Silence Fallen Quotes

“I'm a mechanic; I fix things that are broken. I turn into a thirty-five pound coyote. I have powerful friends. But when it comes right down to it, my real superpower is chaos." -Mercy”
― Patricia Briggs, Silence Fallen

“My love," he said, his voice intent, "you are welcome to all that I am, all that I have. I would destroy the planet for you. I was even diplomatic for you, which was a bigger sacrifice. A little power drain is nothing.”
― Patricia Briggs, Silence Fallen

“Mercy has this ... this uncanny ability to go where the trouble is thickest," Adam told him. He had decided a while ago that it wasn't deliberate, and that it had something to do with being Coyote's daughter. He was pretty sure that Mercy was completely oblivious.”
― Patricia Briggs, Silence Fallen

“People who stand in the way of my mate’s ability to get herself out of trouble often feel like they were hit by buses. I think this might be the first time it is literally true, though.”
― Patricia Briggs, Silence Fallen

“Matt Smith?" I said. "Really? You are not the Doctor, Bran. At your age, it is important to keep a lookout for excessive hubris.”
― Patricia Briggs, Silence Fallen

“Witches are bitches and they'll burn your britches sure as kittens have itches if you give' em half a chance.”
― Patricia Briggs, Silence Fallen

“We watched the rest of the movie without talking. When it was over, Bran said, I love you."
I said, " I know." Adam nudged me with his shoulder, and I laughed. "I love you, too.”
― Patricia Briggs, Silence Fallen

“just because one is submissive doesn’t make them stupid. My experience has suggested the opposite. We have a saying, ‘Listen when the soft ones speak.’” Smith”
― Patricia Briggs, Silence Fallen

“Vampires did the one-name thing before Madonna and Prince.”
― Patricia Briggs, Silence Fallen

“I knew a little bit about Prague. The first thing that came to mind was that Prague citizens had a habit of throwing powerful officials out of windows—the Second Defenestration of Prague began the Thirty Years War in 1618. There wasn’t another capital city with a First Defenestration that I knew of, let alone a second one. Prague was full of my kind of people.”
― Patricia Briggs, Silence Fallen

“Running from vampires, again. Still. Go me!”
― Patricia Briggs, Silence Fallen

“You going to watch my butt all day, or are you going to join me?" asked my mate.
"What if I had said I was going to watch your butt all day?" I asked curiously as I opened the door an stepped into the hot water.
"I've been considering belly-dancing lessons," he told me in a serious voice.”
― Patricia Briggs, Silence Fallen

“If you are taken by your enemies,” he said, “don’t wait to escape. The hour you are taken is when you will be at your strongest. Time gives them the opportunity to starve you, to torture you, to break you and make you weak. You have to escape as soon as you can.”
― Patricia Briggs, Silence Fallen

“Try to look unimportant, Sarge; maybe they’ll be low on ammo.” “Too late,” Adam said with an involuntary grin. He hadn’t heard that phrase since ’Nam, when officers were favorite targets of the enemy.”
― Patricia Briggs, Silence Fallen

“I only get weirder the longer you know me,” I told him, quoting one of the T-shirts I’d gotten for my last birthday.”
― Patricia Briggs, Silence Fallen

“Alpha of the Vltava Pack. Been around since the Middle fucking Ages. Apparently a baker-of all the sodding things for a fearsome Alpha to be. We are glad we don't have to tell people our Alpha is a motherehumping baker.”
― Patricia Briggs, Silence Fallen

“Yes,” Elizaveta said venomously. “We are all beautiful here. Can we get going? Or do I need to get the makeup mirror out of my purse so you two can admire yourselves a little longer?”
― Patricia Briggs, Silence Fallen

“There was a kind of special-hell dimension that existed only when boredom and terror combined, because numbness never quite settles.”
― Patricia Briggs, Silence Fallen

“artists and acrobats, the walls were enough to keep most people in. I don’t get super strength or scary points. But speed is my friend, and I caught her flat-footed because she thought one thing was happening when it was really something else. She thought I was running from her—and I was just trying to get up some speed. I ran for the wall. I don’t know what she thought I was doing, but she chased me hard for most of the distance. But as I approached the giant stone wall that surrounded the grounds, she slowed, anticipating that I would be stopped by it. A few months ago, a bunch of the pack had been at Warren’s house watching a Jackie Chan movie—I don’t remember which one because we were having a marathon—and Jackie just ran up a wall like magic. Warren had a wall around his backyard. Someone stopped the movie, and we’d all gone out and tried it. A lot. The werewolves had gotten moderately proficient, but my light weight and speed had made me the grand champion. The trick is to find a corner and have enough speed to make it to the top. Instead of stopping at the wall, I Jackie-Channed it up the stone surfaces and leaped over. I caught the werewolf totally by surprise. I don’t expect Bonarata and she watched old martial arts movies together. It didn’t seem like that kind of relationship. Her pause meant that the wolf, who could have caught me because as agile as I’d learned to be imitating Jackie Chan, going up was still slower than going forward, had missed her chance. I didn’t intend to give her another. I changed to coyote as I came off the top of the wall. I’m not a were-anything. It takes them time to change from human to wolf. I could do it—well, in this case I could do it in the time it took me to drop off the wall. I landed on four feet, running as fast as I could down a narrow road that was walled on both sides. I had no idea where I was, but out was a good direction, and I didn’t hesitate as I headed one way. Nor did I slow”
― Patricia Briggs, Silence Fallen

“Witches are bitches and they’ll burn your britches sure as kittens have itches if you give ’em half a chance.” Elizaveta”
― Patricia Briggs, Silence Fallen

“You are looking at this wrong. You think I hold my territory by the might of my fist. But that's not it. I hold my territory by consent of the governed. I think it is a very American concept, which might be why you never looked for it."
— Adam Hauptman, Columbia Basin Pack Alpha, to Iacopo (Jacob) Bonarata, Lord of the Night (master vampire of Milan)”
― Patricia Briggs, Silence Fallen

“personal wealth had been viewed as a moral failure. I wasn’t sure that wasn’t correct.”
― Patricia Briggs, Silence Fallen

“What were my parents thinking? Larry. Even worse, though, is that my full name is Lawrence—which makes me sound like a proper wimp.” He had kind eyes. “We’re”
― Patricia Briggs, Silence Fallen

“I may be fragile, but I stand on the shoulders of giants ...”
― Patricia Briggs, Silence Fallen

“And Captain Larson [...] you can have gold, and you can have grog. You go after another woman and you'll be pulling back a stub.”
― Patricia Briggs, Silence Fallen

“Witches are bitches and they’ll burn your britches sure as kittens have itches if you give ’em half a chance.”
― Patricia Briggs, Silence Fallen

“Prague was full of my kind of people.”
― Patricia Briggs, Silence Fallen

“Most English speakers in Europe, I was discovering, had learned to speak British English rather than the American version.”
― Patricia Briggs, Silence Fallen

“Bonarata was charming, but I couldn’t forget or forgive him for”
― Patricia Briggs, Silence Fallen