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• 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.

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  Dream, Art, Writing

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• Here in Raine, I can walk with the sunlight on my face. I can speak to anyone who speaks to me. I can learn my daughter's language. I can be called the name I was given when I was born. Here I am no longer my own secret. Will you let me stay?

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  Daughter, Here I Am, Names

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• There are no simple words. I don't know why I thought I could hide anything behind language.

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  Simple, Language, Behinds

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

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  Sea, Land, Different

  Patricia A. McKillip (2003). “The Changeling Sea”, p.59, Penguin

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• 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

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  Eye, Men, Mind

  Patricia A. McKillip (2017). “The Forgotten Beasts of Eld”, p.76, Tachyon Publications

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• 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.

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  Rocks, Land, Rivers

  Patricia A. McKillip (2006). “Solstice Wood”, p.138, Penguin

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• Shall I add a man to my collection?

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  Men, Add, Collections

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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 by foxes and language was his second language.

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  Silence, Foxes, Language

  Patricia A. McKillip (2006). “Solstice Wood”, p.37, Penguin

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• Only yesterday a young woman came to me wanting a trap set for a man with a sweet smile and lithe arms. She was a fool, not for wanting him, but for wanting more of him than that.

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  Sweet, Men, Yesterday

  Patricia A. McKillip (2017). “The Forgotten Beasts of Eld”, p.32, Tachyon Publications

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• Peace, tremulous, unexpected, sent a taproot out of nowhere into Morgan's heart.

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  Heart, Unexpected

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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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  Hate, Here I Am, Want

  Patricia A. McKillip (2017). “The Forgotten Beasts of Eld”, p.64, Tachyon Publications

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• ...that once were urgent and necessary for an orderly world and now were buried away, gathering dust and of no use to anyone.

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  Dust, Gathering, Use

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• Research the imagination. It was as obsolete as the appendix in most adults, except for those in whom, like the appendix, it became inflamed for no reason.

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  Imagination, Adults, Research

  Patricia A. McKillip (2012). “Wonders of the Invisible World”, p.18, Tachyon Publications

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• Love is an obsolete emotion, ranking in usefulness somewhere between earwigs and toe mold.

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  Love Is, Toes, Ranking

  Patricia A. McKillip (2005). “Harrowing the Dragon”, p.90, Penguin

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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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  Army, Epic, Library

  Patricia A. McKillip (2005). “Alphabet Of Thorn”, p.68, Penguin

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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.

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  Long, Sunflower, Golden

  Patricia A. McKillip (2002). “Ombria in Shadow”, p.14, Penguin

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• All I wanted, even when I hated you most, was some poor, barren, parched excuse to love you. But you only gave me riddles.

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  Love You, Excuse, Poor

  "Riddle of Stars (The Quest of the Riddle-Master Trilogy)". Book by Patricia A. McKillip, October 1, 1979.

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