Chayna Briggs Quotes

#1. Love thy enemies, it says in the scriptures. My foster mother always added, At the very least, you will be polite to them. #Quote by Patricia Briggs

#2. Intuitives tend to define intelligence as "quickness of understanding" and so prejudge the case in their own favor, for intuition is very quick. #Quote by Isabel Briggs Myers

#3. I only knew that Adam was hurt, and I wasn't there to make him safe. #Quote by Patricia Briggs

#4. If there was such evil in the world, was it possible that there was good, too? #Quote by Patricia Briggs

#5. Sometimes the most interesting part of the conversation with someone who can't lie is the questions they don't answer. #Quote by Patricia Briggs

#6. Someone knocked on the back door. He push back the chair and had to pause. The wolf was angry that someone had breached his sanctuary. Not even his pack had been brave enough the past few days to approch him in his home.
By the time he stalked into the kitchen, he had it mostly under control. He jerked open the back door and expect to see one of his wolves. But it was Mercy.
She didn't look cheerful - but then, she seldom did when she had to come over and talk to him. She was tough and independent and not at all happy to have him interfere in any way with that independence. It had been a long time since someone had bossed him around the way she did - and he liked it. More than a wolf who'd been Alpha for twenty years ought to like it.
She smelled of burnt car oil, Jasmine from the shampoo she'd been using that month, and chocolate. Or maybe that last was the cookies on the plate she handed him.
"Here," she said stiffly. And he realize it was shyness in the corner of her mouth. "Chocolate usually helps me regain my balance when life kicks me in the teeth."
She didn't wait for him to say anything, just turned around and walked back to her house.
He took the cookies back to the office with him. After a few minutes, he ate one. Chocolate, thick and dark, spread across his tongue, it's bitterness alleviated by a sinfull amount of brown sugar and vanilla. He'd forgotten to eat and hadn't realized it.
But it wasn't the chocolate or the food #Quote by Patricia Briggs

#7. I get back in the Continental and continue down the road to the cafe. Then I pull in and there's Larry Johnson's '57 Ford pickup in the parking lot. As I enter the little cafe, I see Larry and Briggs in the corner, drinking some coffee and having a late breakfast. I go right over and sit down with them. We don't say much. David says something about Kirby getting a job at one of the studios. Kirby is very good with his hands and can fix anything, plus he has a very friendly personality. We are happy for him. Larry has to make a call and gets up, heading for the pay phone in the corner. He has us get him another coffee when the waitress comes back. Briggs looks at me and asks what I've been doing. #Quote by Neil Young

#8. 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. #Quote by Patricia Briggs

#9. Women are the bloodthirsty sex," said Ric sadly. "We get the reputation, but it is only because the women stand behind us, and say, 'Kill it. Squish it. #Quote by Patricia Briggs

#10. Suddenly I don't feel so bad at being rescued by a rabbit, #Quote by Patricia Briggs

#11. No. just warning him about sleeping with dangerous things. Tigers are rare treasures - and they will eat you and not give it a second thought. #Quote by Patricia Briggs

#12. 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 - #Quote by Patricia Briggs

#13. The trick to going wherever you want unchallenged in a hospital is to walk briskly, nod to the people you know, and ignore the ones you don't. The nod reassures everyone that you are known, the brisk pace that you have a mission and don't want to talk. #Quote by Patricia Briggs

#14. MS. THOMPSON, it said in heavy block letters, PLEASE KEEP YOUR FELINE OFF MY PROPERTY. IF I SEE IT AGAIN, I WILL EAT IT. #Quote by Patricia Briggs

#15. You're not a real Texan till you've been kicked out of every decent state in America. #Quote by Joe Bob Briggs

#16. All right," Mom said. 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. #Quote by Patricia Briggs

#17. Humans, in her experience, were weak and fragile things prone to dying and breeding with about the same frequency. #Quote by Patricia Briggs

#18. There were four cars to choose from, identical except in color. Charles raised an eyebrow at Anna and she trotted around them, pondering.
"Gray, white, and silver would all blend in," she told him.
"By all means let's take the metallic orange," he agreed somberly. #Quote by Patricia Briggs

#19. Might not be able to save you, old son," Adam said, lying back again and closing his eyes. "But I can buy us a little time to kick you in the butt hard enough you stop thinking about 'tomorrow and tomorrow' and start thinking about how much but hurts. #Quote by Patricia Briggs

#20. It is one of those nondenominational churches so busy not condemning anyone that it has little power to attract a steady congregation. #Quote by Patricia Briggs

#21. Being a martyr is highly overrated. #Quote by Patricia Briggs

#22. The best ally you can have in breaking up a street fight is a grandmother. #Quote by Joe Bob Briggs

#23. 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. #Quote by Patricia Briggs

#24. Love means leaving yourself vulnerable, knowing that there is someone to catch you when you fall. ~ Mercy #Quote by Patricia Briggs

#25. I think that I can count on the fingers of one hand the times you've actually said the word 'women' and not replaced it with an epithet referring to female genitalia."
"Hey, he's not that bad," Warren said. "Sometimes he calls them cows or whores. #Quote by Patricia Briggs

#26. I was too busy fighting the river to worry about adjusting my beliefs in accordance to reality. #Quote by Patricia Briggs

#27. Mercy?" His voice was very calm, that "people are going to die" calm only he could do. As soon as he started to speak, silence fell behind him because I wasn't the only one who knew that voice. #Quote by Patricia Briggs

#28. Cheeses crusty, got all musty, got damp on the stone of a peach," I agreed. He looked blank, so I repeated it with proper emphasis. " ChEEZ-zes crusty. Got Al -musty. Got DAMp on the StoneofapeaCH. #Quote by Patricia Briggs

#29. He started to look at me, but his eyes ran into trouble as they hit Honey and refused to move off of her. It was not an uncommon reaction. One more reason to hate Honey - not that I needed another one.
"Honey, this is Tom Black, a reporter who wants the skinny on what it's like to date Adam Hauptman, prince of the werewolves." I said it to get a rise out of her, but Honey disappointed me.
"Mr. Black," she said, coolly extending her hand.
He shook her hand, still staring at her, and then seemed to recover. He cleared his throat. "Prince of the Werewolves? Is he?"
"She can't talk to you, Mr. Black," Honey told him, though she glanced at me to make it clear that the words were directed at me. If she weren't more careful, she'd find herself outed as a werewolf. If she weren't dumber than a stump, she'd have known I don't take orders. Not from Bran, not from Adam or Samuel - certainly not from Honey.
"No one ever told me not to talk to reporters," I said truthfully. Everyone just assumed I'd be smart enough not to. I was so busy tormenting Honey that I ignored what the implicit promise in my statement would do to the reporter.
"I will make it worth your while," Black said in a classic assumption close worthy of a used-car salesman. He reached into his suit jacket and pulled out a roll of bills in a gold clip and set them on the counter. If I hadn't been so ticked off with Honey - and Adam for sticking me with her - I'd have laughed. But Honey was the #Quote by Patricia Briggs

#30. Happiness is German engineering, Italian cooking, and Belgian chocolate. #Quote by Patricia Briggs

#31. I am always careful with the truth. It is a powerful thing and deserves respect. (Tad) #Quote by Patricia Briggs

#32. To be a good writer, become a good listener. #Quote by Cynthia Briggs

#33. Coyote never loses. Because I change the rules of the games my enemies play. What are the rules of your game? #Quote by Patricia Briggs

#34. And thus Charles found himself wandering around a hotel, trailing federal agents as he held a cardboard coffee cup holder in each hand, instead of out killing misbehaving werewolves. #Quote by Patricia Briggs

#35. We who are dominant tend to think of that aspect of being a werewolf as rank: who is obeyed, who is to obey. Dominant and submissive. But it is also who is to protect and who is to be protected. A submissive wolf is not incapable of protecting himself: he can fight, he can kill as readily as any other. But a submissive doesn't feel the need to fight
not the way a dominant does. They are a treasure in a pack. A source of purpose and of balance. Why does a dominant exist? To protect those beneath him, but protecting a submissive is far more rewarding because a submissive will never wait until you are wounded or your back is turned to see if you are truly dominant to him. Submissive wolves can be trusted. And they unite the pack with the goal of keeping them safe and cared for. #Quote by Patricia Briggs

#36. New rules. If you are smart enough to live, you won't hit Charles's mate in front of his father. #Quote by Patricia Briggs

#37. You are a remarkable man, Charles Cornick."

He wrapped his arms around her shoulders and put his chin on the top of her head. "I know," he confided lightly. "And often underappreciated by those who don't know any better."

She poked him with a finger and looked up at him. "And funny - though I expect that is another facet of your character that goes unappreciated even more often than your remarkableness."

"Some people don't even notice," he said in a mock-mournful voice. #Quote by Patricia Briggs

#38. Dragons and legends ... It would have been difficult for any man not to want to fight beside a dragon. #Quote by Patricia Briggs

#39. I don't break; I bounce. #Quote by Patricia Briggs

#40. Briggs was living in Toronto at the time and had started a studio called Thunder Sound. He recorded the Massey Hall show. He thought this live show should have come out right away and was disappointed and disagreed with my decision to instead put out Harvest-he thought it was not as good as the Massey Hall recording.
"It's great, Neil," Briggs said. "Put it out there." But that was not to be.
When I heard the show thirty-four years later while reviewing tapes for my archive performance series, I was a little shocked-I agreed with David. After listening, I felt his frustration. This was better than Harvest. It meant more. He was right. I had missed it. He understood it. David was usually right, and when I disagreed with him, I was usually wrong. Every time I go into the studio or onstage, he is missed. #Quote by Neil Young

#41. 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. #Quote by Patricia Briggs

#42. I borrowed a hammer and the garage and disposed of both phones. I was pretty sure that I could have just pulled the batteries, but pretty sure wasn't good enough, so I used a hammer. #Quote by Patricia Briggs

#43. Fear makes idiots out of us all, at some time or other. #Quote by Patricia Briggs

#44. The fifties were when people started coming down on "juvenile delinquents," "hoodlums," "vandals"
anybody that was young, wore a motorcycle jacket, and didn't act polite around older people. #Quote by Joe Bob Briggs

#45. This world has need of song and sword. #Quote by Patricia Briggs

#46. success is 99% failure #Quote by Henry Ford