River Marked (Mercy Thompson, #6)

by Patricia Briggs

That feeling of belonging to something greater than myself was the gift Adam gave to me.

A coyote will get herself hurt a lot if she runs with wolves.”

I think that is enough of the story. It ends tragically, as it usually does when two such different people love each other.”

“It is not something you can bargain with, Mr. Hauptman. It is Hunger.” “I’m a werewolf,” Adam told him. “People would have said that about me a century ago, too.”

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.”

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.