Top 160 Anne Bishop Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “I refused to be less than what I am, and I made them deal with me on my own terms.”

— Anne Bishop

52. “Why did humans give their offspring fake versions of predators that would happily eat those offspring? Those.”

— Anne Bishop

53. “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.”

— Anne Bishop

54. “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.”

— Anne Bishop

55. “The police have no leads as yet on the person or persons who painted obscene suggestions on the buildings. 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.”

— Anne Bishop

56. “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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57. “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.”

— Anne Bishop

58. “Have you taught her to kill, Priest? Can you teach her such a thing? She’s so wise in her innocence, so innocent in her wisdom.”

— Anne Bishop

59. “We’re going to destroy Cel-Romano. I wanted you to know that before you die,” Stavros said. “You upstart infestation. You thought you could wipe out the terra indigene? It’s your species that is going to wither – and you will be one of the things the survivors, if there are any, can thank for that.” He released Scratch and floated a safe distance away as dozens of the Sharkgard rushed in to strike the enemy, consuming the human piece by piece. A foot. A hand. A forearm. A thigh.”

— Anne Bishop

60. “He gave the side of her head a quick lick before she squealed and ducked away from him. Tasted like Meg. Felt like puppy fuzz. Too bad he couldn’t hold her down and give her a proper grooming like he used to do with Sam.”

— Anne Bishop

61. “He wondered if there was a way human males said they were sorry about something without saying they were sorry. Because he wasn’t sorry about being angry.”

— Anne Bishop

62. “It was equally clear, at least to her, that no one on the right side of sanity messed with Douglas Burke.”

— Anne Bishop

63. “What’s a stag stick?” Meg asked, taking the packages. He stared at her for a moment. Then he put a fist below his belt and popped out a thumb. “Oh,” Meg said. “Oh.” He spun around and ran back to the Market Square. She closed the door, looked at the packages in her hands, and said, “Eeewwww.”

— Anne Bishop

64. “Being human doesn’t entitle us to grab what doesn’t belong to us.”

— Anne Bishop

65. “He gently kissed that scar and felt something changing inside him – just a flutter of change, there and gone, but leaving its mark.”

— Anne Bishop

66. “The map showed human places I’d never heard of – places that had once been great civilizations, until humans forgot the world wasn’t theirs to claim.”

— Anne Bishop

67. “And the Lady’s mate. Despite having only two legs and small fangs, there was much that was feline in that one, and he approved.”

— Anne Bishop

68. “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.”

— Anne Bishop

69. “And the things we girls need because no one wants to run out of those supplies in the middle of a blizzard.”

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70. “Opportunities and choices.”

— Anne Bishop

71. “Vlad hated doing the paperwork as much as he did when a human employee quit, which was why they’d both made a promise not to eat quitters just to avoid the paperwork. As Tess had pointed out, eating the staff was bad for marale and made it so much harder to find new employees.”

— Anne Bishop

72. “And when one kind of animal overruns an area to the point where many kinds of animal begin to starve, it’s up to the predators to thin out the herds before there’s nothing left for anyone. That’s a simple truth whether you’re talking about deer or humans.”

— Anne Bishop

73. “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.”

— Anne Bishop

74. “Why would I care what you looked like? The flesh was the shell that housed the glory.”

— Anne Bishop

75. “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.”

— Anne Bishop

76. “Dear Jean, I have seen a deer. I have petted a pony. I helped plant a garden. I have smelled earth and felt it in my hands. You watched the sun rise. These things are worth the struggle to live outside.”

— Anne Bishop

77. “Ruthie will help you write it.” There. Problem solved. Ruthie was a teacher. She wrote sentences all the time. “Have.”

— Anne Bishop

78. “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.”

— Anne Bishop

79. “Was she cold? If he’d stayed with her last night, she wouldn’t be cold.”

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80. “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.”

— Anne Bishop

81. “Monty blinked. “On what charge, sir?” “On the charge of being a pain in my ass,” Burke growled. “And right now, that is good enough for an overnight stay in our facility.”

— Anne Bishop

82. “Six flashlights turned on, beacons that said, We’re here, come eat us!”

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83. “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.”

— Anne Bishop

84. “Humans were like sticky vines. If you didn’t escape at the first touch, you got more and more tangled up.”

— Anne Bishop

85. “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?”

— Anne Bishop

86. “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.”

— Anne Bishop

87. “They’re never human, Lieutenant. They just mimic us to get what they want.”

— Anne Bishop

88. “And he wondered just how much teasing she had received – and why human males would train a female to shoot a gun and then tease her into being angry enough to shoot them. “I’m.”

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89. “That one has more brass than an orchestra and more nerve than a sore tooth. So I sincerely doubt I make her nervous.”

— Anne Bishop

90. “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?”

— Anne Bishop

91. “Ms. Borden is Lizzy’s mother?”

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92. “I’m not a writer,” Merri Lee protested. “I can make notes, sure, but I can’t write up something like that!” “Ruthie will help you write it.” There. Problem solved. Ruthie was a teacher. She wrote sentences all the time.”

— Anne Bishop

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.”

— Anne Bishop

94. “Don’t absorb so much of what is human that you forget who you are. But if you must, do it for your own sake rather than for the benefit of the rest of us.”

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95. “He had a feeling this was one of those times when a male should express positive enthusiasm regardless of what he really thought – especially when he didn’t really know what was going on.”

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96. “Within minutes of being offered congratulations and best wishes, she acquired a Crowgard pen pal and was told by the coffee shop’s manager that a ride was waiting for her in the access way.”

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97. “Sylvia had given him a scalding lecture, the gist of it being that whatever a woman enjoyed wearing was feminine and anything she didn’t enjoy wearing wasn’t, and if he was too stubborn and old fashioned to understand that, he could go and soak his head in a bucket of cold water. He hadn’t quite forgiven her yet for saying they would have to look hard to find a bucket big enough to fit his head in to, but he admired the sass behind the remark.”

— Anne Bishop

98. “Why couldn’t they just give the human female a bag of money and then pee on the building so that everyone would know it was theirs?”

— Anne Bishop

99. “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.”

— Anne Bishop

100. “She was young, healthy, stronger than she’d ever been. And she was in love with him. She’d fallen in love with a man who challenged the world to take him on, sometimes with laughing, boyish enthusiasm and other times as a warrior born and trained to kill. She could do this for him. Would do this for him.”

— Anne Bishop