Frasi di Patricia Briggs

pagina 5

“Love means leaving yourself vulnerable, knowing that there is someone to catch you when you fall. ~ Mercy”

“All change brings bad things and good things to replace the bad and good things that were before. It is natural to look back and say it was better before—but that does not make it true. Different is not worse. It is just different.”

“Paranoia: the gift of the survivor and the burden of the overtired, stressed, and terrified…”

“Baking is like washing--the results are equally temporary.”

“The main thing to remember is that making love is at onces the silliest and the most sacred act humans can perform.”

“Charles looked at her thoughtfully. "People talk to you," he said. "That could be useful.”

“It is not wise to give something old and powerful something they care about. And I am very old.”

“I used my history degree about twice a year whether I needed to or not.”

“It was complicated. I understood it, mostly, but I had to think a little sideways to do it.”

“Charles preferred his deer to taste like meat and his pancakes to look like pancakes. Brother Wolf thought he was too picky. Brother Wolf was probably right.”

“Feeling scared yet? Want to go somewhere safe?" "It won't help, will it? We'd just run into Godzilla or the Vampire from Hell. Trouble just follows you around." "Hey, Trouble. Let's find out what your mysterious Indian wanted us to know.”

“… had just apologized to me. Hell must have been experiencing some climate change.”

“I was in the middle of a dream about garbage cans and frogs - don't ask, and I won't tell.”

“People as old and powerful as he should never be given someone to love. For Anna he would destroy the world.”

“Fortunately, he'd found that most people were easy to locate at five thirty in the morning.”

“I give you Mercedes Athena Thompson, our newest member."

Much awkwardness ensued.”

“There is something incredibly arousing about being wanted. I pulled my hand back and sucked in a deep breath. “Adam,” I said.”

“Yes," he said sincerely. "Such a one deserves peanut butter on the seat of his pants.”

“When a man is on the verge of passing out from pain, it seemed wrong to notice how beautiful he was.”

“Even after all this time, I keep forgetting that heroes can be found in unlikely places and persons -- like mechanics who can turn into coyotes.”

“Zee said, grumpily, “Liebling, this is not a good idea.”
“Zee,” I told him, “I am completely out of good ideas and am doing my best with the bad ones I have left.”

“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.”

“You are a sick, sick man,” I told him.
“Thank you,” Ben replied, looking modest.”

“Asil left Bran alone with his thoughts then, because if he stayed, Bran would argue with him. This way, Bran would have no one to argue with but himself. And Asil had always credited Bran with the ability to be persuasive.”

“New rules. If you are smart enough to live, you won’t hit Charles’s mate in front of his father.”

“Love is not necessary for sex.”

“I didn't like anyone except me having their hands all over him. There had been possession in Wolf's touch, and Adam belonged to me.”

“But you can't marry someone to fix him, even if you love them.”

“Evil must always be fought.”