Quotes from Anne Bishop

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.

It's none of my business, but I am curious," Saetan said. "Why are you standing out here displaying your assets?

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.

They're never human, Lieutenant. They just mimic us to get what they want.

Why is the moon shaped like that?" he asked. "It's a heart," Meg replied. "Haven't you seen this symbol before?" "Sure. But it's not the thumpy-thump good-eating kind of heart." "It's a romantic heart." She looked up and narrowed her eyes. "Is that why you shelved the kissy books with the cookbooks? Because a heart is a heart?

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.

expression an unsettling blend of fear and fury. Prothvar came in

There is sickness here," Henry said. "The bodywalker must tend to Boo Bear." The

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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? This

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.

She may have been a brainless female for being out in a storm that night

He was seduction in motion

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

The lesson was not lost on Kartane. To be Ringed was the severest form of control. If Daemon couldn't stand the pain, how could he? It became very important not to give Dorothea a reason to Ring him. That night, after Daemon had been allowed to rest a little, he was ordered to serve the witch he'd earlier refused. That night was the first time Daemon went cold.

Arroo!" I am here. "Arroo!" I am here. I am here. I am here. Alone.

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

land." "There was some . . . strangeness . . . about the way the Rose

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

Having someone sensible to talk to. Meaning someone who doesn't have a wiggle-waggle." -Karla, The Queen's Bargain