Patricia A. McKillip quotes

Wisdom never learned silence, and it is most annoying when least wanted. (Patricia A. McKillip)
I do not want to choose which one of you I must love or hate. Here, I am free to do neither. I want no part of your bitterness. View quote
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Men see what they are most afraid of. View quote
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She is our moon. Our tidal pull. She is the rich deep beneath the sea, the buried treasure, the expression in the owl's eye, the perfume in the wild rose. She is what the water says when it moves. View quote
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There are no simple words. I don't know why I thought I could hide anything behind language. View quote
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What concern of mine are your affairs? Or Coren's? What kind of peace would there be in me or in my house if I took interest in the wars and feuds that you weave in the courts below? I do not understand such things. I understand only what lies within my walls. View quote
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Love is what we say it is,” she said fiercely. "That's all I know. That's all anyone knows about it. I'm sorry. View quote
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Perhaps there had never been anything at all to see. View quote
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Do you care for me at all? Or do you only need me? View quote
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The Riddle Master himself lost the key to his own riddles one day,” he said in his deep, reed-pure voice, "and he found it again at the bottom of his heart. View quote
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He was silent a moment, struggling. He said finally, "But you had a right to be angry.” "Yes. But not to hurt those I love, or myself.”. (Patricia A. McKillip)
But, Corbet, there were things-between us-” "You imagined many of them. You wanted them to be true, and so they were. But only to you. View quote
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He kissed her anyway, lightly on the cheek, before she turned to get her coat, thinking how long he had known her and how little he knew her and how little he knew of how much or little there was in her to know. View quote
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Imagination is the golden-eyed monster that never sleeps. It must be fed; it cannot be ignored. View quote
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The odd thing about people who had many books was how they always wanted more. View quote
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Words, he decided, were inadequate at best, impossible at worst. They meant too many things. Or they meant nothing at all. View quote
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Those who fear the imagination condemn it: something childish, they say, something monsterish, misbegotten. Not all of us dream awake. But those of us who do have no choice. View quote
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The man was hit in one eye by a stone, and that eye turned inward so that it looked into his mind, and he died of what he saw there. View quote
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Night is not something to endure until dawn. It is an element, like wind or fire. Darkness is its own kingdom; it moves to its own laws, and many living things dwell in it. View quote
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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, not for wanting him, but for wanting more of him than that. View quote
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It's an odd thing, happiness. Some people take happiness from gold. Or black pearls. And some of us, far more fortunate, take their happiness from periwinkles. (Patricia A. McKillip)
I could not find my way back in dreams, I knew then. They were memory and desire, terror and hope; they told me only what I already knew. View quote
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Water has its moods, flowing or still; it can lure you like a lover, or look as bleak as a broken heart. View quote
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I didn't know anymore what love meant, or why we were not all better off without it. View quote
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She lies like the moon lies, a different face every night, all but one of them false, and the one true face as barren and hard as stone. Why do you believe her? View quote
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