Anne Bishop
Anne Bishop
Anne Bishop is an American fantasy writer. Her most noted work is the Black Jewels series. She won the Crawford Award in 2000 for the first three Black Jewels books, sometimes called the Black Jewels trilogy: Daughter of the Blood, Heir to the Shadows, and Queen of the Darkness...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
CountryUnited States of America
soul body scar
I can heal the scars on your body, but I can’t 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
lying thinking sitting
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.
land people misunderstood
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!
inspirational teacher teaching
Not fault of teaching spider if little spider pay more attention to catching fly than doing lesson.
enemy fool would-be
I suppose [...] that the most convincing way to fool an enemy would be to fool a friend.
pain men
Perhaps not willingly, but pain can make a man do things he wouldn't willingly do.
men thinking lack-of-love
Some men die for lack of love…some die because of it. Think about it." - Daemon
people evil good-and-evil
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.
mother song eye
Lucivar winced. "She guzzled half the flask — and it wasn't one of his home brews, it was the concoction you created." Jaenelle’s eyes widened. “You let her drink a ‘gravedigger’?” “No no no,” Wilhelmina said, shaking her head. “You shouldn’t ever drink a gravedigger until he’s had a bath.” She smiled placidly when Jaenelle and Lucivar just stared at her. “Mother Night,” Lucivar muttered. “Do you know that song?” Wilhelmina asked Jaenelle.
painful glorious
She was the most painful, most glorious dance of his life
recovery hard-work thinking
Our recovery of hope - full colour, three-dimensional, hard working, clear thinking, wildly radical, living hope - is our key to liberation.
falling-in-love two people
But wouldn't it be lovely to watch two people fall in love?
answers ask-me asks
Do you always ask me the same questions you ask him?" "It depends on whether or not I get an answer.
children men giving
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.