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
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Stubborn, snarly male.
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Mother Night and May The Darkness Be Merciful!
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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.
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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? “Ignore the fluffy,” she muttered. “Remember the part about big and scary.
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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.
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More than a shadow and less than a soul.
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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.
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There are some questions that shouldn't be asked until a person is mature enough to appreciate the answers.
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When honor and the Law no longer stand on the same side of the line, how do we choose[?]
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Werewolves and Arabians. It's like chocolate and peanut butter - a delicious combination.
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'The Others' books take place in an alternate Earth where the Earth natives have been the dominant predators throughout the world's history, and humans are nowhere near the top of the food chain. But humans are clever and resilient, if not always wise, and have made some bargains with the Others in order to survive.
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The potential of stem cells has been widely known for many years, but it is only recently we have started to make progress towards the ultimate goal of using them in patients. These results show it may be as little as five years before this advance can be used to directly benefit patients for a huge variety of illnesses and injuries.
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Ninety-five percent of students use cell phones. We found a small group that used it all the time; others never used it. We wanted to combine the Pocket PC and the cell phone.
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Although it will be some years before we are able to build actual human lungs for transplantation, this is a major step towards deriving cells that could be used to repair damaged lungs.