Patricia A. McKillip

Quotes

• “Kir stood close to his father, watching. He seemed, Peri realized, finally becalmed; already he looked more like his mot...”
• “Faey lived, for those who knew how to find her, within Ombria's past. Parts of the city's past lay within time's reach, ...”
• “I did not want to think about people. I wanted the trees, the scents and colors, the shifting shadows of the wood, which...”
• “I did not want to think about people. I wanted the trees, the scents and colors, the shifting shadows of the wood, which...”
• “Once I used my powers. Now I feel like a dancing instructor, reminding the queen whom she is dancing with at this hour a...”
• “But you must stop playing among his ghosts -- it's stupid and dangerous and completely pointless. He's trying to lay the...”
• “I thought of you with your hair silver as snow all through that cold, slow journey from Sirle. I felt you troubled deep ...”
• “A librarian had found the baby sitting abandoned on the sheer edge of the world; the librarians kept her. That proved sh...”
• “Oh...if you were older...It is not a bad thing, itself, but it is a bad thing to be used by men, to have them choose wha...”
• “What are the thorns really telling her? It's why she won't let us see them, why she clings to them--or they cling to her...”
• “You--cannot ever be certain of those you love--that they will not hurt you, even loving you. But to make me certain to l...”
• “Only yesterday a young woman came to me wanting a trap set for a man with a sweet smile and lithe arms. She was a fool, ...”
• “Be patient, as you must always be patient with new pale seeds buried in the dark ground. When you are stronger, you can ...”
• “I wish you were small again, so I could hold you in my arms and comfort you. But you are grown, and you know that for so...”
• “...that once were urgent and necessary for an orderly world and now were buried away, gathering dust and of no use to an...”
• “Words, he decided, were inadequate at best, impossible at worst. They meant too many things. Or they meant nothing at al...”
• “That's the beginning of magic. Let your imagination run and follow it.”
• “A net of words, he said at last, is more powerful than a net of rope.”
• “I don't teach lies, but I do not teach all I know is true.”
• “Shall I add a man to my collection?”