Patricia Briggs: Such a small thing to cause so much trouble.

No-pocket jeans are only slightly less irritating than thong underwear.

Patricia Briggs

underwear jeans pockets

Now, I'm not very vain. If I'd ever been, making my living covered in various grease and dirt mixtures would have cured me quickly. Still, I wasn't up to facing two sexy men when I had one eye swollen mostly shut and half of my face black and blue.

Patricia Briggs

sexy eye men

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

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pain beautiful men

I was too busy fighting the river to worry about adjusting my beliefs in accordance to reality.

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fighting rivers reality

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

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garbage-cans frogs dream

I give you Mercedes Athena Thompson, our newest member." Much awkwardness ensued.

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athena members giving

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.

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growing-up strong children

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.

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adam possession hands

The Elders were closer to the Maker of All Things and should be deferred to whenever they made their will known.

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makers should made

I am the reality of all coyotes. The archetype. The epitome. You are just a reflection of me.

Patricia Briggs

coyotes reflection reality

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

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complicated littles thinking

Trouble seems to follow me around, waiting to club me with a tire iron.

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iron clubs waiting

It was unsettling to be in love with someone who looked like the face in her nightmares.

Patricia Briggs

nightmare faces

Not that I'd really been planning on keeping the attack secret; it had just been an option I'd wanted to keep open if I could.

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planning secret wanted

Mine. He was mine, and not even death would take him from me—not if I could help it.

Patricia Briggs

if-i-could mines helping

I don't break; I bounce.

Patricia Briggs

adam-hauptman bounce break

Usually the people I do know are sufficient to spawn any number of nightmares without inventing any.

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nightmare numbers people

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.

Patricia Briggs

fate grateful giving

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.

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knowing challenges life

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

Patricia Briggs

making-love waiting thinking