Mercy Thompson Quotes

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My wife was going to fight him,” explained Adam. “I had to protect him from that.

Adam, Frost Burned

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“Do they always flirt with biblical quotes?” Asil asked Tad. In long-suffering tones, Tad said, “They can flirt with the periodic table or a restaurant menu. We’ve learned to live with it. Get a room, you guys.

Asil and Tad, Frost Burned

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‘ Obstreperous,’ huh,” said Tad. “I see you’ve been using that Big Word of the Day calendar I got you last Christmas.” “That is irrefragable,” I told him solemnly.

Mercy and Tad, Frost Burned

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Werewolf games,” Mercy said solemnly, “play for keeps, or go home.” She was so cute sometimes it made Adam’s heart hurt.

Frost Burned

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I am always careful with the truth. It is a powerful thing and deserves respect.

Tad, Frost Burned

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But I don’t have big guns,” she said. Then she dropped her head in her hands. “I can’t believe I just said that. I can’t believe I said that to someone I’ve just met.

Margaret, Fire Touched

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Death is not to be feared. Death is easy. It is living that is brutal.

Margaret, Fire Touched

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Adam was right, Thomas was a goner. People who say that vampires don’t care about anyone except themselves are mostly right—but sometimes they are very and lethally wrong.

Mercy Thompson, Fire Touched

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As children, we learn that tears have power to move the people who care for us. We make noise when we cry in a bid for attention, for help, for support.

Mercy Thompson, FIre Touched

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Power comes from three places, Aiden. It comes from the power that you have as an individual. Some people have a lot of that—Zee has a lot of power just from being himself. Someone can leverage the power they have to take more power—but power taken by force only lasts as long as you can hold it. Most dictators don’t live long lives.

Mercy Thompson, Fire Touched

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I shook my head. “Not really. She had no trouble defending herself—and she knew there was a houseful of people who would make sure she was safe. What you did do was tell her that you had no intention of letting her be safe with you.

Mercy Thompson, Fire Touched

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Honey,” he drawled, pulling on his Southern roots. “When a wolf watches a lamb, he’s not thinking about the lamb’s mommy.

Adam Hauptman, Moon Called

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I remember staring at the man’s back and understanding that, although I must hide from everyone else, I could not hide from myself anymore. So I had Karen put the tattoo on the center of my body, where I could protect my secret and it could keep me whole. I’d finally started to enjoy being who I was instead of wishing that I were a werewolf or human so I’d fit in better.

Mercy Thompson. Moon Called 

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Vampire politics, I thought. Humans, werewolves, or, apparently, vampires, it doesn’t matter; get more than three of them together and the jockeying for power begins.

Mercy Thopson, Moon Called

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I smiled at him, thanked him for the service, and wished him well. Love thy enemies, it says in the scriptures. My foster mother always added, “At the very least, you will be polite to them.

Mercy Thompson - Moon Called