Patricia Briggs

You have to acknowledge evil, or you give it too much power over you.

If there was such evil in the world, was it possible that there was good, too?

Evil must always be fought.

Who hurt you?" she asked, slicing through the two other conversations going on at the table. "He's dead," said Charles, his hand sliding up Anna's back reassuringly. "I killed him. If I could, I would bring him back to life so I could kill him again.

Sometimes I think I live more closely to the past than the present.

When he grew up, he wanted to be like Charles.

Almost-Sister, you picked a real catch.___t was I who caught her,_ Adam said softly. __t took years.

Brother Wolf gave Anna an amused look and then went back to being scary.

Death is not such a bad thing. What would be a bad thing would be living without challenges. Without knowing defeat, we cannot know what victory is. There is no life without death.

I suppose we must work on being gracious and grateful until we can do for ourselves. Someday the wheel of fate will put us in a position to be of use to them, and we will remember how much easier it is to give help than it is to accept it.

Some people are boys longer than others.

My mother raised her eyebrow, and murmured, __nd to think I was always worried that you didn__ have any friends. I suppose I should have been counting my blessings.

My mother once told me that you had to trust that the first thing out of a person's mouth was the truth. After they have a chance to think about it, they'll change what they say to be more socially acceptable, something they think you'll be happier with, something they think will get the results they want.

A king who trusts no man is weak.

My father always said that too many words cheapened the value of a man's speech.

Some people will tell you werewolves can only shapechange under a full moon, but people also say there's no such things as ghosts.

C__st moi, c__st moi,__is I,' I told him. It seemed appropriately melodramatic, though I didn__ know if he__ catch the reference. I shouldn__ have worried. Unexpectedly, he laughed. __rust you to quote Lancelot rather than Guinevere.

Cheeky. Carry them for nine months, feed them, clothe them, and what do I get? Impertinence.