Patricia A. McKillip: Want

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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.

People , Color , Bird , Thinking

“The odd thing about people who had many books was how they always wanted more.”

Patricia A. McKillip The Bell at Sealey Head

Source: The Bell at Sealey Head

People , Books

“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.”

Patricia A. McKillip
Smile , Fools

“Wisdom never learned silence, and it is most annoying when least wanted.”

Patricia A. McKillip book The Forgotten Beasts of Eld

Source: The Forgotten Beasts of Eld (1974), Chapter 10, p. 272.

Wisdom , Silence , Learning

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

Patricia A. McKillip book Winter Rose

Source: Winter Rose (1996), Chapter 23, p. 242.

Imagination

“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.”

Patricia A. McKillip book The Forgotten Beasts of Eld

Source: The Forgotten Beasts of Eld (1974), Chapter 3, p. 87.

Love , Hate , Parting