The Book of Atrix Wolfe Quotes

“There are no simple words. I don't know why I thought I could hide anything behind language.”
― Patricia A. McKillip, The Book of Atrix Wolfe

“Experience teaches us restrictions," the mage reminded him. "They are not dreamed up in some peaceful tower on a mountaintop.”
― Patricia A. McKillip, The Book of Atrix Wolfe

“There was a drop of human blood in her, and in her father . . . it brought both of them visions at times, living dreams of the world beyond the wood. Her father had learned to ignore them, for they meant nothing to him. She, still learning words for her own world, did not make such distinctions: Everything was new, everything spoke to her and had a name; she had not yet learned that something could mean nothing.”
― Patricia A. McKillip, The Book of Atrix Wolfe

“There are no simple words. I don’t know why I thought I could hide anything behind language.”
― Patricia A. McKillip, The Book of Atrix Wolfe

“She leaned back against the cupboard, gazed wearily at the hearth fires. She watched little flames spring up now and then out of the darkening embers, like ghosts, like memories of fire, until, half-dreaming, she forgot that fire had a name, and saw only bright random blossoms of color spring up, out of shimmering red and dark, flow gracefully from shape to shape, then burrow down again, hide among the rustling embers, where something restless would snap and fling a sparkling swarm of insects or stars into the air.”
― Patricia A. McKillip, The Book of Atrix Wolfe