"She is our moon. Our tidal pull. She……" — Patricia A. McKillip
"She is our moon. Our tidal pull. She is the rich deep beneath the sea, the buried treasure, the expression in the owl's eye, the perfume in the wild rose. She is what the water says when it moves."
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31 Quotes by Patricia A. McKillip
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...that once were urgent and necessary for an orderly world and now were buried away, gathering dust and of no…
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Imagination is best fed by reality, an odd diet for something nonexistent there are few details of daily life and…
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The man was hit in one eye by a stone, and that eye turned inward so that it looked into…
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But even in the schoolyard I'd been aware of that silence, that reserve in him, as though he'd been raised…
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Words, he decided, were inadequate at best, impossible at worst. They meant too many things. Or they meant nothing at…
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When you put your hands and mind and heart into the knowing of a thing ... there is no room…
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The odd thing about people who had many books was how they always wanted more.
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What?" It was a good word. Like a rock in a river, sticking up to let you land on it,…
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Only yesterday a young woman came to me wanting a trap set for a man with a sweet smile and…
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If you have no faith in yourself, then have faith in the things you call truth. You know what must…
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Those who fear the imagination condemn it: something childish, they say, something monsterish, misbegotten. Not all of us dream awake.…
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Epics are never written about libraries. They exist on whim; it depends on if the conquering army likes to read.
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