Quotes from On the Prowl

“I do love you. I think you know that, but just in case...I love you. ”
― Patricia Briggs, quote from On the Prowl

“People always wanted someone to blame, didn't they?”
― Patricia Briggs, quote from On the Prowl

“Um. Charles thinks that his wolf has chosen me as his mate."

"In less than one full day?" It did sound dumb when he said it that way.

"Yes." She couldn't keep the uncertainty out of her voice, though, and it bothered Charles. He rolled to his feet and growled softly.

"Charles also said I was an Omega wolf," she told his father. "That might have something to do with it as well."

Silence lengthened and she began to think that the cell phone might have dropped the connection. Then the Marrok laughed softly. "Oh his brother is going to tease him unmercifully about this.”
― Patricia Briggs, quote from On the Prowl

“How to put this feeling, this certainty, into something as limited as words?”
― Patricia Briggs, quote from On the Prowl

“You're so far off base this time you can't even see the base!”
― Patricia Briggs, quote from On the Prowl

“Who wants to feel everything everyone else feels all the time?”
― Patricia Briggs, quote from On the Prowl

“Humans were peculiar. They were by turns squeamish and appallingly violent.”
― Patricia Briggs, quote from On the Prowl

“Bleeding isn't optional for most of us.”
― Patricia Briggs, quote from On the Prowl

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