Top 160 Anne Bishop Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “Despair made the deserts and hope shaped the oasis.”

— Anne Bishop

102. “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.”

— Anne Bishop

103. “Meg carried a purse when she went to the office or the Market Square, but it was small and didn’t hold anything of particular interest. He knew that because he’d looked.”

— Anne Bishop

104. “Do you want to know what ‘special’ really means, my darling? It means more training, more work, more study, more discipline, more rules.”

— Anne Bishop

105. “I’ve done some research for my books and talked to a few humans, and they all said humans would use guns and knives and clubs for weapons.” The Crow nodded. “A screaming woman with a teakettle just doesn’t sound sufficiently dangerous.” “But she was! They were!” Alan said. “How would a human deal with them?”

— Anne Bishop

106. “Maybe it was human nature to want to please the person who rejects you, who wants you to prove you deserve to be loved. Maybe.”

— Anne Bishop

107. “But the thoughts were excellent hunters and devoured sleep.”

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108. “Marian sank down on one of the kitchen chairs and braced her head in her hands. He got mad at her for sweeping up spilled sugar but dragged her outside to throw a skillet at bales of hay. She threw a pot at him and missed, so he was going to teach her how to clobber him with a skillet. Even taking into account that he was an Eyrien male, there was only one explanation for his behavior. The man was insane.”

— Anne Bishop

109. “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.”

— Anne Bishop

110. “Kowalski shrugged. “She’s my mate. I can live with it if it makes her happy.” Simon looked at the bulging carry sacks Kowalski had in each hand. “Couldn’t you just give her the best parts of a bunny?” “Doesn’t.”

— Anne Bishop

111. “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.”

— Anne Bishop

112. “She would have told her to respect her limitations as well as her abilities.”

— Anne Bishop

113. “Do you know what happened to the dinosaurs? The Others is what happened to the dinosaurs. A joke Captain Burke had told him his first day on the job in Lakeside. Except it wasn’t a joke. Burke had known that, at least to some degree. And now so did he.”

— Anne Bishop

114. “He just hoped Meg leading the way didn’t mean all the blood prophets would do strange things to their hair.”

— Anne Bishop

115. “Talking about us and them is part of what caused the trouble and got a lot of people killed in the past year.”

— Anne Bishop

116. “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?”

— Anne Bishop

117. “She kicked me off the bed!”

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118. “She would always be short, but she wasn’t helpless and she wasn’t small. Not anymore.”

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119. “He hadn’t observed Kowalski or Debany licking their mates’ hands.”

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120. “That’s why males defend, Lady Surreal. Because you females are deadlier when you’re roused – and you’re merciless when you’re riding the killing edge.”

— Anne Bishop

121. “Sometimes you need to see the same stars from a different place to help your heart settle when it’s hurting.”

— Anne Bishop

122. “For you, being around that man is like drinking a glass of poison every day,” Nadine said. “Maybe it just makes you sick, makes you weak, makes you forget who you really are and what you really want. But if you keep drinking, sooner or later, the poison will kill you.”

— Anne Bishop

123. “If you believe some of the old stories, earth natives have been around in one form or another since the beginning of the world. They were the top predators then and they’re the top predators now because they change as the world changes, absorbing qualities from new species of predators without losing the essence of what they are.”

— Anne Bishop

124. “You are my breath, my life, my heart.’ ” Saetan smiled. “Does that say enough?” Tears stung his eyes. “That says everything.”

— Anne Bishop

125. “They will never be human. But it occurred to me that who the Others choose as a template determines if they mimic the best or the worst of what it means to be human.”

— Anne Bishop

126. “We are the tenants, not the landlords, a temple priest once said at a weekly gathering. We only borrow the air we breathe and the food we eat and the water we drink.”

— Anne Bishop

127. “Would you take credit for someone else’s achievement when you had nothing to do with that achievement?” Ilya asked. “No.” “Then don’t take credit for someone else’s mistakes.”

— Anne Bishop

128. “This body has been disturbed.” “I’d be disturbed too if I was suddenly dead,” I replied.”

— Anne Bishop

129. “We are drawn to the Light... others are drawn to the darkness that lives within the human heart... there will always be such hearts. There will always be that choice. If that wasn’t true, then a heart that walks in the Light has made no choice at all.”

— Anne Bishop

130. “You can’t fall if you’re already on the floor when you faint. Words to live by.”

— Anne Bishop

131. “When it comes to being selected for a thankless job, the man who leaves the room just before the vote is the fool who gets the job.”

— Anne Bishop

132. “Then I wondered why Grimshaw thought I was the only one Viktor would attack. There were other humans at The Jumble. Maybe the rest of us could throw the Cornleys at Viktor when he arrived and then ask him if adultery had a taste. Sweet and spicy? Tart with an aftertaste of bitter? Focus, Vicki.”

— Anne Bishop

133. “I really wish I’d known Natasha and Ilya when I was getting my divorce. They took bloodsucking to a whole different level.”

— Anne Bishop

134. “Don’t matter if you caw, Don’t matter if you shout. Crowbones will gitcha If you don’t watch out! – Crowgard rhyme.”

— Anne Bishop

135. “She was staring at Rusty – or the remains of something in Rusty’s crate. Then she narrowed her eyes at Virgil. “Who gave Rusty one of the treats?” “Cowboy Bob,” he replied blandly. She looked at the toy leaning against the side of her desk, then turned back to Virgil, baring her teeth. “Cowboy Bob? Really? Is that what we’re doing now? Blaming the stuffie?” She looked bigger than she had a minute ago, but he met her eyes and said, “Yeah.”

— Anne Bishop

136. “Friends were valued. Family – pack – was valued. And the loss of a member wasn’t forgotten.”

— Anne Bishop

137. “May I offer you some advice?” Saetan asked. “Not as your father or as the Steward of the court, but as a man who talked to Marian this morning.” Misery filling his gold eyes, Lucivar said, “What’s your advice?” Saetan smiled dryly. “Get your ass home in time for dinner.”

— Anne Bishop

138. “That’s the trouble with hiding in your safe place and hearing but not hearing a verbal hammering. You do hear the words, and with the right trigger, all your feelings come out as word vomit or lava – a hot projectile that can’t be controlled at all.”

— Anne Bishop

139. “They heard the clip-clop of a horse coming down the street. Barbara Ellen Debany, their pet caretaker and almost-vet, waved at them as she passed the store.”

— Anne Bishop

140. “And all I’d done a few weeks ago was mention Trickster Night, so everything that happened afterward really wasn’t my fault.”

— Anne Bishop

141. “Humans were no end of trouble even before they did anything.”

— Anne Bishop

142. “There is sickness here,” Henry said. “The bodywalker must tend to Boo Bear.” The.”

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143. “He gently rapped her nose with his finger. “But that means you can’t go telling him our secrets.” Jaenelle looked at him, wide-eyed. “Do we have any?” “Not yet,” he grumped, “but I’ll make one up just so we do.”

— Anne Bishop

144. “Moon’s blood only throws me offstride three days out of a month. A cock makes a man potentially stupid at any hour of any day.”

— Anne Bishop

145. “A leader needs to look beyond his own kind, needs the obedience of everyone in the Courtyard because we’re surrounded by the enemy.”

— Anne Bishop

146. “But in the end, the cookies won.”

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147. “Swearwords were one of the best things humans had invented...”

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148. “Dipping the last piece of lobster into the butter, Daemon held it out to her. “Someday you’ll find a man worthy of you.” She looked into his eyes, scared that she’d see some underlying message. What she saw was the warm affection of an older brother. She took the bite from his fork.”

— Anne Bishop

149. “This year he’d been caught up in a whirlwind called Jaenelle Angelline-as impossible to deflect as she was to stop-and he had become an accomplice in all sorts of schemes that, even in their innocence, had been thrilling.”

— Anne Bishop

150. “Mrs. Beale made this. I can’t cook.” Lucifer took another mouthful and shrugged. “Cooking isn’t that difficult.” Then he looked up and wondered if a grown man had ever been beaten to death with a soup spoon.”

— Anne Bishop