Patricia Mckillip Quotes

I love so many books and authors that it's hard to name just a few, but I'm always particularly excited when new books by Alice Hoffman, John Crowley, Joanne Harris, Elizabeth Knox, and Patricia McKillip come out. (And, of course, books by Ellen [Kushner], and Holly [Black], and the rest of the Bordertown crew!) I'm impatiently looking forward to Susanna Clarke's next book too.
Aside from writing and reading, my favorite things to do are paint, walk in the countryside with my dog, and listen to music
especially when it's live and it's played by friends. Fortunately there's a lot of live music where I live. ~ Terri Windling

I developed my very first game after reading "Riddle Master" by Patricia McKillip. ~ Klaus Teuber

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

Generally, in a verbally abusive relationship the abuser denies the abuse. Verbal abuse most often takes place behind closed doors. Physical abuse is always preceded by verbal abuse. ~ Patricia Evans

....though we may not have a completely willing heart every time we serve, such service molds our heart, blesses us, and does enlarge our capacity to give. ~ Patricia T. Holland

after the rain
bomb craters filled
with stars

- John Brandi ~ Patricia Donegan

One key reason that standpoints of oppressed groups are suppressed is that self-defined standpoints can stimulate resistance. ~ Patricia Hill Collins

Her name is Maud Silver. Louisa says she has solved many difficult cases besides being an extremely expert knitter. ~ Patricia Wentworth

The odds are not in your favor the older you get, especially if you're a woman in this business. ~ Patricia Clarkson

He was pushing fifty, with a face life had chewed on, and long wisps of graying hair parted low on one side and combed over his balding pate. ~ Patricia Cornwell

When is the last time you were a tourist?" she asked archly.

He just looked at her. Charles, she had to agree, was not tourist material.

"Right," Anna told him. "Buck up. You might even enjoy it."

"You might as well have 'hapless victim' tattooed across your forehead," he muttered. ~ Patricia Briggs

I don't think you're supposed to be able to get at that information," said Leslie.
"Don't look," said Goldstein, peering over Charles's shoulder. "We don't know anything about illegal hacking." He whistled cheerily. ~ Patricia Briggs

Most of my life I've felt was dreaming. Now and then I wake up, sometimes for months, sometimes for minutes. Tonight I'm awake, and I lie thinking about the recent events and the people whose lives have crossed mine like veins in an old woman's hands. Their faces float past…the twisted and the lame...the strong…the loving…for we are all twisted and lame, strong and loving. ~ Patricia Harman

I have a brain and a uterus, and I use both. ~ Patricia Schroeder

I felt a little bad about killing the man, but what choice did I have?" ... Louie Morelli, "The Prince of Mafia Princes. ~ Patricia Bellomo

Society must stop the silence and raise their voice to child sexual abuse. ~ Patricia Dsouza

When it became obvious that the stranger was no longer a threat, Laeth said congenially, "She doesn't like it when men touch her without an invitation. You're lucky that she's in a good mood or she'd have just cut your hand off - that's what she did to the last man who tried it."
A friend of Laeth's leaned over from a nearby table and said sadly, "Poor Jard was never the same."
"Remember what she did to Lothar?" added another man, shaking his head.
"Took us three days to find all the pieces so that we could bury him," commented one of Laeth's fellow lieutenants, a stocky, bald man with a friendly face. He leaned closer and said softly, "But then, Lothar tried to kiss her. ~ Patricia Briggs

The light moves slowly down its flanks and gradually fills the lower valleys.

Kahn, Peter H. , Jr.
Hasbach, Patricia H.
2012-08-13 Ecopsychology ~ Peter H. Kahn Jr.

Though, the type of abuse differs from each individual, all survivors of child abuse deal with a certain extent of trauma, consciously or unconsciously. ~ Patricia Dsouza

Early in 1967 Highsmith's agent told her why her books did not sell in paperback in America. It was, said Patricia Schartle Myrer, because they were 'too subtle', combined with the fact that none of her characters were likeable. 'Perhaps it is because I don't like anyone,' Highsmith replied. 'My last books may be about animals'. ~ Andrew Wilson

One must know a bad performance to know a good one. You can't be middle-of-the-road about it, just as you can't be middle-of-the-road about life. I mean, you can't say about Hitler, I can take him or leave him. Well, I can't be middle-of-the-road about a performance, especially my own. I feel that if I can vomit at seeing a bad performance, I'm ahead of the game. ~ Patricia Bosworth

Stories live forever. Storytellers don't. ~ Patricia Stephens Due

If you touch me, Charles will hunt you down and eat your marrow while you are still alive to scream." She called upon her two acting classes and let her mouth turn up. "I'll be happy to watch." She licked her lips. The smile dropped off his face, and he growled. ~ Patricia Briggs

Is this for someone special?" asked the saleslady as she folded my purchase in layers of tissue paper.
"For my mama," I said proudly. "She dead. ~ Patricia Williams

Fleur to Doral:
"My love for you and Ari cannot be measured in words. It can only be measured by what I will do for you. Absolutely anything. By what I want for you. Absolutely everything. I would move Verdantia from her orbit to defend you from all that would hurt you." She rose and crossed to him, sliding into his lap and snuggling into his broad chest. She hugged him fiercely.

"You are mine, Doral, every bit as much as Ari. Those who hurt you do so at their peril. ~ Patricia A. Knight

You possess the right to celebrate your victory, your healing, your recovery. ~ Patricia Dsouza

That first phrase-please bless me, Father, for I have sinned-was so humbling and so total, Matt always felt a kind of absolution as soon as he said it ~ Patricia McCormick

And on top of everything, Mairelon hadn't even said she looked nice. ~ Patricia C. Wrede

It has always been an ambition of mine to serve as an object lesson for others. ~ Patricia Briggs

We worshipped a great white body that was an avalanche of good news, and we slit it open in every part. "That can't go through the mail," the postman gasped, "because that is a super-stabbed body!" The super-stabbed body rose up, with many butterknives sticking out of it, and said, "I AM the mail." It had so many lovers. ~ Patricia Lockwood

In a verbally abusive relationship, the partner learns to tolerate abuse without realizing it and to lose self-esteem without realizing it. She is blamed by the abuser and becomes the scapegoat. The partner is then the victim. ~ Patricia Evans

People who know other people's secrets can't afford to do things that impair their ability to control their mouths. ~ Patricia Briggs

You don't understand," Mairelon said dully. "Kim doesn't want to marry a toff."
Was that what was bothering him? "Well, of all the bacon-brained, sapskulled, squirish, buffle-headed nod cocks!" Kim said with as much indignation as she could muster. "I was talking about the marquis, not about you!"
Mairelon's eyes kindled. "Then you would?"
"You've whiddled it," Kim informed him.
As he kissed her again, she heard Mrs. Lowe murmur, "Mind your language, Kim," and Shoreham say in an amused tone, "Yes, Your Grace, I believe that
was an affirmative answer. ~ Patricia C. Wrede

War is the extreme edge of capitalism: an economic system so designed that it is always tipped in balance so that the mouth of the few is open
at the exact place where the food will fall from the lips of the hungry onto the tongues of the already satisfied. ~ Patricia J. McLean

My favorite body part? My feet. They're not pretty, but they get me where I want to go. ~ Patricia Heaton

It felt safe under the duvet. The world couldn't reach Patricia now she was hiding under a thick layer of polyester. ~ Emily Organ

More or less of these inner assets are still available within you to help you to not just live but to flourish. ~ Patricia Dsouza

It's very hard to find good and wholesome, edifying and challenging writing for the students to perform. In my classroom I strive to do that as best as I can. ~ Patricia Mauceri

And the artist, Jaume Plensa's philosophy?" "No, not that." Philippe continued, his voice becoming quietly intimate. "I read an interview with him that touched me deeply. The feeling he expresses through this work is that letters are like bricks. They help us to construct our thoughts. He described his belief that our skin is permanently and invisibly tattooed with the text of our life experiences, and then someone comes along - a friend, a lover - who is able to decipher these tattoos." Biting ~ Patricia Sands

Out here, it's better safe than sorry, because generally speaking, too much of the time sorry means you're dead. ~ Patricia C. Wrede

I know the situations that we do every week are all ones that I encounter in my life or will encounter. ~ Patricia Heaton

Vic kept looking at Wilson's wagging jaw and thinking of the multitude of people like him on earth, perhaps half the people on earth were of his type, or potentially his type, and thinking that it was not bad at all to be leaving them. The ugly birds without wings. The mediocre who perpetuated mediocrity, who really fought and died for it. He smiled at Wilson's grim, resentful, the-world-owes-me-a-living face, which was the reflection of the small mind behind it, and Vic cursed it and all it stood for. Silently, and with a smile, and with all that was left of him, he cursed it. ~ Patricia Highsmith