Top 160 Anne Bishop Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Everything has a price.”

— Anne Bishop

2. “Everything has a price. It’s just what you’re willing to pay for it.”

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3. “Don’t let them win. Fight with everything that’s in you.”

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4. “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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5. “Words lie. Blood doesn’t.”

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6. “I can heal the scars on your body, but I can’t heal the scars of the soul. Not yours, not mine. You have to learn to live with them. You have to choose to live beyond them.”

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7. “More than a shadow and less than a soul.”

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8. “Let your heart travel lightly. Because what you bring with you becomes part of the landscape.”

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9. “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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10. “Perhaps not willingly, but pain can make a man do things he wouldn’t willingly do.”

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11. “Are there weapons in a bookstore?′ ‘It’s a store full of books, which are objects that can be thrown as well as read,’ Monty replied blandly. The Crows cocked his head. ‘I had no idea you humans lived with so much danger.”

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12. “A dumb-ass piece of wisdom that has been proven wrong too many times to count. Words can cause as much damage as a fist. They can leave deep scars that never fully heal. And they can kill.”

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13. “The moon waxes and wanes. The tides ebb and flow. The seasons turn, each in their own time. Ever changing, never changing. Of course you’ll change. The dance of life spirals, remember? Even when you return to a point, you’re not in the same place. The dance would have changed you, whether you’d come here or stayed home.”

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14. “There are some questions that shouldn’t be asked until a person is mature enough to appreciate the answers.”

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15. “Crystal told me that Charlie Crowgard wrote a song about the fight. It’s called ‘Teakettle Woman and Broomstick Girl,’ and it’s so popular with the terra indigene who have heard it, he’s going to record it so the rest of us can hear it too.”

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16. “Briarwood is the pretty poison. There is no cure for Briarwood.”

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17. “You’re a virgin. Hell’s fire, Mother Night, and may the Darkness be merciful, you’re a virgin.” Still clutching the coat, she eyed him warily. “There’s no reason to get hysterical. It’s not contagious.” Jared.”

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18. “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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19. “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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20. “She’s magic, Cassandra. A single flower blooming in an endless desert.”

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21. “We know how it ends practically before it starts. That’s why stories appeal to us. They give us the clarity and simplicity our real lives lack.”

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22. “You couldn’t help someone who didn’t want help. That was a hard, and bitter, life lesson.”

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23. “Okay. I picked up a movie to watch tonight. You can watch it with me if you like. It’s a chick movie. Merri Lee said that means girls like it, not that there are small birds in it.”

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24. “Mother Night and May The Darkness Be Merciful!”

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25. “The Dimwit’s Guide to the Female Mind might assist your efforts in understanding human females. But it must be pointed out that this subject can be a dangerous adventure and should be undertaken with extreme caution. After all, human males have been trying to understand their females for generations, and most of the time they come away from these encounters looking like someone stuck their tails into an electric socket.”

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26. “I am Tersa the Weaver, Tersa the Liar, Tersa the Fool.”

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27. “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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28. “Not fault of teaching spider if little spider pay more attention to catching fly than doing lesson.”

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29. “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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30. “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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31. “But wouldn’t it be lovely to watch two people fall in love?”

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32. “Stubborn, snarly male.”

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33. “My name is Hope Wolfsong,” she whispered. “I am not cs821. Not anymore. Never again.”

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34. “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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35. “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 and pet him. “Merri Lee is helping me make some sample packages of cookies,” Meg said, sounding like the only game she wanted to play right now was whack a Wolf.”

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36. “And thought about the female who, despite being human, he was beginning to see as a friend.”

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37. “Dancing was the only activity he enjoyed with a woman, and he regretted that court dancing was no longer in vogue. If you want to bed a woman, do it in the bedroom. If you want to seduce her, do it in the dance.”

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38. “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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39. “Forgiveness doesn’t work that way. You may want to forgive, but you can’t do it yet. Forgiving someone can take weeks, months, years. Sometimes it takes a lifetime.”

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40. “Simon didn’t want to poke his nose into a “girl thing.” Potentially dangerous territory, that.”

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41. “It takes time to find the courage to display the parts of yourself that aren’t bright and shining. But you have to see them, have to know they’re inside you... shadows in the garden. They are a part of all of us.”

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42. “She was the most painful, most glorious dance of his life.”

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43. “I’m not cs747,” she whispered defiantly as she shifted on her cot in order to lean back against the wall. “My name is Jean.”

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44. “No. I’m not hot, and I don’t want to do the Squeaky Dance.” Simon sighed. This day was full of disappointments.”

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45. “The other thing I realized by the end of the evening was that humans and the Others did have one thing in common – we both had a love for, and fascination with, stories. I learned that every form of terra indigene had its own teaching stories as well as stories that were the repository of their history and connection to the world. And they all had stories that were told for the fun of it.”

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46. “Vlad looked around. “Are we providing shelter, or are the humans actually buying books?”

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47. “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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48. “A lot of us have scars... the biggest difference between you and the rest of us is you haven’t learned to live with yours yet.”

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49. “Life journeys. On the way, you are influenced by others, helped by others, harmed by others. Some things happen because you have earned them. And some things happen because cruelty flickers through the dark currents and rises up without warning; causing harm, causing pain, causing tragedies that can devastate one person or and entire village.”

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50. “The heart’s need to make its journey through life calls to us. Some hearts will back away from the journey, too fearful to leave the familiar even though it withers. Others wills leap forward and never look back, bruising the hearts left behind. Pain will force some to begin the journey. For others, love will be a beacon that keeps them moving forward.”

— Anne Bishop