I narrowed my eyes at him. "Stuff that. I'll write a doctoral thesis. Then I can go do what most of the other people with doctoral degrees in anthropology do."
"What's that?" asked Calvin.
"You don't need to encourage her," said Adam seriously, but his eyes laughed at me.
"The same thing that people with degrees in history do," I said. "Fix cars or serve frnech fries and bad hamburgers.
Maybe I should go back to teaching school about crazy people instead of being one. (Jim Alvin)
Patricia Briggs[C]hildren were a much more difficult audience than adults because no on had yet had a chance to teach them that it was better to be polite than honest.
Patricia BriggsTags: humor children life-lessons
And thus Charles found himself wandering around a hotel, trailing federal agents as he held a cardboard coffee cup holder in each hand, instead of out killing misbehaving werewolves.
Patricia BriggsTags: humor plans coffee werewolves alpha-and-omega charles-cornick fair-game
Anna looked at Brother Wolf. ‘I’d like to see someone try to put a radio control collar on Charles. It might be fun to watch on YouTube.
Patricia BriggsTags: anna alpha-and-omega
I thought it would be quieter here.” [Anna] hadn’t meant to say anything, but the noise startled her.
“The wind in the trees,” Bran said. “And there are some birds that stay year-round. Sometimes when the wind is still and the cold is upon us, the quiet is so deep you can feel it in your bones.
Tags: silence quiet cry-wolf alpha-omega bran-cornick anna-cornick marrok
Fortunately, he'd found that most people were easy to locate at five thirty in the morning.
Patricia BriggsTags: humor morning alpha-and-omega cry-wolf charles-cornick wake-up
She was comfortable enough that she was beginning to suffer from the most chronic condition of slavery— boredom.
Patricia BriggsTis the gift to be gentle, ’tis the gift to be fair,
’Tis the gift to wake and breathe the morning air,
To walk every day in the path that we choose,
Is the gift that we pray we will never never lose.
Reincarnation?”
He shrugged. “I’ve never seen any evidence that it’s real. But I’ve never seen anything that disproves it either. I believe the afterlife is better than what we have here—and it would take something extraordinary to make someone willing to come back.
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