100 Quotes by Patricia A. McKillip

But dear, you hate to sew.I will be married soon. Lady Thiel says a woman with needlework in her hands is generally assumed to have no other thoughts in her head and can safely harbor any number of improprieties. That will come in handy, especially when I'm married to a wizard.

I think they could teach us unimaginable things. Unimaginable! I can't imagine anything except danger.I know. That's why they're afraid of you.

All I wanted, even when I hated you most, was some poor, barren, parched excuse to love you. But you only gave me riddles.

You--cannot ever be certain of those you love--that they will not hurt you, even loving you. But to make me certain to love you, will be to take away any love I might give you freely.

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.

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.

I don’t teach lies, but I do not teach all I know is true.

Then you will have to trust me. Beyond logic, beyond reason, beyond hope, trust me.

It was no warning, no judgment, simply her name, and she could have wept at the recognition of it.