Vision in Silver Quotes

“For now, he and Meg were going to have the adventure of seeing a new place and having a new experience. Together.
He wasn't human. Would never be human. And Meg didn't expect him to be. But feeling her hand in his, Simon thought maybe he could learn to be human enough.”
― Anne Bishop, Vision in Silver

“Why couldn’t they just give the human female a bag of money and then pee on the building so that everyone would know it was theirs?”
― Anne Bishop, Vision in Silver

“He had a feeling this was one of those times when a male should express positive enthusiasm regardless of what he really thought—especially when he didn’t really know what was going on.”
― Anne Bishop, Vision in Silver

“This is Ruthie Stuart, Officer Kowalski’s mate. She will show your pups around the Market Square,” Simon said.
Sarah giggled. Robert said, “We’re not pups; we’re kids.”
Simon looked at Robert and Sarah, then at Ruthie.
Kids. He’d heard Merri Lee say something about when she was a kid. But the word didn’t apply to her now because she was an adult, so it had never occurred to him that, maybe, humans had a little shifter ability that they outgrew as they matured. When she had said kid, maybe she had meant kid?
He eyed Robert and Sarah with more interest. “Little humans can shift into young goats?”
― Anne Bishop, Vision in Silver

“He gave the side of her head a quick lick before she squealed and ducked away from him. Tasted like Meg. Felt like puppy fuzz. Too bad he couldn’t hold her down and give her a proper grooming like he used to do with Sam.”
― Anne Bishop, Vision in Silver

“He wondered if there was a way human males said they were sorry about something without saying they were sorry. Because he wasn’t sorry about being angry.”
― Anne Bishop, Vision in Silver

“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.”
― Anne Bishop, Vision in Silver

“Humans were like sticky vines. If you didn’t escape at the first touch, you got more and more tangled up.”
― Anne Bishop, Vision in Silver

“I’m not a writer,” Merri Lee protested. “I can make notes, sure, but I can’t write up something like that!” “Ruthie will help you write it.” There. Problem solved. Ruthie was a teacher. She wrote sentences all the time.”
― Anne Bishop, Vision in Silver

“Today the man looked a bit . . . chewed. No, humans wouldn’t say “chewed.” Frazzled. Was that the human equivalent?”
― Anne Bishop, Vision in Silver

“Crystal told me that Charlie Crowgard wrote a song about the fight. It’s called ‘Teakettle Woman and Broomstick Girl,’ and it’s so popular with the terra indigene who have heard it, he’s going to record it so the rest of us can hear it too.”
― Anne Bishop, Vision in Silver

“Do you know what happened to the dinosaurs? The Others is what happened to the dinosaurs. A joke Captain Burke had told him his first day on the job in Lakeside. Except it wasn’t a joke. Burke had known that, at least to some degree. And now so did he.”
― Anne Bishop, Vision in Silver

“But naked wasn’t something done around human pups—although he wanted to ask the men why naked from the waist up was all right for them but females remained covered. That didn’t seem fair. Shifting”
― Anne Bishop, Vision in Silver

“Simon didn’t want to poke his nose into a “girl thing.” Potentially dangerous territory, that.”
― Anne Bishop, Vision in Silver

“Sometimes I think her chest is made of ice, and she has to stay emotionally cold to hide the smell of a roting heart.”
― Anne Bishop, Vision in Silver

“Kowalski shrugged. “She’s my mate. I can live with it if it makes her happy.” Simon looked at the bulging carry sacks Kowalski had in each hand. “Couldn’t you just give her the best parts of a bunny?” “Doesn’t”
― Anne Bishop, Vision in Silver

“If you believe some of the old stories, earth natives have been around in one form or another since the beginning of the world. They were the top predators then and they’re the top predators now because they change as the world changes, absorbing qualities from new species of predators without losing the essence of what they are.”
― Anne Bishop, Vision in Silver

“Grumbling and limping, she reached the door and opened it, saying, “It wasn’t locked for a reason.” Steve Ferryman stared at her. “You cut your hair.” Meg huffed. “Yes, it looks like puppy fuzz. No, you can’t pet it.” He worked hard not to smile.”
― Anne Bishop, Vision in Silver

“She says he has big teeth, even bigger than Boo Bear’s.” They stared at Montgomery. Finally Simon said, “Boo Bear doesn’t have any teeth, so everyone has bigger teeth.”
― Anne Bishop, Vision in Silver

“Friends were valued. Family—pack—was valued. And the loss of a member wasn’t forgotten.”
― Anne Bishop, Vision in Silver

“A shining fortune. Humans have killed each other for a single gem.”
― Anne Bishop, Vision in Silver

“No one else has the right to decide if or when we cut our skin, but if we don’t learn to interpret the warning signs that tell us if we really need to cut, we can become the enslavers as well as the enslaved. We can become our own enemy.”
― Anne Bishop, Vision in Silver

“The sweet blood has changed things. You have changed because of her. We are intrigued by the humans who have gathered around your Courtyard, so we will give you some time to decide how much human the terra indigene will keep. How much time was some time? And what, exactly, was he deciding to keep—the products humans made that the terra indigene found useful, or the pieces that, taken in total, made up the essential nature of humans? Was he supposed to decide if it was possible to have a human form of terra indigene? A century from now, would there be a Human and a human, like there was a Wolf and a wolf? What if there weren’t enough terra indigene who were willing to become that human? How much time was some time?”
― Anne Bishop, Vision in Silver

“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. Your friend, Meg”
― Anne Bishop, Vision in Silver

“He waited until they were driving to work before he mentioned the morning field trip. “Why do a field trip?” Meg asked. “Because someone untied its shoes?” Meg frowned. “That makes no sense.” “It makes as much sense as most human jokes.” “That’s true.” Simon”
― Anne Bishop, Vision in Silver

“Why couldn’t they just give the human female a bag of money and then pee on the building so that everyone would know it was theirs? This”
― Anne Bishop, Vision in Silver

“There is sickness here,” Henry said. “The bodywalker must tend to Boo Bear.” The”
― Anne Bishop, Vision in Silver

“Ruthie will help you write it.” There. Problem solved. Ruthie was a teacher. She wrote sentences all the time. “Have”
― Anne Bishop, Vision in Silver

“Why did humans give their offspring fake versions of predators that would happily eat those offspring? Those”
― Anne Bishop, Vision in Silver

“Meg kept her eyes on the road, her hands on the steering wheel, and refused to say anything when Simon sighed—again. “Meg, with the way you’re driving, we can reach the Market Square faster by walking.” “I’m being careful. There’s nothing wrong with being careful. You’re still healing and don’t need to be jostled.” “Dr. Lorenzo is waiting for us.” “He can examine Nathan first.” Okay, maybe she was going a bit too slow.”
― Anne Bishop, Vision in Silver