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Winter Rose

Winter Rose
Patricia A. McKillip

Winter Rose is a 1996 fantasy novel by American writer Patricia A. McKillip. It was nominated for the 1996 Nebula Award and 1997 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel, and was a finalist for the 1997 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature. In 2006, McKillip published its sequel, Solstice Wood.

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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.”

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

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“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.”

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Source: Winter Rose (1996), Chapter 16, p. 155.

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

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

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

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Source: Winter Rose (1996), Chapter 21, p. 217.

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“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?”

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

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““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.””

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Source: Winter Rose (1996), Chapter 15, p. 145.

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“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.”

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Source: Winter Rose (1996), Chapter 16, p. 158.

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“Perhaps there had never been anything at all to see.”

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Source: Winter Rose (1996), Chapter 24, p. 250.

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

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Source: Winter Rose (1996), Chapter 21, p. 212.

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“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.”

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

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