Anne Bishop Quotes
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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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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.
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Mother Night and May The Darkness Be Merciful!
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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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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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Briarwood is the pretty poison. There is no cure for Briarwood.
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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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When honor and the Law no longer stand on the same side of the line, how do we choose[?]
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People who entered the Courtyard without an invitation were just plain crazy! Wolves were big and scary and so fluffy, how could anyone resist hugging one just to feel all that fur? “Ignore the fluffy,” she muttered. “Remember the part about big and scary.
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Let your heart travel lightly. Because what you bring with you becomes part of the landscape.
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That is a list of the Territories that yielded to Ebon Askavi. They now stand within the shadow of the Keep. They are mine. Anyone who tries to settle in my Territory without my consent will be dealt with. Anyone who harms any of my people will be executed. There will be no excuses and no exceptions. I will say it simply so that the members of this Council and the intruders who thought to take land they had no right to claim can never say they misunderstood." Jaenelle's lips curled into a snarl. "STAY OUT OF MY TERRITORY!
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Words lie. Blood doesn't.
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I suppose [...] that the most convincing way to fool an enemy would be to fool a friend.
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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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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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Stubborn, snarly male.
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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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But wouldn't it be lovely to watch two people fall in love?
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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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Everything has a price.
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There are some questions that shouldn't be asked until a person is mature enough to appreciate the answers.
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Her smile faded. “Do you know the worst thing about it? I forgot him. Daemon was a friend, and I forgot him. That Winsol, before I was…he gave me a silver bracelet. I don’t know what happened to it. I had a picture of him. I don’t know what happened to that either. And then he gave everything he had to help me, and when it was done, everyone walked away from him as if he didn’t matter.
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Some men die for lack of love…some die because of it. Think about it." - Daemon
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Everything has a price. It's just what your willing to pay for it.
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She was the most painful, most glorious dance of his life
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More than a shadow and less than a soul.
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You weren't afraid of me when I was Wolf," he said. "Why are you afraid of Nathan?" "He's got big feet!" "What?" An insulted-sounding arrroooo came from the other side of the door, a reminder that Wolves also had big ears.
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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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Perhaps not willingly, but pain can make a man do things he wouldn't willingly do.
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Not fault of teaching spider if little spider pay more attention to catching fly than doing lesson.
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