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But that was the trouble with ancient artifacts - no one really knew what they did.

Patricia Briggs

Ancient, Trouble, Artifacts

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A second floor window opened, and Kyle stuck his head and shoulders out so he could look down at us. “If you two are finished playing Cowboy and Indian out there, some of us would like to get their beauty sleep.” I looked at Warren. “You heard ‘um Kemo Sabe. Me go to my little wigwam and get ‘um shut-eye.” “How come you always get to play the Indian?” whined Warren, deadpan. “Cause she’s the Indian, white boy,” said Kyle.

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Sleep, Eye, Boys

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Bran was stripping her futon down to the bare mattress when she entered her apartment. It was sort of like watching the president mowing the White House lawn or taking out the trash.

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White, House, President

Patricia Briggs (2008). “Cry Wolf”, p.13, Penguin

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Dont let the bastards grind you down?" Bran looked at me incredulously.

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Grind

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So in the sweltering heat of a July night, I sang a Christmas carol to a room full of fae, who had been driven out of their homelands by Christians and their cold-iron swords.

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Christian, Night, July

Patricia Briggs (2011). “The Mercy Thompson Collection”, p.451, Penguin

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His heart's occupied elsewhere," said Ben from behind me. "And even if it weren't he's not interested in your kind. But, I'm available and ready." "You don't have a heart," I told him.” Just a gaping hole where it should have been. " "All the more reason for you to give me yours. " I pounded my forehead against Warren 's back. "Tell me Ben's not flirting with me. " "Hey," said Ben sounding hurt. "I was talking cannibalism, not romance.

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Hurt, Heart, Flirting

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The trick to going wherever you want unchallenged in a hospital is to walk briskly, nod to the people you know, and ignore the ones you don’t. The nod reassures everyone that you are known, the brisk pace that you have a mission and don’t want to talk

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People, Pace, Want

Patricia Briggs (2010). “Silver Borne”, p.37, Penguin

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My will broke at the sound of his voice, and my head turned with as much inevitability as a sunflower turning its face to the sun.

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Voice, Sunflower, Sound

Patricia Briggs (2010). “Silver Borne”, p.59, Penguin

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Do you have any idea how much I love you?” he asked. ”Enough to accept my apologies?” I suggested in a small voice. ”Heck no,” he said, and pushed off from the wall, stalking forward. When he reached me, he put his hands up and touched the sides of my neck with the tips of his fingers – as if I were something fragile. ”No apologies from you,” he told me, his voice soft enough to melt my knees and most of my other parts.

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Wall, Love You, Apology

Patricia Briggs (2011). “The Mercy Thompson Collection”, p.1345, Penguin

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Any idiot can put up a website.

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Idiot, Website

Patricia Briggs (2011). “The Mercy Thompson Collection”, p.376, Penguin

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Civilization is vastly overrated.

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Civilization, Overrated

Patricia Briggs (2008). “Alpha & Omega: A Companion Novella to Cry Wolf”, p.56, Penguin

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My grandfather would have loved to have met you," he told her huskily. "He would have called you 'She Moves Trees Out of His Path.' " She looked lost, but his da laughed. He'd known the old man, too. "He called me 'He Who Must Run into Trees,'" Charles explained, and in a spirit of honesty, a need for his mate to know who he was, he continued, "or sometimes 'Running Eagle.' " " 'Running Eagle'?" Anna puzzled it over, frowning at him. "What's wrong with that?" "Too stupid to fly," murmured his father with a little smile.

Patricia Briggs

Running, Honesty, Father

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For Adam, screwed-up bonding thing or not, I’d wait forever. “Really?” he asked in a tone I’d never heard from him before. Softer. Vulnerable. Adam didn’t do vulnerable. “Really what?” I asked. “Despite the way our bond scares you, despite the way someone in the pack played you, you’d still have me?” He'd 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.

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Waiting, Forever, Listening

Patricia Briggs (2010). “Silver Borne”, p.78, Penguin

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Wizards don't all look alike.

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Looks, Wizards

Patricia Briggs (2002). “Dragon Bones”, p.69, Penguin

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Mine" he said. Adam's eyes narrowed. "I don't think so. She is mine." It would of been flattering,I thought,except that at least one of them was talking about dinner and I wasn't certain about the other.

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Eye, Thinking, Talking

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She sees ghosts,” said Samuel, impatient with my whining. I see dead people,” I deadpanned back. Oddly, it was Uncle Mike who laughed. I hadn’t thought he’d be a moviegoer.

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Uncles, People, Ghost

Patricia Briggs (2008). “Iron Kissed”, p.84, Penguin

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Tim was dead. And he's always been a loser. I'd be damned if I was going to be the victim of a loser - or anyone else.

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Loser, Victim, Ifs

Patricia Briggs (2011). “The Mercy Thompson Collection”, p.1003, Penguin

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See you tomorrow,” he said, instead. “All right.” Then, impulsively, I asked, “Do you have a place to sleep tonight?” “Sure,” he said with a smile, and started off as if he had somewhere to be. I could have bitten off my tongue because I pushed him into a lie. Once he started lying to me, it would be harder to get him to trust me with the truth. I don’t know why it works that way, but it does—at least in my experience.

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Lying, Sleep, Doe

Patricia Briggs (2011). “The Mercy Thompson Collection”, p.32, Penguin

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I could hear him laughing. Son of a bit*h. I would kill him. I didn't care if he was coyote or the son of Satan.He was a dead man walking.

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Son, Men, Laughing

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Reincarnation?” He shrugged. “I’ve never seen any evidence that it’s real. But I’ve never seen anything that disproves it either. I believe the afterlife is better than what we have here—and it would take something extraordinary to make someone willing to come back.

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Real, Believe, Afterlife

Patricia Briggs (2009). “Hunting Ground”, p.187, Penguin

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

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Morning, People, Easy

Patricia Briggs (2008). “Cry Wolf”, p.119, Penguin

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Don’t try threatening an Alpha. They don’t like it.

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Trying, Threatening, Alphas

Patricia Briggs (2010). “Silver Borne”, p.73, Penguin

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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.

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Mean, Voice, Witch

Patricia Briggs (2012). “Fair Game”, p.90, Penguin

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This was not a man who wanted to give up his mate. This was a man trying to do the honorable thing—and give her a choice, no matter hiw much it cost him.

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Giving Up, Men, Choices

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When we got to the moron who was sitting in the only path to the stairway, Adam caught my waist and lifted me over before stepping over the man himself. “Scott?” Adam said as we headed upstairs. “Yeah?” “Unless someone shoots you, skins you, and throws the results on the floor, I don’t want to see you lying in the walkway again.” “Yessir!

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Lying, Men, Skins

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