with that dress, I'm going to rip it right off of you, and we won't be heading for dinner.”
― Patricia Briggs, quote from Bone Crossed
“My mother raised her eyebrow, and murmured, “And to think I was always worried that you didn’t have any friends. I suppose I should have been counting my blessings.”
― Patricia Briggs, quote from Bone Crossed
“Fear is a good thing. It teaches you not to make the same mistake twice. You counter it with knowledge.
- Bran”
― Patricia Briggs, quote from Bone Crossed
“Staying in that house alone didn't appeal to me - some ghost hunter I was. Nothing had happened, and I was already jumpy.”
― Patricia Briggs, quote from Bone Crossed
“[The graffiti] had a sort of Christmassy look to it. The green paint tended to be short top to bottom but long front site to side. The red paint was fat and closed up. It sort of looked like garlands with red balls hanging down. There was even "Ho, ho, ho" if you skipped around a little and deleted an "e" on the last "ho". Our green painter had a limited vocabulary and occasionally mixed up a professional working woman with a garden implement.”
― Patricia Briggs, quote from Bone Crossed
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“He lived within himself, nourished by his own substance, like some torpid creature which hibernates in caves. Solitude had reacted upon his brain like a narcotic. After having strained and enervated it, his mind had fallen victim to a sluggishness which annihilated his plans, broke his will power and invoked a cortège of vague reveries to which he passively submitted.
The confused medley of meditations on art and literature in which he had indulged since his isolation, as a dam to bar the current of old memories, had been rudely swept away, and the onrushing, irresistible wave crashed into the present and future, submerging everything beneath the blanket of the past, filling his mind with an immensity of sorrow, on whose surface floated, like futile wreckage, absurd trifles and dull episodes of his life.”
― Joris-Karl Huysmans, quote from Against Nature
“Consider this a warning. Liars will lie, and continue to do so, even beyond being caught out. They will lie, and in time, such liars will convince themselves, will in all self-righteousness divest the liars of culpability.”
― Steven Erikson, quote from Reaper's Gale
“I no longer think I lack judgment about men. I will never again say my instincts are poor, no sir, because how do I keep finding this same guy over and over? I am beginning to think I have a very keen sense of judgment, only it would seem that it is on somebody else’s side.”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, quote from Pay It Forward
“NOBREZA SILENCIOSA. SILENT NOBILITY. It is a mistake to believe that the crucial moments of a life when its habitual direction changes forever must be loud and shrill dramatics, washed away by fierce internal surges. This is a kitschy fairy tale started by boozing journalists, flashbulb-seeking filmmakers and authors whose minds look like tabloids. In truth, the dramatics of a life-determining experience are often unbelievably soft. It has so little akin to the bang, the flash, of the volcanic eruption that, at the moment it is made, the experience is often not even noticed. When it deploys its revolutionary effect and plunges a life into a brand-new light giving it a brand-new melody, it does that silently and in this wonderful silence resides its special nobility.”
― Pascal Mercier, quote from Night Train to Lisbon
“God, it drives me crazy when I know exactly what I want and I can't find it anywhere! It's like does anybody want my money!? I mean what the fuck!?”
― Daniel Clowes, quote from Ghost World
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