Burn Bright Quotes

“You cannot look at a person, and say, ‘If I could change this or that, if I could pick what I want and discard other things, I could love this one.’ Such a love is pale and weak—and doomed to failure.”
― Patricia Briggs, Burn Bright

“She played the first movement of Beethoven’s Pathétique Sonata.” “Number Eight,” said Anna. “Opus 13?” He nodded. “For almost two years, she played it every music night.” “What’s wrong with that?” Anna asked. “It’s a beautiful piece.” Charles grinned. “You’d think that. And it is. But I hear it in my nightmares, and I imagine Da does, too. You can’t play a tuned piano out of tune, but that’s the only thing she didn’t do to that poor piece of music. “Every performance was something new. Once she performed with a blindfold. Once she set a metronome up and never once played at the speed of the metronome. Once she played it at a quarter speed and added the other two movements.” He laughed at the memory. “People would think she was done, start to clap, and she’d play another note. A very slow note. It felt like it went on forever. But she never quite tipped my da into anything but white-lipped anger.”
― Patricia Briggs, Burn Bright

“Ours, said Brother Wolf. She is perfect, our soul mate, our anchor, the reason we were created. So that we could be hers.”
― Patricia Briggs, Burn Bright

“I do,” she said. “I even understand it, much as it pains me to say so. Bran is funny about Mercy. If you were that funny about Mercy, I would feel the same way Leah does—no matter how likable I might find her.”

“Bran’s not funny about her,” he told Anna, feeling uncomfortable. “He thinks of her as his daughter, and he doesn’t have any other daughters still alive. There’s nothing strange about it.”

“Or so everyone is much happier believing,” agreed Anna blandly. “Including Bran. We’ll leave it at that. So the musical evenings were a thing between Bran and Mercy?”

“Not like that,” Charles said, feeling defensive because Anna put her finger right on something that he’d been ignoring for a long time. He took a deep breath. “All right. All right. You might have a point about Da and Mercy.”

She smiled, just a little.

He threw up his hands. “Okay. Yes. I saw it, of course I did. As did Leah. But my da would never have moved on Mercy. Say what you will about him—but his wolf has accepted Leah as his mate, and he will not cheat on her. And Mercy has never seen him as anything except a father figure and her Alpha. That’s what she needed, and that’s what he gave her. I don’t think Mercy has ever recognized that it could be more than that.”
― Patricia Briggs, Burn Bright

“Fire is a powerful thing. It cleanses as it destroys- and it brings light to darkness.”
― Patricia Briggs, Burn Bright

“Canadian hikers would be too polite to end up as bodies. Thus the bodies must not belong to random hikers.”
― Patricia Briggs, Burn Bright

“Double-zap,” said Tag. “That is not a technical term, I hope,” murmured Asil. “Only the most technically advanced people can use ‘double-zap’ correctly,” Anna told Asil sotto voce. “You and I shouldn’t try it.”
― Patricia Briggs, Burn Bright

“The problem was that she didn’t need rescuing, except maybe from them. The force of their concern, of their knowing that she had been a victim made her feel like a victim again.”
― Patricia Briggs, Burn Bright

“I would rather you not get hurt by Viking twins . . .” She had to say it again. “Because Viking twins are apparently a thing here.”
― Patricia Briggs, Burn Bright

“His self-control was aided by the short time it had to stay strong because, from somewhere out of sight, Asil called, “I’ve got another one up here for you techies. Está roto. What is it you said about the last one, Tag? Pretty borked. This one is pretty borked, too.”
― Patricia Briggs, Burn Bright

“was in a battle for my soul, and the evil spirit that was trying to possess me has been, very slowly, winning.” He smiled broadly, raised his glass at Anna, and said, “Until today.”
― Patricia Briggs, Burn Bright

“So why didn’t it do that to you?” she asked, her voice tight as she snapped the bag out and opened it. “I’m tougher than a basket of fruit?” suggested Charles,”
― Patricia Briggs, Burn Bright

“movement in the small room left him directly between Wellesley and Anna. “She is a baby—and we know”
― Patricia Briggs, Burn Bright

“taught that people are not to ‘be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.”
― Patricia Briggs, Burn Bright

“It’s bad to have an enemy with the kinds of resources these people apparently have—but it is infinitely worse to have crazy people as enemies.”
― Patricia Briggs, Burn Bright

“But despair was not a synonym for sorrow or regret. Despair was the loss of hope.”
― Patricia Briggs, Burn Bright

“He did not except the fire to destroy everything they hadn’t found.”
― Patricia Briggs, Burn Bright

“with another car of the same make and”
― Patricia Briggs, Burn Bright