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.

— Patricia Briggs

Death isn't a tragedy to God, only to those left behind.

— Patricia Briggs

Don’t lick the guests, darling. Bad manners.

— Patricia Briggs

Don't make light of any man's pain.

— Patricia Briggs

Dragons and legends... It would have been difficult for any man not to want to fight beside a dragon.

— Patricia Briggs

Evil must always be fought.

— Patricia Briggs

Fear makes idiots out of us all, at some time or other.

— Patricia Briggs

Food was good, company better, and if I had been a cat, I'd have preferred.

— Patricia Briggs

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.

— Patricia Briggs

Hard truths can be dealt with, triumphed over, but lies will destroy your soul.

— Patricia Briggs