# Patricia A. McKillip

- Quotes: 17
- Author page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/patricia-a-mckillip

## Books

- [The Forgotten Beasts of Eld](https://www.leafyquotes.com/patricia-a-mckillip/the-forgotten-beasts-of-eld.md) — 7 quotes
- [Winter Rose](https://www.leafyquotes.com/patricia-a-mckillip/winter-rose.md) — 10 quotes

## Recently added quotes

> “You fought for your freedom and won a different kind of prison. I will fight for mine—”
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> “You can’t fight me,” Tearle reminded him harshly.
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> “I know.” In the placid light, his face looked chilled and very weary. “But I can die.”

p. 145 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/patricia-a-mckillip/winter-rose/you-fought-for.md)

> I could not find my way back in dreams, I knew then. They were memory and desire, terror and hope; they told me only what I already knew.

p. 155 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/patricia-a-mckillip/winter-rose/i-could-not.md)

> She lies like the moon lies, a different face every night, all but one of them false, and the one true face as barren and hard as stone. Why do you believe her?

p. 211 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/patricia-a-mckillip/winter-rose/she-lies-like.md)

> I was running from my own thoughts as much as anything. I simply wanted to untangle myself from the web I had touched. A single, sticky, quivering strand of it was all I needed to warn me away. I did not want to think about people. I wanted the trees, the scents and colors, the shifting shadows of the wood, which spoke a language I understood. I wished I could simply disappear in it, live like a bird or a fox through the winter, and leave the things I had glimpsed to resolve themselves without me.

p. 42 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/patricia-a-mckillip/winter-rose/i-was-running.md)

> “Love is what we say it is,” she said fiercely. “That’s all I know. That’s all anyone knows about it. I’m sorry.”

p. 158 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/patricia-a-mckillip/winter-rose/love-is-what.md)

> Water has its moods, flowing or still; it can lure you like a lover, or look as bleak as a broken heart.

p. 64 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/patricia-a-mckillip/winter-rose/water-has-its.md)

> “But, Corbet, there were things—between us—”
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> “You imagined many of them. You wanted them to be true, and so they were. But only to you.”

p. 242 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/patricia-a-mckillip/winter-rose/but-corbet-there.md)

> I didn’t know anymore what love meant, or why we were not all better off without it.

p. 217 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/patricia-a-mckillip/winter-rose/i-didnt-know.md)

> Do you care for me at all? Or do you only need me?

p. 212 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/patricia-a-mckillip/winter-rose/do-you-care.md)

> Perhaps there had never been anything at all to see.

p. 250 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/patricia-a-mckillip/winter-rose/perhaps-there-had.md)

> He was silent a moment, struggling. He said finally, “But you had a right to be angry.”
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> “Yes. But not to hurt those I love, or myself.”

p. 322 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/patricia-a-mckillip/the-forgotten-beasts-of-eld/he-was-silent.md)

> “The Riddle Master himself lost the key to his own riddles one day,” he said in his deep, reed-pure voice, “and he found it again at the bottom of his heart.”

p. 311 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/patricia-a-mckillip/the-forgotten-beasts-of-eld/the-riddle-master.md)