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> [“There was the gaudy patch of sunflowers beside the west gate of the palace of the Prince of Ombria, that did nothing all day long but turn their golden-haired, thousand-eyed faces to follow the sun.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patricia-a-mckillip/there-was-the-gaudy-patch-of-sunflowers-beside-the-west-gate-of-the/)

[Patricia A. McKillip](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patricia-a-mckillip/)

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## More by Patricia A. McKillip

> [“Be patient, as you must always be patient with new pale seeds buried in the dark ground. When you are stronger, you can begin…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patricia-a-mckillip/be-patient-as-you-must-always-be-patient-with-new-pale-seeds-buried/)

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> [“I wish you were small again, so I could hold you in my arms and comfort you. But you are grown, and you know…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patricia-a-mckillip/i-wish-you-were-small-again-so-i-could-hold-you-in-my-arms-and/)

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> [“He exuded ambiguities she decided, that was his fascination. His mouth spoke; his eyes said something other: his smile belied everything… He played with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patricia-a-mckillip/he-exuded-ambiguities-she-decided-that-was-his-fascination-his-mouth/)

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> [ \[Imagination\] must be visited constantly, or else it begins to become restless and emit strange bellows at embarrassing moments; ignoring it only makes it… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patricia-a-mckillip/imagination-must-be-visited-constantly-or-else-it-begins-to-become/)

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> [I thought of you with your hair silver as snow all through that cold, slow journey from Sirle. I felt you troubled deep within…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patricia-a-mckillip/i-thought-of-you-with-your-hair-silver-as-snow-all-through-that-cold/)

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> [I don't teach lies, but I do not teach all I know is true.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patricia-a-mckillip/i-don-t-teach-lies-but-i-do-not-teach-all-i-know-is-true/)

[Patricia A. McKillip](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patricia-a-mckillip/)

> [“When he held a candle across the threshold, the black swallowed the fire completely. When he tried to step across it, he felt nothing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patricia-a-mckillip/when-he-held-a-candle-across-the-threshold-the-black-swallowed-the/)

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> [Do you become in visible?' 'No. I'm there, if you know how to look. I stand between the place you look at and the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patricia-a-mckillip/do-you-become-in-visible-no-i-m-there-if-you-know-how-to-look-i-stand/)

[Patricia A. McKillip](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patricia-a-mckillip/)

> [“Morgan," he whispered, "I wish you had not been someone I loved so.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patricia-a-mckillip/morgan-he-whispered-i-wish-you-had-not-been-someone-i-loved-so/)

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> [“Tell me the story of the locket.' 'Once upon a time, my lord, in the best and the worst of all possible words, a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patricia-a-mckillip/tell-me-the-story-of-the-locket-once-upon-a-time-my-lord-in-the-best/)

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> [Love and anger are like land and sea: They meet at many different places.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patricia-a-mckillip/love-and-anger-are-like-land-and-sea-they-meet-at-many-different/)

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> [When you put your hands and mind and heart into the knowing of a thing ... there is no room in you for fear.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patricia-a-mckillip/when-you-put-your-hands-and-mind-and-heart-into-the-knowing-of-a/)

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> [“He finally took his harp out of the cobwebs, walked out the door, and admitted who he was: the Unforgiven.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patricia-a-mckillip/he-finally-took-his-harp-out-of-the-cobwebs-walked-out-the-door-and/)

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> [“He had no place in the world, he said once, therefore he could go everywhere.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patricia-a-mckillip/he-had-no-place-in-the-world-he-said-once-therefore-he-could-go/)

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> [“The tutor's eyelids drooped; his thoughts drained out of his face like water seeping into earth.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patricia-a-mckillip/the-tutor-s-eyelids-drooped-his-thoughts-drained-out-of-his-face-like/)

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