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More than a shadow and less than a soul.
Anne Bishop
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When honor and the Law no longer stand on the same side of the line, how do we choose[?]
Anne Bishop
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When a man wears his pants that tight, they tend to pinch his balls, and that tends to pinch his temper.
Anne Bishop
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There are some questions that shouldn't be asked until a person is mature enough to appreciate the answers.
Anne Bishop
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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.
Anne Bishop
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I can heal the scars on your body, but I canât 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
Anne Bishop
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Her smile faded. âDo you know the worst thing about it? I forgot him. Daemon was a friend, and I forgot him. That Winsol, before I wasâŚhe gave me a silver bracelet. I donât know what happened to it. I had a picture of him. I donât 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 didnât matter.
Anne Bishop
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Our recovery of hope - full colour, three-dimensional, hard working, clear thinking, wildly radical, living hope - is our key to liberation.
Anne Bishop
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Let your heart travel lightly. Because what you bring with you becomes part of the landscape.
Anne Bishop
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It is easier to kill than to heal. It is easier to destroy than to preserve. It is easier to tear down than to build. Those who feed on destructive emotions and ambitions and deny the responsibilities that are the price of wielding power can bring down everything you care for and would protect. Be on guard, always.
Anne Bishop
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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? âIgnore the fluffy,â she muttered. âRemember the part about big and scary.
Anne Bishop
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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.
Anne Bishop
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Mother Night and May The Darkness Be Merciful!
Anne Bishop
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Everything has a price. It's just what your willing to pay for it.
Anne Bishop
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Everything has a price.
Anne Bishop
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But wouldn't it be lovely to watch two people fall in love?
Anne Bishop
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Briarwood is the pretty poison. There is no cure for Briarwood.
Anne Bishop
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Words lie. Blood doesn't.
Anne Bishop
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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.
Anne Bishop
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She was the most painful, most glorious dance of his life
Anne Bishop
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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!
Anne Bishop
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Stubborn, snarly male.
Anne Bishop
23.
I suppose [...] that the most convincing way to fool an enemy would be to fool a friend.
Anne Bishop
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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.
Anne Bishop
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Not fault of teaching spider if little spider pay more attention to catching fly than doing lesson.
Anne Bishop
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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.
Anne Bishop
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Lucivar winced. "She guzzled half the flask â and it wasn't one of his home brews, it was the concoction you created." Jaenelleâs eyes widened. âYou let her drink a âgravediggerâ?â âNo no no,â Wilhelmina said, shaking her head. âYou shouldnât ever drink a gravedigger until heâs had a bath.â She smiled placidly when Jaenelle and Lucivar just stared at her. âMother Night,â Lucivar muttered. âDo you know that song?â Wilhelmina asked Jaenelle.
Anne Bishop
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Perhaps not willingly, but pain can make a man do things he wouldn't willingly do.
Anne Bishop
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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.
Anne Bishop
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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.
Anne Bishop
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Smoke says the beef is much better than the squawky white birds. Her expression changed from annoyed to dismayed. Squawky white birds? Chickens? You ate Mrs. Beale's chickens?Smoke whined apologetically.Saetan leaned back in his chair. Oh, it was so satisfying to see her thrown off stride. I'm sure Mrs. Beale was delighted to feed a guest - even if she wasn't aware of it, he added dryly, remembering too well his cook's reaction when she learned about the missing hens.
Anne Bishop
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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.
Anne Bishop
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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.
Anne Bishop
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Some men die for lack of loveâŚsome die because of it. Think about it." - Daemon
Anne Bishop
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It was easier when all we wanted to do was eat them and take their stuff,â he grumbled. And it had been easier when he hadnât cared if he made any of them cry.
Anne Bishop
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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.
Anne Bishop
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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.
Anne Bishop