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  1. Patricia A. McKillip _ The Forgotten Beasts of Eld

    Soon is such a long word.
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  2. Patricia A. McKillip _ The Tower at Stony Wood

    Then she dropped her hands in her lap and stared out the window at the restless water that ran beyond the edge of the world, and pulled the sun and the moon and the stars every night down into its secret country.
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  3. Patricia A. McKillip _ Wonders of the Invisible World

    I suppose it was easier, in that harsh world, to make demons out of your neighbors, with their imperfections, tempers, rheumy eyes, missing teeth, irritating habits and smells, than to find angelic beauty in them.
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  4. Patricia A. McKillip _ The Forgotten Beasts of Eld

    Be gentle with yourself, my white one. Come with me tomorrow through the forest; we will gather black mushrooms and herbs that, crushed against the fingers, give a magic smell. You will feel the sun on your hair and the rich earth beneath your feet, and the fresh winds scented with the spice of snow from the hidden places on Eld Mountain. Be patient, as you must always be patient with new pale seeds buried in the dark ground. When you are stronger, you can begin to think again. But now is the time to feel.
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  5. Patricia A. McKillip _ Winter Rose

    I did not say what I thought; perhaps, if it remained unspoken, it would become untrue.
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  6. Patricia A. McKillip _ In the Forests of Serre

    I don't know you.""Then why did you do that for me?""Because you are so full of wonder. After what I-- After--" He gestured, his eyes hidden; deep lines ran down his cheeks like claw marks. "That seems very precious to me now. How could I not give you such a small thing?
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  7. Patricia A. McKillip _ The Forgotten Beasts of Eld

    You can weave your life so long-only so long, and then a thing in the world out of your control will tug at one vital thread and leave you patternless and subdued.
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  8. Patricia A. McKillip _ The Forgotten Beasts of Eld

    This bond I draw between you: that though you are parted in mind or in body, there will be a call in the core of you, one to the other, that nothing, no one else will answer to. By the secrets of earth and water, this bond is woven, unbreakable, irrevocable; by the law that created fire and wind this call is set in you, in life and beyond life . . .
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  9. Patricia A. McKillip _ Song for the Basilisk

    she was, like the paintings and marble pillars, a background detail in the house of the Basilisk. Only her bowing, the unexpected, enthusiastic shrieks she got out of the peasant's instrument, made her incongruous, and therefore real.
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  10. Patricia A. McKillip _ The Forgotten Beasts of Eld

    Can you call a man?""If I choose to," she said, surprised. "I have never done it.""Then if you ever have anything to fear from any man who comes here, will you call me? I will come. Whatever I am doing will remain undone, and I will come to you. Will you?""But why? You know I will do nothing for you. Why would you ride all the way from Sirle to help me?"He looked at her silently. Then he shrugged, the snow melting in his fiery hair. "I do not know. Because. Will you?""If I need you, I will call."He loosed her hand, smiling. "And I will come.""But I probably will not. Anyway, if I want you, I can call you, and you will come without choice."He sighed. He said patiently, "I choose to come. It makes a difference.""Does it?" Then her eyes curved slightly in a smile. "Go home to your world of the living, Coren. That is where you belong. I can take care of myself.""Perhaps." He gathered the reins in his hands, turned his mount toward the road that wound downward to Mondor. Then he looked back at her, his eyes the color of clear mountain water. "But one day you will find out how good it is to have someone who chooses to come when you call.
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  11. Patricia A. McKillip _ Alphabet of Thorn

    He was sitting in moonlight and candlelight, scratching the head of some beast that looked to Vevay a cross between a lion and a bear. It had black pelt, a flat, broad, fanged face, a powerful bulky body. It seemed to be purring. It cast a smoldering red glance at Vevay than closed it eyes again, leading heavy against Felan's knee."what on earth is that?" Vavey asked."I've no idea," Felon said. "It came out of an old book I was reading once and it never went back in again. It seems harmless and is very obliging: it let the students practice transformation spells on it. It eats strawberries when it can get them."
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  12. Patricia A. McKillip _ The Forgotten Beasts of Eld

    You can weave your life so long-only so long," Coren says to Sybel, "and then a thing in the world out of your control will tug at one vital thread and leave you patternless and subdued.
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