“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.”
― Anne Bishop, quote from Murder of Crows
“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.”
― Anne Bishop, quote from Murder of Crows
“The cow-shaped cookies have a beef flavoring, the turkey-shaped cookies have a poultry flavoring, and..."
Jane held up one of the cookies. "Human-flavored?"
Meg stifled a sigh. That would be the first thing on her feedback list: don't make people-shaped cookies. The Wolves were way too interested and all of them leaped to a logical, if disturbing, expectation about the taste.”
― Anne Bishop, quote from Murder of Crows
“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, quote from Murder of Crows
“Do any of them realize that Simon Wolfgard is falling in love with Meg Corbyn? Monty wondered. Does Wolfgard understand his own response to the girl? What about Meg? How does she feel? What would the rest of the Others do if one of their kind did fall in love with a human?”
― Anne Bishop, quote from Murder of Crows
“If you try to quit I will eat you!”
― Anne Bishop, quote from Murder of Crows
“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.”
― Anne Bishop, quote from Murder of Crows
“Wait! I'm the one who's supposed to chase!”
― Anne Bishop, quote from Murder of Crows
“I’ll see if I can find someone in the Toland Police Department who doesn’t use his brains to wipe his backside.”
― Anne Bishop, quote from Murder of Crows
“And getting licked by someone furry wasn't threatening but being kissed by the non furred male was, which made sense when the furry and non furred were the same person. Wolf.”
― Anne Bishop, quote from Murder of Crows
“She kicked me off the bed!”
― Anne Bishop, quote from Murder of Crows
“I’ve done some research for my books and talked to a few humans, and they all said humans would use guns and knives and clubs for weapons.” The Crow nodded. “A screaming woman with a teakettle just doesn’t sound sufficiently dangerous.” “But she was! They were!” Alan said. “How would a human deal with them?”
― Anne Bishop, quote from Murder of Crows
“Oh, no.
He was furry, not stupid.”
― Anne Bishop, quote from Murder of Crows
“I'm confused."
"Where Meg is concerned, you've been confused since you met her.”
― Anne Bishop, quote from Murder of Crows
“Simon's relationship with Meg was too complex for anything as simple as sex.”
― Anne Bishop, quote from Murder of Crows
“He just hoped Meg leading the way didn’t mean all the blood prophets would do strange things to their hair.”
― Anne Bishop, quote from Murder of Crows
“The courtyard kept changing, dazzling her with the flowers that bloomed between one day and the next, with the bare branches of trees that were swollen with the buds of new leaves and then fuzzed with green. Every day, she drove a familiar road through a new place.”
― Anne Bishop, quote from Murder of Crows
“I’m not cs747,” she whispered defiantly as she shifted on her cot in order to lean back against the wall. “My name is Jean.”
― Anne Bishop, quote from Murder of Crows
“He might know things Meg wanted to learn, but he would never be as thorough about cleaning the salt and butter off her hands after movie night.”
― Anne Bishop, quote from Murder of Crows
“She stared at him for a long moment. Then she put her hand in his . . . and broke his heart.”
― Anne Bishop, quote from Murder of Crows
“It was hard to be around Jean because he looked at her and saw what Meg’s future would have been if she hadn’t been brave enough to run away—and if Jean hadn’t been brave enough to stay.”
― Anne Bishop, quote from Murder of Crows
“Monty blinked. “On what charge, sir?” “On the charge of being a pain in my ass,” Burke growled. “And right now, that is good enough for an overnight stay in our facility.”
― Anne Bishop, quote from Murder of Crows
“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.”
― Anne Bishop, quote from Murder of Crows
“She may have been a brainless female for being out in a storm that night,”
― Anne Bishop, quote from Murder of Crows
“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 Crow cocked his head. “I had no idea you humans lived with so much danger.”
― Anne Bishop, quote from Murder of Crows
“Meg nodded. She didn’t understand the feeling, but she turned the words into a kind of image that she could recall later. “Anyway,”
― Anne Bishop, quote from Murder of Crows
“When would humans realize they always started the fights that would kill them? He”
― Anne Bishop, quote from Murder of Crows
“Some, like Lorne, who ran the Three Ps—the shop for paper, printing, and postage—went on as they had before.”
― Anne Bishop, quote from Murder of Crows
“It’s a store full of books, which are objects that can be thrown as well as read,” Monty replied blandly. The Crow cocked his head. “I had no idea you humans lived with so much danger.” Monty”
― Anne Bishop, quote from Murder of Crows
“I have just come from the East End,” he said. “Something about the stories disturbed me, for more than the obvious reasons. I went there to have a look about for myself. And what happened last night proves my theory. There have been many murders recently—all of women, women who . . .”
“Prostitutes,” Tessa said.
“Quite,” Gabriel said.
“Tessa has such an extensive vocabulary,” Will said. “It is one of the most attractive things about her. Shame about yours, Gabriel.”
“Will, listen to me.” Gabriel allowed himself a long sigh.
“Spoon!” James said, running at his uncle Gabriel and jabbing him in the thigh. Gabriel mussed the boy’s hair affectionately.
“You’re such a good boy,” he said. “I often wonder how you could possibly be Will’s.”
“Spoon,” James said, leaning against his uncle’s leg lovingly.
“No, Jamie,” Will urged. “Your honorable father has been impugned. Attack, attack!”
― Cassandra Clare, quote from Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy
“She's so sensitive, she's almost able to read their minds. . .. She becomes them. . .. She has a precise and very special gift, a way of observing and understanding animals that's rare, a sixth sense. . .. It's been this way since she was little." In”
― Diane Ackerman, quote from The Zookeeper's Wife
“Believe that when I am at once a man's friend I am always so-nor is it so very hard to bring me to it. And though a man may enjoy himself in being my enemy, he cannot make me HIS for longer than I wish. Good afternoon." Lowell had a way of leaving a conversation with the other person needing more from him.”
― Matthew Pearl, quote from The Dante Club
“Cos'altro possono togliermi? Dovunque io vada mi porto dietro il mio inferno.”
― Sally Gardner, quote from I, Coriander
“after we ate we was silent on our blankets looking out across the mighty Great Divide I never seen this country before it were like a fairy story landscape the clear and windy skies was filled with diamonds the jagged black outlines of the ranges were a panorama.
You're going to ride a horse across all that.
I know.
He laughed and he were right I knew nothing of what lay ahead.
See that there he pointed. That is called the Crosscut Saw and that one is Mount Speculation and yonder is Mount Buggery and that other is Mount Despair did you know that?
No Harry.
You will and you'll be sorry.”
― Peter Carey, quote from True History of the Kelly Gang
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