Quotes from The Forgotten Beasts of Eld

“The man was hit in one eye by a stone, and that eye turned inward so that it looked into his mind, and he died of what he saw there”
― Patricia A. McKillip, quote from The Forgotten Beasts of Eld

“What do you think love is- a thing to startle from the heart like a bird at every shout or blow? You can fly from me, high as you choose into your darkness, but you will see me always beneath you, no matter how far away, with my face turned to you. My heart is in your heart. I gave it to you with my name that night and you are its guardian, to treasure it, or let it whither and die. I do not understand you. I am angry with you. I am hurt and helpless, but nothing will fill the ache of the hollowness in me where your name would echo if I lost you.”
― Patricia A. McKillip, quote from The Forgotten Beasts of Eld

“I thought of you with your hair silver as snow all through that cold, slow journey from Sirle. I felt you troubled deep within me, and there was no other place in the world I would rather have been than in the cold night riding to you. When you opened your gates to me, I was home.”
― Patricia A. McKillip, quote from The Forgotten Beasts of Eld

“Shall I add a man to my collection?”
― Patricia A. McKillip, quote from 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.”
― Patricia A. McKillip, quote from The Forgotten Beasts of Eld

“The giant Grof was hit in one eye by a stone, and that eye turned inward so that it looked into his mind, and he died of what he saw there. -Cyrin”
― Patricia A. McKillip, quote from The Forgotten Beasts of Eld

“A net of words, he said at last, is more powerful than a net of rope.”
― Patricia A. McKillip, quote from The Forgotten Beasts of Eld

“You--cannot ever be certain of those you love--that they will not hurt you, even loving you. But to make me certain to love you, will be to take away any love I might give you freely.”
― Patricia A. McKillip, quote from The Forgotten Beasts of Eld

“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.”
― Patricia A. McKillip, quote from The Forgotten Beasts of Eld

“I need you to forgive me. And then perhaps I can begin to forgive myself. There is no one but you who can do that either.”
― Patricia A. McKillip, quote from The Forgotten Beasts of Eld

“He ran from her suddenly, swift and quiet like a mountain cat among the high peeks of Eld mountain. She watched him dive in among the trees, and the autumn winds shoke suddenly at his heels. She sad down on a fallen trunk and dropped her head among the knees. A great soft warmth shiled her from the wind, and she looked up and saw into Gules Lyons quiet, golden eyes.
What is it, white one?
She knelt suddenly and flung his arms around the great mane, and burried her face against him.
I wish that I had wings and could fly and fly and never come back.
What has troubled you, Orams powerful child? What can trouble you? What can such a small one as Coren of Sirle say to touch you?
For a long moment she did not answer. And then she said, her fingers tight around the gold tangeled fur.
He has taken my heart and offered it back to me. And I thought he was harmless.”
― Patricia A. McKillip, quote from The Forgotten Beasts of Eld

“Oh...if you were older...It is not a bad thing, itself, but it is a bad thing to be used by men, to have them choose what you must be, and what you must not be, to have little choice in your life. If you were older, you could choose your own way.”
― Patricia A. McKillip, quote from The Forgotten Beasts of Eld

“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.”
― Patricia A. McKillip, quote from The Forgotten Beasts of Eld

“Sybel, you went from me like a dream, so silently, so irrevocably—I could not bear it, I could not bear it—”
― Patricia A. McKillip, quote from The Forgotten Beasts of Eld

“satisfy me, and it is purposeless involving him in mine. I want—”
― Patricia A. McKillip, quote from The Forgotten Beasts of Eld

“Coren’s arms tightened around the child. “It is Norrel’s son—it is not an animal.”
― Patricia A. McKillip, quote from The Forgotten Beasts of Eld

“The giant Grof was hit in one eye by a stone, and that eye turned inward so that it looked into his mind and he died of what he saw there.”
― Patricia A. McKillip, quote from 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.”
― Patricia A. McKillip, quote from The Forgotten Beasts of Eld

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