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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.

— Patricia A. McKillip Winter Rose (1996)

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

The Forgotten Beasts of Eld (1974)

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

Winter Rose (1996)

Perhaps there had never been anything at all to see.

Winter Rose (1996)

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?

Winter Rose (1996)

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

Winter Rose (1996)

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Religion in so far as it is a source of consolation is a hindrance to true faith; and in this sense atheism is a purification.

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