# Quote — Patricia A. McKillip, Winter Rose

> “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.”

- Author: [Patricia A. McKillip](https://www.leafyquotes.com/patricia-a-mckillip.md)
- Book: [Winter Rose](https://www.leafyquotes.com/patricia-a-mckillip/winter-rose.md)
- Page: 158
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Patricia_A._McKillip#Winter_Rose_(1996)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/patricia-a-mckillip/winter-rose/love-is-what

## More from this book

> “You fought for your freedom and won a different kind of prison. I will fight for mine—”
>
> “You can’t fight me,” Tearle reminded him harshly.
>
> “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)