Dead Heat Quotes

“But that is the dual gift of love, isn’t it? The joy of greeting and the sorrow of good-bye.”
― Patricia Briggs, Dead Heat

“If you make my children, make any child, feel bad for who they are, I will teach you why people fear mama grizzlies more than papa grizzlies.”
― Patricia Briggs, Dead Heat

“It comes with being a teenager—you inspire violence in the hearts of those who love you. It mostly goes away when you hit twenty.”
― Patricia Briggs, Dead Heat

“The Arabians might not suit you; they don’t suit everyone. They are like cats: vain, beautiful, and intelligent. But you deal well enough with Asil, who is also vain, beautiful, and intelligent.”
― Patricia Briggs, Dead Heat

“His arm pulled her a little off balance, and paradoxically it steadied her at the same time. That was what Charles did to her heart, too. He knocked it off balance into what felt like the right position, a safe place that was still exciting, exhilarating, and terrifying.”
― Patricia Briggs, Dead Heat

“I’ve heard that Vlad the Impaler established without a doubt that having a stick up one’s ass was detrimental to one’s health. And I am very interested in keeping you healthy.”
― Patricia Briggs, Dead Heat

“I don't say goodbye very easily, Anna. Not gracefully or prettily.Goodbye tears your heart out and leaves it a feast for carrion birds who happen by.”
― Patricia Briggs, Dead Heat

“Love,” he said, “is always a risk, isn’t it? I’ve always thought that there were no certainties in life, but I was wrong. Love is a certainty. And love always gives more than it takes.”
― Patricia Briggs, Dead Heat

“Too much knowledge can make you paranoid all the time,”
― Patricia Briggs, Dead Heat

“It’ll take years of therapy. Probably for all of us: a long uphill battle. But we’re still on the field fighting the good fight, battered and beaten though we are, and I understand just what a great gift that is.”
― Patricia Briggs, Dead Heat

“Truth has many facets. Choose the ones that make her happy to be alive instead of the ones that make her want to smack you.”
― Patricia Briggs, Dead Heat

“You need to understand something," she said intently. "Charles is my husband. You can't have him. Mine. Not yours. There are lots of nice, unattachment men out there, I'm sure. Pick one of them and you might live longer." Then her body relaxed and her voice regained its usual cheeriness. "Thank you for your time, Ms. Newman.”
― Patricia Briggs, Dead Heat

“It was discouraging how quickly the beginnings of a sweater turned into a loose pile of yarn.”
― Patricia Briggs, Dead Heat

“He did not enjoy the sorrow, but he would not have missed the years that he and Joseph were friends, either. Such joy was worth a little sorrow.”
― Patricia Briggs, Dead Heat

“We know," she whispered to him. "We who have been hurt, we know what evil looks like. We know you make us safe.”
― Patricia Briggs, Dead Heat

“Charles asked me to stay here, she said, rather than confronting Hosteen with his lie. "You aren't my Alpha-and even if you were, he can't make me do anything, either." She tappef herself in the chest with one of her needles and half sang, "Omega. Me." Dropping into her own voice she said, "As an Omega wolf, I don't have the urge to obey you. At all. Not even the tiniest bit. Don't worry, it makes the Merrick crazy too.”
― Patricia Briggs, Dead Heat

“xeriscaped”
― Patricia Briggs, Dead Heat

“Suddenly Chelsea’s eyes met Anna’s from across the table and held them. Icy gray became even more pale, and Chelsea’s nostrils flared. “Who hurt you?” she asked, slicing through the two other conversations going on at the table.”
― Patricia Briggs, Dead Heat

“He sees people—all the way through them—and he likes them anyway.”
― Patricia Briggs, Dead Heat

“Whether those lives are a couple of decades or a couple of centuries long, living means that we get hurt, and some of those wounds don’t heal or they don’t heal completely.”
― Patricia Briggs, Dead Heat

“Two-year-olds en masse at a swimming pool sounded to Charles like a disaster waiting to happen. Maybe the remarkable thing was not how many children, teachers, and parents associated with this school had died, but that there had not been more.”
― Patricia Briggs, Dead Heat

“It’s easier to be horrible if you can squash everyone who tries to stop you.”
― Patricia Briggs, Dead Heat

“...The Arabs I rode herding cattle with your father in the fifties and sixties would do a full day’s work for twenty years, seven days a week, and retire sound.” He snorted. “The drive now is for pretty lawn ornaments. The Arabian horses were originally bred as weapons of war, and now they are artwork.”
― Patricia Briggs, Dead Heat

“mores”
― Patricia Briggs, Dead Heat

“Jadaan, he could be unpredictable. The producers were worried Valentino would get tossed, so he mostly rode other horses for the film. Valentino was furious and insulted.” He pursed his lips. “They were idiots, those producers; Valentino could ride.” Hosteen fell silent, and Anna tried to think of a question to get him going again. Before she did, he said, “That Jadaan. He had terrible front legs. But he was as good as Valentino himself at striking a pose. Cameras loved him.”
― Patricia Briggs, Dead Heat

“Leeds focused on Miss Blair.”
― Patricia Briggs, Dead Heat

“Charles se contenta de la dévisager.
- Tu le sais ça, n'est-ce pas ? La plupart des gens t'évitent, mais ceux qui sont sans défense et meurtris, c'est comme s'ils se glissaient peu à peu dans ton ombre. Là où tu ne les remarqueras pas trop... Et tu tiens les mauvaises choses à distance.
Il ne disait toujours rien. Elle boutonna son jean, puis s'avança de deux pas pour se presser contre lui.
- On le sait, lui chuchota-t-elle. Nous qui avons été blessés, on sait à quoi ressemble le mal. On sait qu'on est en sécurité avec toi.
Il ne dit rien, mais il passa les bras autour d'elle et elle sut qu'elle lui avait dit quelque chose qu'il ignorait... et que ça comptait pour lui.”
― Patricia Briggs, Dead Heat

“There’s a fog of fae magic on the first floor of the house,” he told her. “Where’s Charles?” “Downstairs,” she told him. “He sent me up here to make sure nothing happened to the kids.” “There’s a pool of blood just outside the door,” he whispered, stepping aside so Anna could see it while the kids were preoccupied. “Chelsea’s blood. I can’t scent her through the stink of fae magic that is coating this house.”
― Patricia Briggs, Dead Heat