Nicoline Patricia Quotes

I love writers. All of my best friends are writers. ~ Patricia Clarkson

Ben rubbed his muzzle over Kyle's shoulder in a way that I think was supposed to be reassuring. Kyle sucked in a breath. Either it hurt, or the reminder that the werewolf was big enough to rub his shoulder without much effort wasn't exactly reassuring.
"Ben, when was the last time you brushed your teeth?" asked Kyle.
Or else Ben's breath was really bad. ~ Patricia Briggs

Dogs speak words, but only poets and children Hear. ~ Patricia MacLachlan

I might be dumb," I told him, putting my nose against his silk tie, "but I'm not that dumb. I've gotcha now and you aren't getting away. ~ Patricia Briggs

In the beginning, he taught you how to hold your fingers, use your head, hold your shoulders, how you glissade, bourre - the exact way he wanted you to do the steps. It was relearning the whole Balanchine technique. ~ Patricia McBride

He could have told her that he had no intention of bedding her, but he tried not to lie. Not even to himself. ~ Patricia Briggs

This is the monkey mind of which Zen speaks: the mind that worries, doubts, frets about the past, makes lists, all the time chattering like a monkey. ~ Patricia Monaghan

All due respect, Renny," said Mary Jo, "I have a pretty freaking good idea of your capabilities. And I think Mr. Traegar's decision to bring us in first was the correct one. We don't really know what we're dealing with when it comes to the fae - there is no way that the sheriff's office would. We had two werewolves, Mercy and the goblin king out there - and if it weren't for the goblin king we'd have failed to bring him in ourselves."

He gave her a look. "I am going to ignore - just for a minute - how much my geek side is loving that apparently there is a goblin king in the world. And that he is - again apparently - here in the Tri-Cities. Even knowing that David Bowie is gone, I am giddy about this." He said all that in a very dry, professional tone.

I was starting to really like this guy. ~ Patricia Briggs

The confessional writer will treat her story like a wailing wall. She kneels, and her story spills out, messy, improper. It isn't a protest or even graffiti, but her story is an offering of things that she overlooked or notices that others have overlooked. She is in danger of exposure but she remembers when she lived in hiding and that was worse. She cannot turn back now because this is how life has spun out of her, part vexing passage and part prayer. ~ Patricia Hickman

It's my privilege," I said carefully, trying not to tweak his pride, "to do those things that are easier for me than for you. You do the same for me. Let me deal with her. ~ Patricia Briggs

It is hard to accept being different, hard to have people avoid looking at you, and still believe in yourself. ~ Patricia Briggs

More than 10,000 ballots in Miami-Dade County have been rejected by some machine without any opportunity for a human being to take a look. That is just not right. ~ Patricia Ireland

The loss of a sexual life is one of the worst things about getting really old. The worst thing. ~ Patricia McConnell

Bran was always a deceptive bastard, gentle and mild right up until he ripped your throat out. He had many other fine qualities as well. ~ Patricia Briggs

And with that, Rorie climbed back not her bed and slept for what seemed like a hundred years. ~ Patricia Kirby

My mother used rituals to perpetuate an illusion of family organization. ~ Patricia Thompson Collamer

I have been in more classrooms than any legislator will ever walk into in their lives, and I see wonderful, caring, dedicated teaching out there. ~ Patricia Polacco

I started out hoping to remind people at some point in the novel that we should be loving and kind. But then the theme usurped my life, spilling over into my novels until love was no longer a small voice, but now my purpose as a writer. ~ Patricia Hickman

As she moved swiftly and noiselessly through the vast palace cellar, odd noises weltered toward her. Voices and echoes of water rippled through the air as if, in some magic chamber, whales and dolphins cavorted among young maidens in great tanks of water. When she reached it, all the fish turned into laundry, stirred and beaten in steaming cauldrons by glum, limp-haired women as wet as mackerels. ~ Patricia A. McKillip

It takes one person to give you a big chance. ~ Patricia Velasquez

Jones is dead," I promised. "He just doesn't know it yet. But we are patient, we can wait until the time is ripe. ~ Patricia Briggs

When we came home later, my father was wearing his most transparent pair of boxer shorts, to show us he was angry, and drinking Baileys Irish Cream liqueur out of a miniature crystal glass, to show us his heart was broken. ~ Patricia Lockwood

He used their bond to soak up her pain and take as much of its into himself as he could. Then he set the bone of her nose back where it needed to go before the werewolf's ability to mend quickly made it heal crooked. She didn't flinch, though he knew he couldn't take all the pain from her.
Stop that, Anna scolded him. You don't need to hurt because I do.
But I do, Charles replied, more honesty than he intended. I failed keep it safe. She huffed a laugh. You taught me to keep myself safe - a much better gift for your mate, I think. If you had not found me, I would have killed them all but you came - and that is another, second gift. That you would come, even though I could have protected myself. ~ Patricia Briggs

I jerked my chin toward Frost's body. 'All that is required for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing.'
Hao said, "Life is not safe. A man might spend his whole time on earth staying safe in a basement, and in the end, he still dies like everyone else." Half-naked, covered with the same filth we all were, he still gave the impression of being in control of himself and his environment. ~ Patricia Briggs

When you accept things as they are, you allow yourself to make choices, that will help create the change you seek. ~ Patricia Dsouza

Fleur to Doral:
"My love for you and Ari cannot be measured in words. It can only be measured by what I will do for you. Absolutely anything. By what I want for you. Absolutely everything. I would move Verdantia from her orbit to defend you from all that would hurt you." She rose and crossed to him, sliding into his lap and snuggling into his broad chest. She hugged him fiercely.

"You are mine, Doral, every bit as much as Ari. Those who hurt you do so at their peril. ~ Patricia A. Knight

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

The more I focus my time and energy on withstanding a real life, I am able to overcome and come out victorious. ~ Patricia Dsouza

I am not sad, but I am melancholic. When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life. ~ Patricia Kaas

Love is when you fry the other person's bacon even if you're a vegetarian. ~ Patricia Nell Warren

You hold the ability to choose to heal and to recuperate. This power is in your hand alone ~ Patricia Dsouza

The world is full of mystery but it must not be choked with secrets: we must talk to one another. ~ Patricia Hampl