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“When Love cast me out, it was Cruelty who took pity upon me”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Dart

“They are fools, who reckon Elua a soft god, fit only for the worship of starry-eyed lovers. Let the warriors clamor after gods of blood and thunder; love is hard, harder than steel and thrice as cruel. It is as inexorable as the tides, and life and death alike follow in it's wake.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Chosen

“But what if I say something and you don't like it?'
'Well, that happens between people all the time. And sometimes it turns them awkward with each other, and sometimes it makes them angry, but unless they tell the truth it's all just guessing and mistakes anyway.”
― Sharon Shinn, Reader and Raelynx

“Make no vows or promises in the dark. Always wait until morning.
-Najdan the Assassin”
― Laura Resnick, The Destroyer Goddess

“Draw your sword with honour, sheathe it with courage.
- Shatai-kaj motto”
― Laura Resnick, In Legend Born

“Silence is also speech.
-Silerian Proverb

The bitter heart eats it's owner.
-Kintish Proverb

Only one thing is better than learning an enemy is dead: learning that he is in Sileria.
-Valdani Proverb”
― Laura Resnick, The White Dragon

“First, however you initially grasp the sword, change your grip a little, so that you focus on how you're holding it. Don't take your weapon for granted.”
― Elizabeth Haydon, Rhapsody: Child of Blood

“What makes you heal? What makes you strong?”
― Chika Shiomi, Rasetsu, Vol. 1

“My contrariness kept Char laughing, and his goodness kept me in love.”
― Gail Carson Levine, Ella Enchanted

“Imperius Rex.”
― Stuart Moore, Namor: The First Mutant, Vol. 1: Curse of the Mutants

“You have not traveled enough," she said. "Or you'd know that every journey
makes its own map across your heart.”
― Sharon Shinn, Mystic and Rider

“How did they find out?" Donnal inquired. "Did you set them on fire?"

"You know, it's so rare that I actually do that, and yet that's always the first question anyone asks me." -Senneth”
― Sharon Shinn, Quatrain

“You can hardly walk up to complete strangers and say, "Good for you! You've risked banishment and brutality and ostracism just to be together, and I applaud your choice! You're in the vanguard of social change, and even though it's hard on you, the generations that come after you will have an easier time of it because you were brave enough to fall in love." So instead I told them I liked their baby. It means the same thing, but it's more socially acceptable.”
― Sharon Shinn, Quatrain

“Amalie took his hand and spread it against her heart. Her smile was utterly tranquil. 'The world changes and the world stays the same', she told him, ... 'The old moon sets. New moon rises.”
― Sharon Shinn, Reader and Raelynx

“There are some questions that shouldn't be asked until a person is mature enough to appreciate the answers.”
― Anne Bishop, Daughter of the Blood

“Everything has a price.”
― Anne Bishop

“Is that why you've been pushing me away? Because of how you look? [...] I waited for you my whole life. Yearned for you my whole life. After Tersa told me you were coming, I spent seven hundred years searching for you[....] I never gave a damn what you looked like--tall, short, fat, thin, plain, beautiful, ugly. Why would I care about what you looked like? The flesh was the shell that housed the glory[....] Even if I couldn't be your physical lover, there are other ways to be a lover and I know them all. So don't stand there and tell me how you feel depends on how you look!”
― Anne Bishop, Dreams Made Flesh

“When honor and the Law no longer stand on the same side of the line, how do we choose[?]”
― Anne Bishop, Heir to the Shadows

“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.”
― Anne Bishop, Written in Red

“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, Daughter of the Blood

“Whether you’re beaten or pampered, fed the best foods or starved, kept in filth or kept clean, a cage is still a cage.”
― Anne Bishop, Written in Red

“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, Written in Red

“Do you always ask me the same questions you ask him?"

"It depends on whether or not I get an answer.”
― Anne Bishop, Daughter of the Blood

“Briarwood is the pretty poison. There is no cure for Briarwood.”
― Anne Bishop

“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, Daughter of the Blood

“When a man wears his pants that tight, they tend to pinch his balls, and that tends to pinch his temper.”
― Anne Bishop, Queen of the Darkness

“Stubborn, snarly male.”
― Anne Bishop, The Black Jewels Trilogy: Daughter of the Blood, Heir to the Shadows, Queen of the Darkness

“Words lie. Blood doesn't.”
― Anne Bishop, Heir to the Shadows

“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, Murder of Crows

“She was the most painful, most glorious dance of his life”
― Anne Bishop, Heir to the Shadows