Dav Ito (they/them) quoted Winter Lost by Patricia Briggs (Mercy Thompson, #14)
He [Warren] was today-years-old when he realized that he could still blush like a schoolgirl.
— Winter Lost by Patricia Briggs (Mercy Thompson, #14) (86%)
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He [Warren] was today-years-old when he realized that he could still blush like a schoolgirl.
— Winter Lost by Patricia Briggs (Mercy Thompson, #14) (86%)
...they were exchanging absurd work stories. When it was his [Adam's} turn, he told them about how four of his men, responding to an alarm, chased the suspect down into a back office--and encountered a skunk. The skunk won handily.
— Winter Lost by Patricia Briggs (Mercy Thompson, #14) (79%)
At least it wasn't an emu?
Content warning CW for incest, Spoiler for Winter Lost plotline
"She feeds on it, and it feeds on her--as long as she is married to a member of the family."
"Are we talking about 'I am my own grandpa'?" said Adam somewhat obscurely. "Let me guess, she is also Andrew's great-grandmother."
"Great-great-grandmother. But she was also that husband's great-grandmother." Liam sighed. "She's been marrying her own descendants every few generations."
— Winter Lost by Patricia Briggs (Mercy Thompson, #14) (71%)
Faeries are crazy, but I suppose when immortality and magic and power are on the line, humans can be pretty crazy too.
Don had had no idea that one of their [Hauptman Security's] projects was entirely peopled by witches doing magic instead of chemists doing...what chemists did.
— Winter Lost by Patricia Briggs (Mercy Thompson, #14) (70%)
Content warning Potential spoilers for Winter Lost plotline
There were, I thought, a lot of magical folk trapped in a lodge in the middle of a blizzard. What were the odds?
— Winter Lost by Patricia Briggs (Mercy Thompson, #14) (63%)
Content warning Potential spoiler for Soul Taken (book 13) and upcoming plotlines not yet realized.
That had been magic; they had all felt it when something happened. At that moment, he'd gained a link to the land his pack claimed for their own. He hadn't figured out just what it was good for yet--he'd never gotten a warning of trouble from it.
— Winter Lost by Patricia Briggs (Mercy Thompson, #14) (34%)
The important thing was not yesterday--the important thing was tomorrow.
— Winter Lost by Patricia Briggs (Mercy Thompson, #14) (32%)
"Most origin stories are ridiculous, which does not make them untrue..."
— Winter Lost by Patricia Briggs (Mercy Thompson, #14) (26%)
"You are hard to kill, too," said Mary Jo. "You shouldn't be, but you are."
— Winter Lost by Patricia Briggs (Mercy Thompson, #14) (19%)
"Haven't you learned by now? Magic never help."
— Winter Lost by Patricia Briggs (Mercy Thompson, #14) (3%)
“I change into a wolf at the full moon,” Adam said dryly. “Who am I to worry about someone making decisions about who and what they are?”
— Winter Lost by Patricia Briggs (Mercy Thompson, #14) (13%)
Trans representation done right. And Adam with the perfect response.
Content warning quote from chapter 11
"Magic's going back into the world."
— Discord's Apple by Carrie Vaughn (53%%)
It seemed the more lives she lived, the harder it was to feel at home anywhere.
— Midnight Library by Matt Haig, Matt Haig (75%)