100 Quotes by Patricia A. McKillip
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I write fantasy because it’s there. I have no other excuse for sitting down for several hours a day indulging my imagination. Daydreaming. Thinking up imaginary people, impossible places.
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Is she crazy?” “No,” he said simply. “But sometimes her sanity is terrifying.
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Every moment is like a wheel with a hundred spokes in it. We ride always at the hub of the wheel and go forward as it turns. We ignore the array of other moments constantly turning around us. We are surrounded by doorways; we never open them.
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When you open your mind and hands and heart to the knowing of a thing, there is no room in you for fear.
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Peace, tremulous, unexpected, sent a taproot out of nowhere into Morgan’s heart.
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He had made tiny pipes of feathers he had found along the streets; birds answered him here as they had in the hinterlands. A night-bird, singing back to his playing, showed him the loose bar in the iron fence, the furrowed earth along which the bar swung sideways, that told him, as the bird did, that others came here secretly. Around him, the sleeping city dreamed, tossed fretfully, muttered, dreamed again.
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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.
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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, beneath the streets in great old limestone tunnels: the hovels and mansions and sunken river that Ombria shrugged off like a forgotten skin, and buried beneath itself through the centuries.
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Wisdom never learned silence, and it is most annoying when least wanted.
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