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Marked in Flesh (The Others, #4) QUOTES

Marked in Flesh (The Others, #4) QUOTES

1 " The Dimwit's Guide to the Female Mind might assist your efforts in understanding human females. But it must be pointed out that this subject can be a dangerous adventure and should be undertaken with extreme caution. After all, human males have been trying to understand their females for generations, and most of the time they come away from these encounters looking like someone stuck their tails into an electric socket. "

― Anne Bishop , Marked in Flesh (The Others, #4)

2 " He gently kissed that scar and felt something changing inside him - just a flutter of change, there and gone, but leaving its mark. "

― Anne Bishop , Marked in Flesh (The Others, #4)

3 " The police have no leads as yet on the person or persons who painted obscene suggestions on the buildings. One store owner said he was going to leave a dictionary on a public bench so the vandals could at least spell the obscenities correctly. "

― Anne Bishop , Marked in Flesh (The Others, #4)

4 " While he waited, he made up the bed,more to discourage Meg from falling back into it than because he wanted to tidy the room. Besides, running his hands over the sheets and breathing in her scent made him happy, "

― Anne Bishop , Marked in Flesh (The Others, #4)

5 " He didn't understand why everyone fussed about taking clean clothes out of a drawer. Underclothes smelled a lot more interesting after the female wore them. "

― Anne Bishop , Marked in Flesh (The Others, #4)

6 " You always believed we could survive in the outside world. I'm doing everything I can to give at least some of us a chance of not only surviving but truly living. "

― Anne Bishop , Marked in Flesh (The Others, #4)

7 " No. I’m not hot, and I don’t want to do the Squeaky Dance.” Simon sighed. This day was full of disappointments. "

― Anne Bishop , Marked in Flesh (The Others, #4)

8 " One store owner said he was going to leave a dictionary on a public bench so the vandals could at least spell the obscenities correctly. It "

― Anne Bishop , Marked in Flesh (The Others, #4)

9 " What are you going to call them?” Meg asked. “Lunch?” Simon offered. The female pack gave him a look that made him think running away would be a good idea, if he wasn’t the leader and couldn’t back down. "

― Anne Bishop , Marked in Flesh (The Others, #4)

10 " She swallowed hard. “I want to try skinny-dipping.” He was so still, she wasn’t sure he was even breathing. "

― Anne Bishop , Marked in Flesh (The Others, #4)

11 " And when one kind of animal overruns an area to the point where many kinds of animal begin to starve, it’s up to the predators to thin out the herds before there’s nothing left for anyone. That’s a simple truth whether you’re talking about deer or humans. "

― Anne Bishop , Marked in Flesh (The Others, #4)

12 " The first card was a beautifully rendered but terrifying representation of what Henry guessed was one of the Elders’ forms. Next was half a Wolf cookie. Last was a card that had a simple drawing of a smiley face. “That is sooooo wrong,” Merri Lee said, shuddering. “Yes, it is.” Henry picked "

― Anne Bishop , Marked in Flesh (The Others, #4)

13 " He hadn’t observed Kowalski or Debany licking their mates’ hands. "

― Anne Bishop , Marked in Flesh (The Others, #4)

14 " And the things we girls need because no one wants to run out of those supplies in the middle of a blizzard. "

― Anne Bishop , Marked in Flesh (The Others, #4)

15 " Six flashlights turned on, beacons that said, We’re here, come eat us! "

― Anne Bishop , Marked in Flesh (The Others, #4)

16 " But the thoughts were excellent hunters and devoured sleep. "

― Anne Bishop , Marked in Flesh (The Others, #4)

17 " My name is Hope Wolfsong,” she whispered. “I am not cs821. Not anymore. Never again. "

― Anne Bishop , Marked in Flesh (The Others, #4)

18 " We’re going to destroy Cel-Romano. I wanted you to know that before you die,” Stavros said. “You upstart infestation. You thought you could wipe out the terra indigene? It’s your species that is going to wither—and you will be one of the things the survivors, if there are any, can thank for that.” He released Scratch and floated a safe distance away as dozens of the Sharkgard rushed in to strike the enemy, consuming the human piece by piece. A foot. A hand. A forearm. A thigh. "

― Anne Bishop , Marked in Flesh (The Others, #4)

19 " Do you know what the Sharkgard call humans on a ship?> "

― Anne Bishop , Marked in Flesh (The Others, #4)

20 " Humans were no end of trouble even before they did anything. "

― Anne Bishop , Marked in Flesh (The Others, #4)