Anne Bishop Quotes

“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.”

Source: Heir to the Shadows

Anne Bishop book Vision in Silver

Source: Vision in Silver

“Enjoy your Evening."

"That will depend on the menu. If it's beef, it will be a tolerable meal. If it's chicken…" Elliot shuddered. "What is the point of chicken?"

"Eggs?”

“Simon didn’t think Meg really wanted to know how to eviscerate a rabbit. He could be wrong about that, but he just couldn’t picture Meg pouncing on a bunny and ripping it open with her teeth.
Maybe if he tried harder to picture it?”

Source: Written in Red

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

Source: Written in Red

“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.”

Source: Queen of the Darkness

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

Source: Written in Red

Anne Bishop Quotes

“Everything has a price.”

Source: Daughter of the Blood

“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.”

“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.”

Source: Daughter of the Blood

“Some men die for lack of love…some die because of it. Think about it." - Daemon”

Source: Daughter of the Blood

“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.”

Source: Daughter of the Blood

“Whether you’re beaten or pampered, fed the best foods or starved, kept in filth or kept clean, a cage is still a cage.”

Source: Written in Red

“Do you always ask me the same questions you ask him?"

"It depends on whether or not I get an answer.”

Source: Written in Red

“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.”

Source: Daughter of the Blood

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

Source: Daughter of the Blood

“Stubborn, snarly male.”

“Human females, they're kind of crazy during this time aren't they?

If you chose to believe the stories written by male writers.

They heard a bang and thump from the kitchen. Followed by Meg yelling at something.

That many males can't be wrong.”

Source: The Black Jewels Trilogy: Daughter of the Blood, Heir to the Shadows, Queen of the Darkness

“When a man wears his pants that tight, they tend to pinch his balls, and that tends to pinch his temper.”

Source: Murder of Crows

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

Source: Queen of the Darkness

Anne Bishop book Sebastian

Source: Sebastian

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

“Mother Night and May The Darkness Be Merciful!”

Source: Heir to the Shadows

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

Source: Daughter of the Blood

“The other package has pieces of dried stag stick. The pups like chewing on those."

"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. ".”

Source: Daughter of the Blood

“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.”

Source: Written in Red

“But what would they have said to their Liaison?, Vlad thought”

Source: Written in Red

“I suppose […] that the most convincing way to fool an enemy would be to fool a friend.”

Source: Written in Red

“But wouldn't it be lovely to watch two people fall in love?”

Source: Heir to the Shadows

“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?”

Source: The Shadow Queen

Anne Bishop book Vision in Silver

Source: Vision in Silver

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

“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.”

“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.”

Source: Murder of Crows

Anne Bishop book Sebastian

Source: Sebastian

“If you try to quit I will eat you!”

“The sweatshirt was big on her and she looked ridiculous. He liked it. And he liked that she was wearing something that carried his scent.”

Source: Murder of Crows

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

Source: Written in Red

Anne Bishop book Marked in Flesh

Source: Marked in Flesh

“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.”

“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 with him and pet him.”

Source: Daughter of the Blood

“I lost nothing I regret losing," Witch said softly. "I am what I want to be.”

Source: Murder of Crows

“[…][I]f you adapted too much in order to deal with them, you ran the risk of forgetting who you were and you could end up being neither and nothing.”

Source: Dreams Made Flesh