Books Quote 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…

— Patricia A. McKillip

“I wish you were small again, so I could hold you in my arms and comfort you. But you are grown, and you know…

— Patricia A. McKillip

“He exuded ambiguities she decided, that was his fascination. His mouth spoke; his eyes said something other: his smile belied everything… He played with…

— Patricia A. McKillip

[Imagination] must be visited constantly, or else it begins to become restless and emit strange bellows at embarrassing moments; ignoring it only makes it…

— Patricia A. McKillip

I thought of you with your hair silver as snow all through that cold, slow journey from Sirle. I felt you troubled deep within…

— Patricia A. McKillip

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

— 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…

— Patricia A. McKillip

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…

— Patricia A. McKillip

“Morgan," he whispered, "I wish you had not been someone I loved so.”

— Patricia A. McKillip

“Tell me the story of the locket.' 'Once upon a time, my lord, in the best and the worst of all possible words, a…

— Patricia A. McKillip

Love and anger are like land and sea: They meet at many different places.

— 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