213 Quotes by Anne Bishop

The moon waxes and wanes. The tides ebb and flow. The seasons turn, each in their own time. Ever changing, never changing. Of course you’ll change. The dance of life spirals, remember? Even when you return to a point, you’re not in the same place. The dance would have changed you, whether you’d come here or stayed home.

Are there weapons in a bookstore?′ ‘It’s a store full of books, which are objects that can be thrown as well as read,’ Monty replied blandly. The Crows cocked his head. ‘I had no idea you humans lived with so much danger.

You couldn’t help someone who didn’t want help. That was a hard, and bitter, life lesson.

Dear Jean, I have seen a deer. I have petted a pony. I helped plant a garden. I have smelled earth and felt it in my hands. You watched the sun rise. These things are worth the struggle to live outside.

Do we judge who is good and who is bad by the color and shape of their skin – or by what resonates in their hearts?

She was the most painful, most glorious dance of his life.

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.

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

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?