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Women hold their councils of war in kitchens: the knives are there, and the cups of coffee, and the towels to dry the tears.
— Patricia A. McKillip
He went into a dark tower of truth for you. Do you have the courage to give him your own name?
— Patricia A. McKillip
Content, it dreams awake, and spins the fabric of tales. There is really nothing to be done with such imagery except to use it: in writing, in art.
— Patricia A. McKillip
How strange to be in a dream one moment and in the world the next, and to know the difference in the blink of an eye.
— Patricia A. McKillip
Men see what they are most afraid of.
— Patricia A. McKillip
What? It was a good word. Like a rock in a river, sticking up to let you land on it, so you could make your way across the flow.
— Patricia A. McKillip
Shall I add a man to my collection?
— Patricia A. McKillip
The tutor's eyelids drooped; his thoughts drained out of his face like water seeping into earth.
— Patricia A. McKillip
It's so hard to think in winter. The world seems confined in the space of your heart; you can't see beyond yourself.
— Patricia A. McKillip
There are no simple words. I don't know why I thought I could hide anything behind language.
— Patricia A. McKillip
No song, no peace, no poetry, no end of days, and no forgetting.
— Patricia A. McKillip
Something - a flick of color, the faint beat of the earth under my feet, or maybe my name in someone's thoughts - made me lift my eyes.
— Patricia A. McKillip
Sorry, he said penitently. It's a book. I have no common sense around them.
— Patricia A. McKillip
When you put your hands and mind and heart into the knowing of a thing ... there is no room in you for fear.
— Patricia A. McKillip
All I wanted, even when I hated you most, was some poor, barren, parched excuse to love you. But you only gave me riddles.
— Patricia A. McKillip
He closed his grade book and asked hopefully, "What inspired you? Was it Hawthorne?"I stared at him. He had to be kidding. — Patricia A. McKillip
I don't teach lies, but I do not teach all I know is true.
— Patricia A. McKillip
It was no warning, no judgment, simply her name, and she could have wept at the recognition of it.
— Patricia A. McKillip
That's the beginning of magic. Let your imagination run and follow it.
— Patricia A. McKillip
Explain to me again," he begged," why we are here."She had told him once before; it had been like listening to a vivid, improbable dream. — Patricia A. McKillip
Then you will have to trust me. Beyond logic, beyond reason, beyond hope, trust me.
— Patricia A. McKillip
Love and anger are like land and sea: They meet at many different places.
— Patricia A. McKillip
Peace, tremulous, unexpected, sent a taproot out of nowhere into Morgan's heart.
— Patricia A. McKillip
He had no place in the world, he said once, therefore he could go everywhere.
— Patricia A. McKillip
The odd thing about people who had many books was how they always wanted more.
— Patricia A. McKillip
The giant Grof 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. -Cyrin
— Patricia A. McKillip
He finally took his harp out of the cobwebs, walked out the door, and admitted who he was: the Unforgiven.
— Patricia A. McKillip
Words, he decided, were inadequate at best, impossible at worst. They meant too many things. Or they meant nothing at all.
— Patricia A. McKillip
Epics are never written about libraries. They exist on whim; it depends on if the conquering army likes to read.
— Patricia A. McKillip
That once were urgent and necessary for an orderly world and now were buried away, gathering dust and of no use to anyone.
— Patricia A. McKillip
Imagination is the golden-eyed monster that never sleeps. It must be fed; it cannot be ignored.
— Patricia A. McKillip
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
— Patricia A. McKillip
If you speak of this I will tear out your voice and top it down the nearest drain
— Patricia A. McKillip
Morgan," he whispered, "I wish you had not been someone I loved so.
— Patricia A. McKillip