Top 100 Anne Bishop Quotes
#1. And getting licked by someone furry wasn't threatening but being kissed by the non furred male was, which made sense when the furry and non furred were the same person. Wolf.
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#2. Nothing wrong with the way your mother looks. First thing in the morning, last thing at night, and every hour in between, she looks just fine.
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#3. Earth natives didn't absorb everything from the forms they had chosen over the long years the sun had risen and set over Namid. They were first and always terra indigene. But they learned from the predators they became, and certain traits were passed down to the young of each form. Yes,
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#4. Lesson one, bitch. Don't start a pissing contest with someone who has the strength and temper to hurt you.
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#5. She was the most painful, most glorious dance of his life
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#6. They'll come back or they won't, Simon thought as he read the back copy on a couple of books and set them aside for himself.
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#7. If she didn't heal emotionally, if she could never endure a man's touch ... He wasn't the key that could unlock that final door. There was much he could do, but not that.
He wasn't the key. Daemon Sadi was.
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#8. Some, like Lorne, who ran the Three Ps - the shop for paper, printing, and postage - went on as they had before.
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#9. Was she cold? If he'd stayed with her last night, she wouldn't be cold.
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#10. The lover is the father's mirror. The brother stands between. The mirror spins, spins, spins. Blood. So much blood. He clings to the island of maybe. The bridge will have to rise from the sea. The threads are not yet in place.
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#11. Jaenelle leaned over the narrow window seat, gulping in the winter air. "It hurts so much to live here, Daemon," she whimpered as he cradled her in his arms. "Sometimes it hurts so much."
"Shh." He stroked her hair. "Shh.
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#12. It was easier when all we wanted to do was eat them and take their stuff, he grumbled.
And it had been easier when he hadn't cared if he made any of them cry.
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#13. She swallowed hard. "I want to try skinny-dipping." He was so still, she wasn't sure he was even breathing.
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#14. The courtyard kept changing, dazzling her with the flowers that bloomed between one day and the next, with the bare branches of trees that were swollen with the buds of new leaves and then fuzzed with green. Every day, she drove a familiar road through a new place.
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#15. Today the man looked a bit . . . chewed. No, humans wouldn't say "chewed." Frazzled. Was that the human equivalent?
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#16. He might know things Meg wanted to learn, but he would never be as thorough about cleaning the salt and butter off her hands after movie night.
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#17. More than a shadow and less than a soul.
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#18. Red flickered in his amber eyes and he snarled at her. "If you ever scare me like this again, I will eat you!" Then he pressed his forehead against her arm and whined.
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#19. He hurt because she was hurting. He wanted to lick her face and find a meaty bone for her to gnaw on. He wanted to entice her into a game so she would think about something else. But
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#20. But wouldn't it be lovely to watch two people fall in love?
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#21. How do we judge a dark landscape? Is it dark because the ones who already live there won't let humans have their piece of the world? Do we judge who is good and who is bad by the color and shape of their skin - or by what resonates in their hearts?
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#22. You put a sleep spell on me, didn't you?" she grumbled.
"You'll thank me for it later," Lucivar replied, kissing her temple. I love you. "That's good to hear, witchling, because I love you, too." She was dreaming. Of course she was dreaming. But she smiled and let the dream take her.
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#23. He waited until they were driving to work before he mentioned the morning field trip. "Why do a field trip?" Meg asked. "Because someone untied its shoes?" Meg frowned. "That makes no sense." "It makes as much sense as most human jokes." "That's true." Simon
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#24. How does a large slice of fresh bread soaked in beef broth sound?" About as edible as the table leg. "Do I have any choices?" "No."
"Sounds wonderful.
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#25. Opportunities and choices. When a person makes a heart wish, that wish resonates through the currents and things will happen to give the person an opportunity to make the wish come true. Like a hand offered and accepted.
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#26. I refused to be less than what I am, and I made them deal with me on my own terms.
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#29. Vlad said, sounding regretful.
Simon replied.
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#30. When a man wears his pants that tight, they tend to pinch his balls, and that tends to pinch his temper.
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#31. Because you're going to help me train a seven-year-old Witch who's got the raw power right now to turn us both into dust and yet" - he dropped the shoe onto the chair - "is abysmal at basic Craft.
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#33. Do you know what the Sharkgard call humans on a ship?>
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#34. *No,* he said gently when her words finally stopped, *they don't want you. They don't love you, can't love you. But I do love you. The Priest loves you. The beautiful ones, the gentle ones - they love you. We've waited so long for you to come. We need you with us. We need you to walk among us.*
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#36. There are some questions that shouldn't be asked until a person is mature enough to appreciate the answers.
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#37. It was hard to be around Jean because he looked at her and saw what Meg's future would have been if she hadn't been brave enough to run away - and if Jean hadn't been brave enough to stay.
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#38. Why would I care what you looked like? The flesh was the shell that housed the glory.
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#39. he was the friend who would become an enemy in order to remain a friend. 3
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#40. Why did humans give their offspring fake versions of predators that would happily eat those offspring? Those
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#41. Nathan said nothing for a moment. Then, "There's nothing in my fur, is there?"
Simon gave the other Wolf a careful look. "No boogers."
"Good. I hate washing boogers out of fur."
"Who doesn't? What comes out of human noses is disgusting ...
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#43. Misery is a heart that can never be content with what it has and, by always craving something more, brings about its own destruction. And desolation is a heart so fearful of losing what it hoards that it never knows the richness that comes from being able to give.
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#44. When honor and the Law no longer stand on the same side of the line, how do we choose[?]
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#45. As they walked toward the group waiting for them by the cars, Simon's hand brushed against Meg's. He hesitated for a step or two; then he took her hand, ready to release her if she growled an objection. But after a startled look, she smiled and curled her fingers around his.
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#46. I'll see if I can find someone in the Toland Police Department who doesn't use his brains to wipe his backside.
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#47. Human females, they're kind of crazy during this time aren't they?
If you chose to believe the stories written by male writers.
They heard a bang and thump from the kitchen. Followed by Meg yelling at something.
That many males can't be wrong.
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#48. I'm confused."
"Where Meg is concerned, you've been confused since you met her.
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#49. Do any of them realize that Simon Wolfgard is falling in love with Meg Corbyn? Monty wondered. Does Wolfgard understand his own response to the girl? What about Meg? How does she feel? What would the rest of the Others do if one of their kind did fall in love with a human?
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#50. Some men die for lack of love ... some die because of it. Think about it. - Daemon
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#51. When you're fully healed," she said sternly, then spoiled it with a silvery, velvet-coated laugh. "Oh, Lucivar, the dragons who live on the Fyreborn Islands are going to love you. You not only have wings, you're big enough to wave whomp.
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#52. But during the day ... that was life. The collection of small details that made up a shared day were what gave richness to what happened in the bed at night.
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#53. A woman with an education may be able to spend more time sitting in a chair instead of lying on her back. A sound advantage, I should think.
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#54. What did you do to Zuulaman ?"
"Zuulaman ? That's a word without meaning."
"It's a place, as you very well know."
Saetan shook his head. "It doesn't exist.
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#56. Jaenelle squirmed. My ... mate ... is trapped in the Twisted Kingdom. If I don't show him the way out, he'll be destroyed.
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#57. I am Tersa the Weaver, Tersa the Liar, Tersa the Fool.
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#58. She hadn't met Earth or Fire, the other two cousins, but she'd filled a couple of library requests for each of them in the past week. If they were around, they would help her. Wouldn't they?
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#59. For a moment, Meg couldn't think, could barely breathe as a drawing of a cow with arrows pointing to the various cuts of meat popped into her head. Then she imagined a drawing of a human with the same kinds of arrows. Could there be a sign like that in the butcher shop?
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#60. In archetypes, there is the Nurturer and the Warrior. Different kinds of strengths that, ideally, complement each other and are equally respected.
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#61. Don't let them win. Fight with everything that's in you.
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#62. We are what we are. Nothing more, nothing less. There is good and evil among every kind of people. It's the evil among us who rule now.
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#63. Simon's relationship with Meg was too complex for anything as simple as sex.
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#64. What are you going to call them?" Meg asked. "Lunch?" Simon offered. The female pack gave him a look that made him think running away would be a good idea, if he wasn't the leader and couldn't back down.
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#65. Wait! I'm the one who's supposed to chase!
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#66. But naked wasn't something done around human pups - although he wanted to ask the men why naked from the waist up was all right for them but females remained covered. That didn't seem fair. Shifting
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#67. Our recovery of hope - full colour, three-dimensional, hard working, clear thinking, wildly radical, living hope - is our key to liberation.
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#68. When would humans realize they always started the fights that would kill them? He
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#69. Let your heart travel lightly. Because what you bring with you becomes part of the landscape.
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#70. W-what are you?"
Selena looked down at her rival. "What you should have been and never were. The Queen of the Witches.
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#71. You always believed we could survive in the outside world. I'm doing everything I can to give at least some of us a chance of not only surviving but truly living.
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#72. One store owner said he was going to leave a dictionary on a public bench so the vandals could at least spell the obscenities correctly. It
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#73. The first card was a beautifully rendered but terrifying representation of what Henry guessed was one of the Elders' forms. Next was half a Wolf cookie. Last was a card that had a simple drawing of a smiley face. "That is sooooo wrong," Merri Lee said, shuddering. "Yes, it is." Henry picked
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#74. He couldn't regret Daemon's and Lucivar's existence, but he'd tortured himself for centuries with reports of what had been done to them. - Saetan
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#75. If we don't find what we seek what happen then? Nothing? Everything? Are we set free by our failure, or are we doomed because we failed to find the answer that would have saved us? And how are we supposed to know the difference?
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#76. It felt uncomfortable to lie to someone who was being kind. She hadn't known a lie could have a physical weight.
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#77. I lost nothing I regret losing," Witch said softly. "I am what I want to be.
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#78. You're in the Courtyard.
Whatever rules humans have for employers aren't my rules unless I say they're my rules.
So I can hire you even though you don't have any idea what you're doing, and I can fire you for having stinky hair!
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#79. What you give comes back to you. It's not tit for tat
life isn't that simple
but what you give always comes back to you.
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#80. Meg nodded. She didn't understand the feeling, but she turned the words into a kind of image that she could recall later. "Anyway,
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#81. He gently kissed that scar and felt something changing inside him - just a flutter of change, there and gone, but leaving its mark.
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#82. Do you always ask me the same questions you ask him?"
"It depends on whether or not I get an answer.
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#83. Whether it was true or not, it eased his heart to think there was something beyond the physical plane, something that felt benevolent toward humans, because the gods knew there wasn't much on the physical plane that felt benevolent toward them.
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#84. He picked up a pen and moved a couple of papers on the desk. He'd seen a human in a movie do that as a way to end a meeting. Apparenty the females hadn't seen that movie.
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#85. Is there some kind of rule for when Sam should be a boy and when he's a Wolf?"
"A Wolf lifts his leg and yellows up the snow. A boy has to use the toilet."
"And that will work?"
"Only if he needs to pee.
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#86. Werewolves and Arabians. It's like chocolate and peanut butter - a delicious combination.
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#88. Daemon had written: "What do you do when she asks a question no man would give a child an answer to?"
Saetan had replied: "Hope you're obliging enough to answer it for me. However, if you're backed into a corner, refer her to me. I've become accustomed to being shocked.
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#89. But other beings shouldn't be forgotten. You knew that when you were a student, felt that need from those no one else wanted to think about. Even demons need a home. Even a dark landscape should feel the warmth of the Light. Why have you forgotten that?
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#90. Not fault of teaching spider if little spider pay more attention to catching fly than doing lesson.
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#91. [ ... ][I]f you adapted too much in order to deal with them, you ran the risk of forgetting who you were and you could end up being neither and nothing.
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#92. Maybe you should go home and rest, Simon told Meg. Maybe he could go home with her and they could cuddle for a while or play a game. Or she could watch a movie with him and pet him.
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#93. Sometimes I think her chest is made of ice, and she has to stay emotionally cold to hide the smell of a roting heart.
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#94. Thera started sputtering. "You fool. You idiot." She stopped because Blaethe's response was much pithier and far more creative. She nodded approvingly. "What he said.
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#95. She stared at him for a long moment. Then she put her hand in his . . . and broke his heart.
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#97. For now, he and Meg were going to have the adventure of seeing a new place and having a new experience. Together.
He wasn't human. Would never be human. And Meg didn't expect him to be. But feeling her hand in his, Simon thought maybe he could learn to be human enough.
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#98. But what would they have said to their Liaison? It's like this, Meg. We didn't like that Asia Crane, so we ate her.
When dealing with humans, honesty isn't always the best policy, Vlad thought
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#99. Henry studied Merri Lee, then Meg. "Humans don't like mice?" "Not in the building!" Meg said. "And not around food," Merri Lee added. The three terra indigene looked baffled. "But it's fresh meat," the brown-haired woman finally said.
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#100. The sweatshirt was big on her and she looked ridiculous. He liked it. And he liked that she was wearing something that carried his scent.
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