Patricia A. McKillip: Likeness

Patricia A. McKillip is American fantasy writer. Explore interesting quotes on likeness.
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“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.”

Patricia A. McKillip book Winter Rose

Source: Winter Rose (1996), Chapter 5, pp. 42-43.

“Night is not something to endure until dawn. It is an element, like wind or fire. Darkness is its own kingdom; it moves to its own laws, and many living things dwell in it.”

Patricia A. McKillip book Harpist in the Wind

Source: Harpist in the Wind

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

Patricia A. McKillip book The Changeling Sea

Source: The Changeling Sea

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

Patricia A. McKillip book Winter Rose

Source: Winter Rose (1996), Chapter 7, p. 64.

“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?”

Patricia A. McKillip book Winter Rose

Source: Winter Rose (1996), Chapter 21, p. 211.