Winter Lost Quotes

“Did you ever skip school?” “I grew up under the Marrok’s rule,” I told her. “He was very strict.” I paused. “Of course I did.”
― Patricia Briggs, Winter Lost

“And the secret for making people think you knew what you were doing was keeping your mouth shut about what had really happened.”
― Patricia Briggs, Winter Lost

“She was staring at him. “I could not live with losing you,” he told her, his throat tight. “There are times when I have had to let you go out into danger without me. More times when I haven’t known about threats to your life until they were long past. But this time…this time I have the privilege of being backup while you head out to see if we can rescue your brother.”
― Patricia Briggs, Winter Lost

“Of course he’s an extraordinary idiot. Take any skill and add years of practice and you get extraordinary.”
― Patricia Briggs, Winter Lost

“Fine. When they shovel our frozen corpses out next spring, they can put 'They thought it would be fun' on our gravestone.”
― Patricia Briggs, Winter Lost

“Adam and I didn’t fight very often. He didn’t enjoy being mad at me, so mostly I tried to resist the temptation. I couldn’t say why it was such a turn-on or why it made me feel safe when he was angry. Perversity, probably—it was my besetting sin, after all. Sometimes you just had to accept who you were and move on.”
― Patricia Briggs, Winter Lost

“hard,” he’d said. “Any bruises I get will heal up quick.”
― Patricia Briggs, Winter Lost

“But stories are powerful lies because they are true in a way that real life isn’t.”
― Patricia Briggs, Winter Lost

“Saddest thin in the world is listening to a nineteen minutes of a twenty-minute sex scene," said Sherwood in a mock-mournful voice.”
― Patricia Briggs, Winter Lost

“Are you embarrassed that your audiobook started in the middle of a very hot sex scene between three men in a swimming pool?" asked Sherood politely. "There's no reason to be embarrassed about that.”
― Patricia Briggs, Winter Lost

“Locks only eve keep out people who aren't determined to come in.”
― Patricia Briggs, Winter Lost

“Timor mortis conturbat me, I thought. The fear of death disquiets me.”
― Patricia Briggs, Winter Lost

“I reached out into the air and closed my hand on the walking stick.”
― Patricia Briggs, Winter Lost

“With Mercy, everything that can be worse is. Always.”
― Patricia Briggs, Winter Lost

“Okay,” she said after a few miles. “But it was easier to be mad at you instead of scared for my brother. Could you do something to make me mad, please?” “I need inspiration,” he apologized. “Maybe if you could say something stupid or offer to risk your life for people I don’t care about?” She laughed, as he meant her to. It didn’t last long, but she didn’t resume chewing on her lip.”
― Patricia Briggs, Winter Lost

“She liked to think things through sometimes, his Mercy. But she put a hand on his leg and he wished for the Chevy truck he’d driven in high school because it had had a bench seat. Eventually she said, “It was easier when I was mad at you. I can’t shake the feeling that this is stupid.”
― Patricia Briggs, Winter Lost

“One of the first things he’d noticed about Mercy was that she understood people. She really knew how to get under their skin. Under his skin.”
― Patricia Briggs, Winter Lost

“She blinked at him, her other eye opening for a moment as she tried to read his expression. He wasn’t sure what she saw, but it seemed to make her happy. “Okay. Didn’t want to lie to you. Tempted, though.” “I get that,” he said. “Me, too, sometimes.” Both of her eyes narrowed on him, more alert than they had been. “Anything I need to know?” “Not tonight,” he told her. “We can talk in the morning.” “Anyone die?” “No one you know,” he assured her. “New Mexico business.” She nodded and closed her eyes. “Gonna sleep now.”
― Patricia Briggs, Winter Lost

“Their pack was, as Mercy put it, about half a century behind contemporary social norms. She’d usually add, “That means that you are about a century ahead of most packs.”
― Patricia Briggs, Winter Lost

“When he’d done that, he punched in Darryl’s number. Darryl, whom Adam was about to drop into the middle of a screaming mess. He made himself stop smiling before he hit the last number. People could hear when you were smiling.”
― Patricia Briggs, Winter Lost

“I grinned and went back to work. Zee broke first. By lunchtime, though, we were both humming the stupid song. An hour later, to change things up, I sang the first line of “Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polkadot Bikini,” and our earworm grew by one. The phone rang as Zee was fighting back with “It’s a Small World,” which was cheating.”
― Patricia Briggs, Winter Lost

“No holocaust cloak,” I murmured. “Or wheelbarrow, either,” she agreed.”
― Patricia Briggs, Winter Lost

“We are all preparing to fight the previous war,”
― Patricia Briggs, Winter Lost