The best ally you can have in breaking up a street fight is a grandmother.
JOE BOB BRIGGS If you hate what you're seeing, you call it sex and violence. If you like it, you call it "romance a...
JOE BOB BRIGGS Faith is like a kernel of wheat.
JOE BOB BRIGGS Almost every venerable tradition at a men's club starts out as a joke.
JOE BOB BRIGGS The conflict between the creatures of Native Lore and the immigration of the European preternatural ...
PATRICIA BRIGGS Read good books. Read bad books - and figure out why you don't like them. Then don't do it w...
PATRICIA BRIGGS For the traditional fantasies, a lot more of my research comes from reading rather than doing. I lik...
PATRICIA BRIGGS I've been a storyteller all my life. When I was in high school, I used to amuse myself by drivin...
PATRICIA BRIGGS When I write, I get glimpses into future novels.
PATRICIA BRIGGS The cool thing about writing is that there is really never a typical day. Sometimes I get a rhythm g...
PATRICIA BRIGGS My mother was a children's librarian. I remember when traditional stories were revised for moder...
PATRICIA BRIGGS When I put magic into a book - whether it's a wizard or a crusty old werewolf - I'm asking a...
PATRICIA BRIGGS I am not attempting to preserve culture, or record actual events or stories. Instead I bow my head i...
PATRICIA BRIGGS It is hard to accept being different, hard to have people avoid looking at you, and still believe in...
PATRICIA BRIGGS Any idiot can put up a website.
PATRICIA BRIGGS Some people are like Slinkies. They aren't really good for anything, but they still bring a smile to...
PATRICIA BRIGGS Trying is always enough.
PATRICIA BRIGGS Dragons and legends...It would have been difficult for any man not to want to fight beside a dragon.
PATRICIA BRIGGS A man says a lot of things in summer he doesn't mean in winter.
PATRICIA BRIGGS A man learns with age, if he is lucky.
PATRICIA BRIGGS Do your work; not just your work and no more, but a little more for the lavishing's sake -- that lit...
DEAN BRIGGS When life doesn't meet your expectations, it was important to take it with grace.
PATRICIA BRIGGS Love thy enemies, it says in the scriptures. My foster mother always added, "At the very least, you ...
PATRICIA BRIGGS Intelligent men are dangerous.
PATRICIA BRIGGS A stupid ruler is much more of a problem than an insane one.
PATRICIA BRIGGS Anger is stupid, and stupidity will kill you more surely than your opponent's blade.
PATRICIA BRIGGS Let's save tomorrow's troubles for tomorrow.
PATRICIA BRIGGS She opened her eyes and met his. The impact was so strong he was amazed that his fingers continued p...
PATRICIA BRIGGS No-pocket jeans are only slightly less irritating than thong underwear.
PATRICIA BRIGGS I think we're in the midst of putting something incredible together.
LANCE BRIGGS It's always production over technique, but if you're going to come out of your technique, make the p...
LANCE BRIGGS I came in tight and he tried to duck underneath, and I came right up under his chest. He fell back, ...
LANCE BRIGGS You'd see something and you're thinking like, 'Well, I've got to see here, even though I see the bal...
LANCE BRIGGS Everybody's fired up about what we can do.
LANCE BRIGGS Last week I was talking about wanting to finish big plays. Those are the big plays that I'm talking ...
LANCE BRIGGS Cheeses crusty, got all musty, got damp on the stone of a peach,” I agreed. He looked blank, so I ...
PATRICIA BRIGGS Bran was the only person I knew who could use words like "blackguard" and make them sound like swear...
PATRICIA BRIGGS Happiness is German engineering, Italian cooking, and Belgian chocolate.
PATRICIA BRIGGS Hard truths can be dealt with, triumphed over, but lies will destroy your soul.
PATRICIA BRIGGS A second floor window opened, and Kyle stuck his head and shoulders out so he could look down at us....
PATRICIA BRIGGS For Adam, screwed-up bonding thing or not, I’d wait forever.
“Really?” he asked in a tone...
PATRICIA BRIGGS A werewolf tossed me against a giant packing crate while I was trying to rescue a frightened young g...
PATRICIA BRIGGS Dance when the moon sings, and don't cry about troubles that haven't yet come.
PATRICIA BRIGGS Nothing says you're sorry like a dead bunny.
PATRICIA BRIGGS Some people are boys longer than others.
PATRICIA BRIGGS It is one of those lessons that every child should learn: Don't play with fire, sharp objects, or an...
PATRICIA BRIGGS Reluctantly, I pulled out my necklace and showed it to them.

Samuel frowned. The little f...
PATRICIA BRIGGS She wondered that hope was so much harder then despair.
PATRICIA BRIGGS His heart's occupied elsewhere," said Ben from behind me. "And even if it weren't he's not intereste...
PATRICIA BRIGGS One of the oddest things about being grown-up was looking back at something you thought you knew and...
PATRICIA BRIGGS Only cowards torture women.
PATRICIA BRIGGS My grandfather would have loved to have met you," he told her huskily. "He would have called you 'Sh...
PATRICIA BRIGGS Mine," he said.

Adam's eyes narrowed. "I don't think so. She is mine."

It woul...
PATRICIA BRIGGS Why is it that all cars are women?" he asked.

"Because they're fussy and demanding," ans...
PATRICIA BRIGGS Women are the bloodthirsty sex," said Ric sadly. "We get the reputation, but it is only because the ...
PATRICIA BRIGGS I don't like it when I outweigh my men.
PATRICIA BRIGGS MS. THOMPSON, it said in heavy block letters, PLEASE KEEP YOUR FELINE OFF MY PROPERTY. IF I SEE IT A...
PATRICIA BRIGGS Mercy?”

“Just a minute,” I told Adam. “I'm in the middle of a revelation.
PATRICIA BRIGGS Bear in mind, [Route 44] is a state highway, ... And people have to remember that we have to coopera...
DONALD BRIGGS Civilization is vastly overrated.
PATRICIA BRIGGS It's easier to dismiss ghosts in the daylight.
PATRICIA BRIGGS It doesn't sound like you have an incubator.
PAUL BRIGGS Survivors can't always choose their methods.
PATRICIA BRIGGS That’s a pretty lame superhero name,” I told him.

“Scooby-Doo is already taken,” ...
PATRICIA BRIGGS You should be home sleeping. What is the use of having a man in the house, if he cannot take care of...
PATRICIA BRIGGS He was like Superman, but with fangs and oddly impaired morals.
PATRICIA BRIGGS Jayson Foster was dodging and spinning around which added to his speed. Jermaine Austin seemed to do...
KENT BRIGGS Adam has always had . . . heroic tendencies.”
I touched Adam’s arm. “He’s my hero.” PATRICIA BRIGGS Earnings are a mixed bag, but it seem like tech stocks are starting to turn the corner.
DAVID BRIGGS C’est moi, c’est moi,’tis I,' I told him. It seemed appropriately melodramatic, though I didn�...
PATRICIA BRIGGS Yes," he said sincerely. "Such a one deserves peanut butter on the seat of his pants.
PATRICIA BRIGGS There are big bad wolves all over the world who tremble at the sound of his name, yet a little puny ...
PATRICIA BRIGGS She tried to imagine what Charles would do if another man came up to him and said, "You bring me joy...
PATRICIA BRIGGS If it looks like a hallway, feels like a hallway, and acts like a hallway—is it important to figur...
PATRICIA BRIGGS Mercy has this ... this uncanny ability to go where the trouble is thickest," Adam told him. He had ...
PATRICIA BRIGGS Nearly everyone was agreeable and cooperative.
TOM BRIGGS I was going to fight vampires, and my name wasn't Buffy--I was so screwed.
PATRICIA BRIGGS It just feels lousy. There's a lot of reasons not to do anything.
DAVID BRIGGS This is inexcusable! I have Shannon in great shape. We were back in the gym three days after the Mer...
SHANNON BRIGGS If we need a programmer, I just go down to engineering or the signals division. For marketing people...
CLARENCE BRIGGS This site will be a clearinghouse of information on shady affiliate networks, software that generate...
CLARENCE BRIGGS It's a straightforward integration. This is a vertical integration of really very complementary comp...
FRED BRIGGS We're heading into the typically slower summer months, and it's slow already. It's hard to imagine a...
DAVID BRIGGS Knowledge is a better weapon than a sword.
PATRICIA BRIGGS My father always said that too many words cheapened the value of a man's speech.
PATRICIA BRIGGS This world has need of song and sword.
PATRICIA BRIGGS I came in and inherited a great team, and that got me off on a great start because we were so compet...
SHANNA BRIGGS My father said that a silent person is trying to hide something.
PATRICIA BRIGGS I had outside leverage as the fullback went to the flat. I didn't think he was going to throw it. He...
LANCE BRIGGS Rumor exaggerates.
PATRICIA BRIGGS We who are dominant tend to think of that aspect of being a werewolf as rank: who is obeyed, who is ...
PATRICIA BRIGGS Anyone 60 or older can join.
BIRGIT BRIGGS I know the seniors are in great hands with Leta and Angela. Leta has worked with the seniors since 1...
BIRGIT BRIGGS The building was home to the National Guard Armory until 1976 when plans to have a civic center in t...
BIRGIT BRIGGS The best advertisement for us is people telling people. If organizers have a successful event and th...
BIRGIT BRIGGS In the last few years we have more than doubled the events that take place at the center. We average...
BIRGIT BRIGGS When I die of heart failure the next time you frighten me like that, you can put that on my gravesto...
PATRICIA BRIGGS Being a martyr is highly overrated.
PATRICIA BRIGGS Writers traditionally see themselves and are perceived as acting in the solitude of their rooms, doi...
JOHN BRIGGS The Enron news may have been enough to distract people today, or if not, then maybe kept investors t...
DAVID BRIGGS Investors were cautious to begin with this year, and the hurricanes are causing them to second-guess...
DAVID BRIGGS If she know how strongly he felt, she'd have run out the door. He wasn't used to the possessive, or ...
PATRICIA BRIGGS Mercy," he mumbled. "What the hell did you do to my French Roast?
PATRICIA BRIGGS The zinc market is going to become as tight as copper. Every speculator is buying zinc now.
STEPHEN BRIGGS Some truths are truths, no matter who says them.
PATRICIA BRIGGS The bundling of SCARI++ on the SDR-4000 delivers a commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) SDR modem platfor...
MARK BRIGGS He didn't say anything more, just waited for me to tell him what I'd been thinking. It was pure spec...
PATRICIA BRIGGS Some of the fae have an odd idea of bride send-offs," he explained "including, according to Zee, kid...
PATRICIA BRIGGS You'd tell the world what your best friend wore to sleep if you thought it made a good enough story.
PATRICIA BRIGGS I can't protect you from knowledge.
PATRICIA BRIGGS I would slay dragons for you,” he told her. “I suspect that finding an unoccupied bedroom will b...
PATRICIA BRIGGS ...The Arabs I rode herding cattle with your father in the fifties and sixties would do a full day�...
PATRICIA BRIGGS Once we started making things more difficult for them, I don't think it was a coincidence that all o...
SCOTT BRIGGS John's vision and sense of dedication to supporting, planning and executing activities that enrich h...
THOMAS BRIGGS We've got a bunch of good kids and I don't want them to get a reputation for being unruly, because t...
DONALD BRIGGS What excites me about this is that we're talking. We should have done this a long time ago. This giv...
DONALD BRIGGS It will limit the negative impacts that a development could bring to the community, ... It's a pathw...
DONALD BRIGGS We've been able to come up with a piece of legislation that is going to preserve the character of ou...
DONALD BRIGGS It's time for the elected officials to do their job,
DONALD BRIGGS This is a brilliant day,
DONALD BRIGGS They want the quickest and best route so they can make money, ... We're trying not to annoy them.
DONALD BRIGGS In downtown Manhattan, maybe five acres would be worth that much. But down here, it's a bunch of mar...
DON BRIGGS They have a lot of speed. We had trouble keeping up with them.
DON BRIGGS We had both the community and local political support, and we cleared the zoning well in advance. Bu...
DON BRIGGS Santa Cruz has three more power points than us (which is equivalent to a victory), so I expect that ...
DON BRIGGS Time was such an odd thing. One moment you could talk to someone, then suddenly, they were gone.
PATRICIA BRIGGS Do your work; not just your work and no more, but a little more for the lavishing's sake - that litt...
DEAN BRIGGS A king who trusts no man is weak.
PATRICIA BRIGGS We don't believe it bashes the military. It really does try to be balanced.
BRIGGS GAMBLIN If this had been a real situation, we would not have experienced any loss of students and that's wha...
BRIGGS GAMBLIN So in the sweltering heat of a July night, I sang a Christmas carol to a room full of fae, who had b...
PATRICIA BRIGGS What would a racist call werewolves? Wargs? She kind of liked that one, but suspected that racist ba...
PATRICIA BRIGGS I knew he would never leave me, never let me down-because the man had never abandoned anything in hi...
PATRICIA BRIGGS Christmas garland and a rock?" he said, a smile in his voice. "Why not an ornament?"

"Wol...
PATRICIA BRIGGS Damn it," I said. "I don't suppose you have any ideas on how to kill Littleton."

He smile...
PATRICIA BRIGGS One of my professors once told me that the last official act of the British monarchy was when Queen ...
PATRICIA BRIGGS Wolves eat coyotes," Gordon said[...] If he weren't an old man, I had some rude things I could have ...
PATRICIA BRIGGS I put my cell phone in my back pocket (a habit that has destroyed two phones so far) and tried to bl...
PATRICIA BRIGGS I paused to pat the truck’s hood gently in apology when someone put his hand on my shoulder.
...
PATRICIA BRIGGS You need to choose,” he told me intently. “Adam or Samuel or neither. But you can’t keep them ...
PATRICIA BRIGGS want to. Adam wasn’t angry. He wouldn’t hurt me. I let him pull the power of his pack over me li...
PATRICIA BRIGGS One, one, two, zero,” I told him through the chattering of my teeth. “It’s my birthday.
PATRICIA BRIGGS We appreciate the help you have given us so far, but your usefulness ends here.
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PATRICIA BRIGGS I grew up in Montana, where an old, unregistered rifle was worth a lot more than a new gun whose own...
PATRICIA BRIGGS A rape victim...a rape victim who fights...They've been violated, made helpless and afraid. It break...
PATRICIA BRIGGS There's something really disturbing about finding out how little you really know about something you...
PATRICIA BRIGGS If I let them all treat me like I was broken, then how was I going to convince myself I wasn’t?
PATRICIA BRIGGS When things started to get dangerous, it was important to have people who knew as much as you did. T...
PATRICIA BRIGGS Jesse must have heard me because she stuck her head out of her bedroom and then rushed over. “Can ...
PATRICIA BRIGGS It was like being leaned on by a very heavy, warm brick. A sexy brick.
PATRICIA BRIGGS It wasn't hard to follow the scent of blood to the living room where the fae had been killed. It had...
PATRICIA BRIGGS Just as I’ve always known there are monsters in the world, monsters and things even more evil, I�...
PATRICIA BRIGGS It was Adam, but he was too late. He couldn’t love me anymore. He would be so angry with me. I had...
PATRICIA BRIGGS I think I’ll just go take a shower,” I said.
It wasn’t until Samuel stiffened that I rem...
PATRICIA BRIGGS Cheeses crusty, got all musty, got damp on the stone of a peach.
PATRICIA BRIGGS He stepped back with exaggerated courtesy. But when I walked past him, he swatted my rump. Hard enou...
PATRICIA BRIGGS A cowboy, a lawyer, and a mechanic watched Queen of the Damned,” I murmured.
Warren—who ha...
PATRICIA BRIGGS She crawled,” Ben said. There were tears in his voice. That was wrong. Ben barely even tolerated m...
PATRICIA BRIGGS If you could just see your face,” she told me. “You look like a cat in a bathtub.
PATRICIA BRIGGS She sees ghosts,” said Samuel, impatient with my whining.

"I see dead people,” I dead...
PATRICIA BRIGGS The warmth of his body shouldn’t have felt good. He was angry and every muscle was tense. It was l...
PATRICIA BRIGGS It's only fair to warn you that you sealed your fate tonight. When you knew you were in trouble, you...
PATRICIA BRIGGS It's just a maturity, ... I felt like it was time to rededicate myself. I'm a big fan of classic box...
SHANNON BRIGGS Some wounds need to be pricked so they can drain. Others just need to be left alone.
PATRICIA BRIGGS I couldn't stay in that room with both men one more minute...

Even a human woman could ha...
PATRICIA BRIGGS I don't wear a cross. As a child, I'd had a bad experience with one. Besides, a crucifix was the ins...
PATRICIA BRIGGS Mercy: Then why didn't Marsilia just come herself?

Andre: Marsilia is a lady. Women do no...
PATRICIA BRIGGS The trick to staying out of trouble is to keep your nose out of other people's business.
PATRICIA BRIGGS The problem with deciding to bend the rules was trying to figure out just how far you could bend the...
PATRICIA BRIGGS Male werewolves treat their mates like beloved slaves. the thought set my back up. It was just a goo...
PATRICIA BRIGGS It is generally a bad thing when someone hunting you is polite. It means they are sure they can take...
PATRICIA BRIGGS Why is it that in all the adventure movies the heroine doesn't have to get up and go to work?
PATRICIA BRIGGS Then again, maybe you couldn't have killed me," he said, crawling out of the stairway. He moved very...
PATRICIA BRIGGS Americans in particular are oddly innocent in their faith that science holds explanations for everyt...
PATRICIA BRIGGS Warren made a noise, the first one I'd heard out of him since we'd come into the room. I'd have been...
PATRICIA BRIGGS If I ever become a serial murderer, I'll be very careful to kill people in a pattern that centres ar...
PATRICIA BRIGGS He bit the nape of my neck and I moaned.
PATRICIA BRIGGS We’d spent years as adversaries, two predators sharing territory and a certain, unwelcome attracti...
PATRICIA BRIGGS I like what you've done to your face," Ben said, tapping his eye.
PATRICIA BRIGGS I thought you couldn't make it here until morning," I said.
"I hurried.
PATRICIA BRIGGS Damn it,” I said. “I don't suppose you have any ideas on how to kill Littleton.”
He smile...
PATRICIA BRIGGS Even after all this time, I keep forgetting that heroes can be found in unlikely places and persons ...
PATRICIA BRIGGS Now, I'm not very vain. If I'd ever been, making my living covered in various grease and dirt mixtur...
PATRICIA BRIGGS A dominant wolf's desire to protect was a strong instinct--Samuel was very dominant. Give him an inc...
PATRICIA BRIGGS I think that I can count on the fingers of one hand the times you've actually said the word ‘women...
PATRICIA BRIGGS After I shut the door behind me, I heard Darryl say "of course eating him would work too.
PATRICIA BRIGGS Adam wants to know what took you so long?
"Tell him I had wild, passionate sex with a complete ...
PATRICIA BRIGGS Loneliness and fear ate at him, a loner by choice who had prided himself on his daring and courage. ...
PATRICIA BRIGGS I’ll get some more firewood,” I said, turning away from the fire. “What we have won’t last t...
PATRICIA BRIGGS People will do amazing things to ensure their survival.
PATRICIA BRIGGS Women are sneaky.
PATRICIA BRIGGS Look at Philip Morris. Its stock value was depressed for a long time on litigation risks, but after ...
DAVID BRIGGS We never stop believing,
LANCE BRIGGS My reaction was I was just relieved. I don't have to think about it anymore.
LANCE BRIGGS It's a great moment we're having here, and you are going to ruin it by talking about that? The chanc...
LANCE BRIGGS That was probably one of the games where we started to get some respect, started to get noticed a li...
LANCE BRIGGS He's the best linebacker in the league. He's making it happen all day, every day.
LANCE BRIGGS There are some who've asked us if this isn't simply part of the cost of doing business. That high a ...
CLARENCE BRIGGS Customers use these servers for everything from software development and Web design to e-commerce an...
CLARENCE BRIGGS