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“Here in Raine, I can walk with the sunlight on my face. I can speak to anyone who speaks to me. I can learn my daughter's language. I can be called the name I was given when I was born.
Here I am no longer my own secret.
Will you let me stay?”
― Patricia A. McKillip, Alphabet of Thorn

“Do you become in visible?'
'No. I'm there, if you know how to look. I stand between the place you look at and the place you see. Behind what you expect to see. If you expect to see me, you do. I listen in places where no one expects me to be.”
― Patricia A. McKillip, Alphabet of Thorn

“What are the thorns really telling her? It's why she won't let us see them, why she clings to them--or they cling to her--as though she got herself buried in a bramble thicket and she can't get out and we can't get in to free her.”
― Patricia A. McKillip, Alphabet of Thorn

“The message, which one fall or another of the coin would eventually give him, was how to get himself out of his chamber and into Nepenthe's, so that he could tell her why he had not come to tell her why he had not come.”
― Patricia A. McKillip, Alphabet of Thorn

“Once I used my powers. Now I feel like a dancing instructor, reminding the queen whom she is dancing with at this hour and with which foot she should begin.'
'Be thankful,' Gavin advised with a laugh, 'that so far the music is still being played and everyone is trying to dance in harmony.”
― Patricia A. McKillip, Alphabet of Thorn

“That's the beginning of magic. Let your imagination run and follow it.”
― Patricia A. McKillip, Alphabet of Thorn

“Come on," I said. "I've got some questions for Thoth. And then I'm going to punch him in the beak.”
― Rick Riordan, The Red Pyramid

“So you can't live in Manhattan?' she asked.
Amos's brow furrowed as he looked across at the Empire State Building. 'Manhattan has other problems. Other gods. It's best we stay separate.”
― Rick Riordan