Sherisse Briggs Quotes

#1. Never accept the blame for what evil people do. We are all responsible for our own actions. #Quote by Patricia Briggs

#2. She open her eyes and met his. The impact was so strong he was amazed that his figures continued playing with out pause. #Quote by Patricia Briggs

#3. He doesn't trust me - and I'm sorry to say he has reason." He looked at Samuel. "I don't think he'll trust you either - not another male when his daughter is there." He turned back to me. "But you have his scent all over your van, and he has a picture of you in his bedroom."
Samuel gave me a sharp look. "In his bedroom? #Quote by Patricia Briggs

#4. Asil has appointed himself my guardian?" asked Charles softly. Asil was overstepping himself.
"He was bored, he told me," said his father. He gave Charles a small smile. "I have given him a job so he doesn't get bored again. #Quote by Patricia Briggs

#5. What do you mean? Leslie's voice was cool, as if she questioned witches who were flat on their backs being threatened by werewolves every day. #Quote by Patricia Briggs

#6. I went to school in Hooks, Texas, where most people can't even read the name stitched over their own pocket. #Quote by Joe Bob Briggs

#7. You play games with people's lives.( ... ) You forget that they are fragile. #Quote by Patricia Briggs

#8. I flip a cognitive coin while reading Dr. Briggs' take on life, theology, science, and the conception of human life. #Quote by Asa Don Brown

#9. A friend in danger is not someone who should be deserted. Safety is not always the right path. (Sylvia) #Quote by Patricia Briggs

#10. He sighed. "I don't think an apology will do, Mercy. Because an apology implies that you wouldn't do it again. And, under the circumstances, you wouldn't do anything differently, would you?
"No. #Quote by Patricia Briggs

#11. But that was the trouble with ancient artifacts - no one really knew what they did. #Quote by Patricia Briggs

#12. Are we going to Portland?" I asked. "Or Multnomah Falls?"
He smiled at me. "Go to sleep."
I waited three seconds. "Are we there yet?"
His smile widened, and the last of the usual tension melted from his face. For a smile like that, I'd ... do anything. #Quote by Patricia Briggs

#13. Are you asking for quarter? I'm not in a particularly merciful mood." I can make fun of my name, but no one else can. Unless I'm in a really good mood. Or if I start it first. #Quote by Patricia Briggs

#14. Cheeky. Carry them for nine months, feed them, clothe them, and what do I get? Impertinence. #Quote by Patricia Briggs

#15. If you leave me naked and waiting on the bed without making love to me, I'll - " I didn't get to finish the threat. I think it was the word "naked," though maybe it was "bed," but before I finished my sentence, he was on me. Mercy to Adam #Quote by Patricia Briggs

#16. He was like Superman, but with fangs and oddly impaired morals. #Quote by Patricia Briggs

#17. And that's when Anna realized that what the wolf had been asking Bran for was death.
Impulsively, Anna stepped away from Charles. She put a knee on the bench she'd been sitting on and reached over the back to close her hand on Asil's wrist, which was lying across the back of the pew.
He hissed in shock but didn't pull away. As she held him the scent of wilderness, of sickness, faded. He stared at her, the whites of his eyes showing brightly while his irises narrowed to small bands around his black pupil.
"Omega," he whispered, his breath coming harshly. #Quote by Patricia Briggs

#18. Stop that, Anna scolded him. You don't need to hurt because I do.
But I do, Charles replied, more honestly than he intended. #Quote by Patricia Briggs

#19. Adam wants to know what took you so long?
Tell him I had wild, passionate sex with a complete stranger. #Quote by Patricia Briggs

#20. 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

#21. I'll remember your words," he told her with returned seriousness, though he pictured Anna taking her grandmother's rolling pin after the ghosts who haunted him, and it made him want to...smirk again. #Quote by Patricia Briggs

#22. AD/HD and depression also are linked to higher incidents of antisocial and delinquent conduct. #Quote by Steven Briggs

#23. All life is rife with possibilities. Seeds have possibilities, but all their tomorrows are caught by the patterning of their life cycle. Animals have possibilities that are greater than that of a fir tree or a blade of grass. Still, though, for most animals, the pattern of instinct, the patterns of their lives, are very strong. Humanity has a far greater range of possibilities, especially the very young. Who will children grow up to be? Who will they marry, what will they believe, what will they create? Creation is a very powerful seed of possibility. #Quote by Patricia Briggs

#24. Shut up," I said fiercely and very quietly because the sound of his voice sent sharp, arcing lightning rods of pain from my eyes all the way through my skull. #Quote by Patricia Briggs

#25. Honey, ... When a wolf watches a lamb, he's not thinking about the lamb's mommy. #Quote by Patricia Briggs

#26. My foster mother always laughed and said it was his reputation for knowing everything that allowed for him to appear infallible: all he had to do was walk through the room and see who looked guiltiest when they saw him. Maybe she was right, but I tried looking innocent the next time, and it didn't work. #Quote by Patricia Briggs

#27. 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. #Quote by Patricia Briggs

#28. I narrowed my eyes at him. "Stuff that. I'll write a doctoral thesis. Then I can go do what most of the other people with doctoral degrees in anthropology do."
"What's that?" asked Calvin.
"You don't need to encourage her," said Adam seriously, but his eyes laughed at me.
"The same thing that people with degrees in history do," I said. "Fix cars or serve frnech fries and bad hamburgers. #Quote by Patricia Briggs

#29. She crawled on top of him, naked and warm and soft, smelling like a miracle that had saved him from a lifetime of aloneness. #Quote by Patricia Briggs

#30. 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

#31. Some of the fae have an odd idea of bride send-offs," he explained "including, according to Zee, kidnapping." "I forgot about that." And I was appalled because I knew better. "Bran and Samuel are probably more of a danger than any of the fae," I told him. "Someday, I'll tell you about some of the more spectaculare wedding antics Samuel's told me about." Some of them made kidnapping look mild. #Quote by Patricia Briggs

#32. What would a racist call werewolves? Wargs? She kind of liked that one, but suspected that racist bastards didn't read Tolkien. #Quote by Patricia Briggs

#33. Despite the way our bond scares you, despite the way someone in the pack played you, you'd still have me?"
He been listening to my thoughts. This time it didn't bother me.
"Adam," I told him, "I'd walk barefoot over hot coals for you."
"You didn't take advantage of this thing with Samuel as a way of putting distance between us," he said.
I sucked in my breath. I could see how he might have interpreted it that way. "You know that section in the Bible, where Jesus told Paul he will deny him three times before morning? Peter says, 'heck no' but sure enough when he's asked by some people if he's one of Jesus' followers, he says he's not. And after the third time, he hears the cock crow and realizes what he done. I feel like Peter now. #Quote by Patricia Briggs

#34. She put a few drops of the liquid in the bottle on her hands and rubbed it into her skin. When she felt the familiar warmth begin to seep into her hand, indicating that it was indeed a liniment of some sort, she splattered it liberally on Kerim's back and set to work.
"Remind me to recommend you to the Stablemaster," said Kerim, his voice tight with pain. "You need to find more honest work than thievery."
"Honest?" questioned Sham, pressing deeply into his back with her thumbs. "I'm the most honest thief in Purgatory, just ask the Shark. I pay him a copper a week to say so. #Quote by Patricia Briggs

#35. It was unsettling to be in love with someone who looked like the face in her nightmares. #Quote by Patricia Briggs

#36. Of course, if Charles found out his father was out here, too, the damn fool would probably head right back into the maw of danger; he was that kind of heroic idiot. #Quote by Patricia Briggs

#37. I promise I won't spank you," he told me, his voice rough and low as he added, "not unless you ask me to."
I let him feel my laugh against his shoulder. "That's because you aren't genuinely suicidal. #Quote by Patricia Briggs

#38. 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. #Quote by Patricia Briggs