Top 160 Anne Bishop Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “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.”

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102. “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?”

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103. “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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104. “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.”

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105. “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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106. “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.”

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

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109. “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.”

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

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

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

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113. “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.”

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114. “Despair made the deserts and hope shaped the oasis.”

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115. “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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116. “She kicked me off the bed!”

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

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

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119. “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.”

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

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121. “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.”

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122. “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.”

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123. “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.”

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

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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.”

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126. “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.”

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

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

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129. “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.”

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

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

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132. “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.”

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133. “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.”

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134. “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.”

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

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

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

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138. “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.”

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139. “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.”

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140. “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.”

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141. “No one else has the right to decide if or when we cut our skin, but if we don’t learn to interpret the warning signs that tell us if we really need to cut, we can become the enslavers as well as the enslaved. We can become our own enemy.”

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142. “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.”

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

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144. “They were intelligent and vicious. Loyal and loving. Powerful and independent. Fiercely protective of those they loved to a sometimes annoying degree. They were his sons, and he loved them both.”

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145. “Easy enough to say you come from a wealthy family if no one can verify that fact.”

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146. “He studied her for a long moment. Then he took that last step, bringing him right next to her chair. He leaned over. One hand cupped her face while his lips lightly brushed her cheek. The Sadist whispered in her ear, “He was grateful when I let him die.” She shivered – and knew he felt the shiver.”

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147. “A shining fortune. Humans have killed each other for a single gem.”

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148. “Arroo!” I am here. “Arroo!” I am here. I am here. I am here. Alone.”

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149. “And sometimes loving someone means being willing to fight them into the ground if they’re putting themselves in danger or doing something wrong.”

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150. “The fact that it took him a decade to realize I was five foot four and plump instead of a five-foot-ten pole dancer with big tits was confusing.”

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