{"author":"Patricia A. McKillip","author_id":"Patricia+A.+McKillip","total_quotes":26,"quotes":[{"text":"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.","author":"Patricia A. McKillip","tags":["fantasy","heartache","love"],"id":4899,"author_id":"Patricia+A.+McKillip"},{"text":"A librarian had found the baby sitting abandoned on the sheer edge of the world; the librarians kept her. That proved shrewd. Nepenthe had drooled on words, talked at them, and tried to eat them until she learned to take them into her eyes instead of her mouth.","author":"Patricia A. McKillip","tags":["books","words"],"id":18451,"author_id":"Patricia+A.+McKillip"},{"text":"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.","author":"Patricia A. McKillip","tags":["folklore","forest","fox","myths","nature","trees","woods"],"id":74402,"author_id":"Patricia+A.+McKillip"},{"text":"Shall I add a man to my collection?","author":"Patricia A. McKillip","tags":["humorous"],"id":118239,"author_id":"Patricia+A.+McKillip"},{"text":"A net of words, he said at last, is more powerful than a net of rope.","author":"Patricia A. McKillip","tags":["power","words"],"id":121450,"author_id":"Patricia+A.+McKillip"},{"text":"The idea of fairyland fascinates me because it's one of those things, like mermaids and dragons, that doesn't really exist, but everyone knows about it anyway. Fairyland lies only in the eye of the beholder who is usually a fabricator of fantasy. So what good is it, this enchanted, fickle land which in some tales bodes little good to humans and, in others, is the land of peace and perpetual summer where everyone longs to be? Perhaps it's just a glimpse of our deepest wishes and greatest fears, the farthest boundaries of our imaginations. We go there because we can; we come back because we must. What we see there becomes our tales.","author":"Patricia A. McKillip","tags":["dragons","dreams","fairyland","fantasy","mermaids"],"id":143356,"author_id":"Patricia+A.+McKillip"},{"text":"...That once were urgent and necessary for an orderly world and now were buried away, gathering dust and of no use to anyone.","author":"Patricia A. McKillip","tags":["books","clutter","dust","order"],"id":188200,"author_id":"Patricia+A.+McKillip"},{"text":"I wish you were small again, so I could hold you in my arms and comfort you. But you are grown, and you know that for some things there is no comfort.","author":"Patricia A. McKillip","tags":["comfort","knowledge","protection"],"id":199523,"author_id":"Patricia+A.+McKillip"},{"text":"I did not want to think about people. I wanted the trees, the scents and colors, the shifting shadows of the wood, which spoke 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.","author":"Patricia A. McKillip","tags":["folklore","forest","fox","myth","nature","woods"],"id":239133,"author_id":"Patricia+A.+McKillip"},{"text":"The odd thing about people who had many books was how they always wanted more.","author":"Patricia A. McKillip","tags":["bibliophiles","book-lovers","books","readers","reading"],"id":271693,"author_id":"Patricia+A.+McKillip"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":26,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}