Fire Touched Quotes

“She doesn’t need the pack. She doesn’t need me.”

I shot to my feet. “That’s not true,” I said hotly.

He tilted his head a little, his eyes meeting mine. His eyes softened. “I misspoke,” he said in a steady voice. “She doesn’t need me to make sure she has enough food or a place to live-that is my privilege, but she doesn’t need me to do that. She doesn’t need me to keep her safe or to make her a whole person. She doesn’t need me to do anything except love her. Which I do.”
― Patricia Briggs, Fire Touched

“So,” he said, shaking his head. “I’m too much for you. You should have said something. We might be married, Mercy, but no still means no.”

I widened my eyes at him. “I just haven’t wanted to hurt your feelings.”

“When I give you that little nudge, hmm?” His voice took on a considering air. “Come to think of it, I’m feeling a little nudge coming on right now.”

“Now?” I whispered in horrified tones. I looked up toward Jesse’s room. “Think of the children.”

He tilted his head as if to listen, then shook it. “They won’t hear anything from there.” He started slowly down the stairs.

“Think of Darryl, Zack, Lucia, and Joel,” I said earnestly. “They’ll be scarred for life.”

“You know what they say about werewolves,” he told me gravely, stepping down to the ground.

I broke and ran—and he was right on my tail. Figuratively speaking, of course. I don’t have a tail unless I’m in my coyote shape.”
― Patricia Briggs, Fire Touched

“Now this little gem”— Izzy’s mother pulled out yet another bottle—“this is one of my favorites, guaranteed to improve your love life or your money back. Does your husband ever have trouble keeping up?” She held up a finger, then curled it limply downward as her eyebrows arched up.

The silence from upstairs was suddenly deafening.”
― Patricia Briggs, Fire Touched

“I returned Zack’s hug, and he slipped something into my pocket that felt like one of the vials I’d just bought. He stepped back, looked me earnestly in the eye, and said, “To protect you from the nudge.”

Darryl high-fived him as he stepped out on the porch. It made Adam laugh.”
― Patricia Briggs, Fire Touched

“I let fall a husky laugh. “You’ve seen my husband, right?” Adam was gorgeous. “But some nights . . . I’m not on the right side of thirty anymore, you know? Sometimes I’m tired. I just get to sleep, and he’s nudging me again.” I gave her what I hoped would come out as a shy, hopeful smile. “Do you have anything that might help with that?”
― Patricia Briggs, Fire Touched

“Death is not to be feared. Death is easy. It is living that is brutal.”
― Patricia Briggs, Fire Touched

“He was a better fighter than I was, but he wasn’t faster than me. Nor was he as motivated, and I think he underestimated me. He thought he was fighting a girl with a stick when he was fighting Adam’s mate, Coyote’s daughter, armed with Lugh’s staff.”
― Patricia Briggs, Fire Touched

“Nudge.”
― Patricia Briggs, Fire Touched

“Holy Avon, Batman, I thought as worry relaxed into annoyance-tinged humor, I’ve been attacked by a multilevel marketer.”
― Patricia Briggs, Fire Touched

“People who say that vampires don’t care about anyone except themselves are mostly right—but sometimes they are very and lethally wrong.”
― Patricia Briggs, Fire Touched

“Death is part of life," he told her. "Without the one, it is hard to have the other.”
― Patricia Briggs, Fire Touched

“got my country’s five hundredth anniversary to plan, my wedding to arrange, my wife to murder, and Guilder to frame for it,”
― Patricia Briggs, Fire Touched

“The phone rang.
“Hauptmans’ mortuary,” I answered. “You stab ’em, we slab “em.” Baba Yaga was wearing off on me.
“Hard-boiled is the best way to eat eggs,” said Baba Yaga. “But I’ve quit eating eggs—it upset my household. What did the boy-who-isn’t-a-boy have to say?”
I decided I didn’t want to know what inspired the information about eggs.”

“She hung up.
I’d just replaced the handset when it rang again.
“Yes?” I said.
“I’m waiting for more cleverness,” Baba Yaga said. “Hauptman House of Horrors, don’t mind the screaming—we don’t. Something of the sort.”
“Okay,” I said. “Hauptman House of Horrors—”
“Sssss,” she said.”
― Patricia Briggs, Fire Touched

“Take happiness where you can,” he said. “It seldom lasts—’course, neither does sorrow, right?”
― Patricia Briggs, Fire Touched

“We are all monsters here, he said. It's too late for any of us to be anything else.”
― Patricia Briggs, Fire Touched

“Can you hear the silence? It's the good kind of silence, not the silence that listens back.”
― Patricia Briggs, Fire Touched

“This isn’t quite chemical castration, but it will bring your life into balance,” she said, and she was off on her sales pitch as if the phrase “chemical castration” was a common concept—and something one might consider doing to one’s husband. And she looked like such a nice, normal person.”
― Patricia Briggs, Fire Touched

“Neutral doesn’t work,” Charles said. “When you watch your allies commit atrocities and do nothing, who is more reprehensible? Those who rape and plunder or those who could have stopped it but do nothing?”
― Patricia Briggs, Fire Touched

“When you watch your allies commit atrocities and do nothing, who is more reprehensible? Those who rape and plunder or those who could have stopped it but do nothing?”
― Patricia Briggs, Fire Touched

“Every boarding party needs its guide to light the way, its wizard to defeat the magic and a tank that kill everything that tries to stop the party.

The tank is not sacrificial.”
― Patricia Briggs, Fire Touched

“Joe Old Coyote was tough, " Adam told Jesse, putting an arm around my shoulders. "He hunted vampires, and he took on Mercy's mom. Of the two, I know what I'm more scared of."
That made me laugh. "My mom isn't that bad."
Adam gave me a look.
"I bit my lip, then gave up and laughed again. "Okay, okay. She is. Worse. I'd rather face vampires any day than my mother."
"I found her charming," said Zee.
Laughter, I thought with satisfaction, is a terrific way to start an adventure.”
― Patricia Briggs, Fire Touched

“These are our promise to you," I told Jesse, "that we'll do our best to get back to you if we can. That we will do our best and expect the same from you."
"That's my Mercy, " Adam said. "Not too good with words until it counts. And then she'll pull the rug right out from under you."
Jesse blinked hard and gave Adam a "help me" look out of her watery eyes.
He grinned at her. "Just remember whose daughter you are," he said. "And whose daughter she is." He tipped his chin at me.”
― Patricia Briggs, Fire Touched

“Let us be heroes as well as monsters.”
― Patricia Briggs, Fire Touched

“Lugh’s walking stick ate the Gray Lord’s spell, and in doing so, it died. To save me.”
― Patricia Briggs, Fire Touched

“Touch is better than any word.”
― Patricia Briggs, Fire Touched

“If you want to stay here, that's something different. But thinking that you are the only one who can possibly keep her company - that's a trap." (p. 320)”
― Patricia Briggs, Fire Touched

“Give that wolf of yours a nudge for me. I do love Russian men.”
― Patricia Briggs, Fire Touched

“You come home, Daddy," she told him. "I love my mother, but if I have to live with her for very long, one of us will commit a homicide. And you bring Mercy and the pip-squeak back.”
― Patricia Briggs, Fire Touched

“Coyote had told me once that changes were neither good nor bad—but brought with them some of both.”
― Patricia Briggs, Fire Touched

“She doesn’t need me to make sure she has enough food or a place to live—that is my privilege, but she doesn’t need me to do that. She doesn’t need me to keep her safe or to make her a whole person. She doesn’t need me to do anything except love her. Which I do.”
― Patricia Briggs, Fire Touched