Quotes from Celia Rees

Lies are not rooted in the mind in the way truth is.

Those that can heal can harm; those that can cure can kill.

Don't fear tomorrow, till today's done with you.

In the town live witches nine: three in worsted, three in rags, and three in velvet fine...

Lies are not rooted in the mind in the way truth is.

I looked into her eyes, and saw my own staring back, the same peculiar shade, pale grey, flecked with yellow, rimmed with black. Now I knew the nature of her debt. It had weighed on her conscience for fourteen years. I was looking into the eyes of mother and I knew that I would never see her again.

It is no good wishing for what was not to be.

You may wish me luck, or curse me for a damnable pirate, but do not look for me. I will be gone to parts beyond the sea.

Daughter of the Erl King and the Elfen Queen, that's who you are.

Legend gathered around him, swirling around him like a great black cloak.

There are patterns in everything, in the whole of Nature, from the way the stars turn in the heavens to the whorl of a shell or the petals of a flower and the way leaves arrange themselves about a twig. There are forces, hidden forces. If I can discover what they are, how they operate, I will have my hands upon the levers of creation and can work them myself.

She was all that I knew, all that was dear. I'd loved her and she'd loved me. Now I was alone in the world. How would I do without her? My thoughts echoed the landlady: What would become of me?

Colored lights shone right across the northern sky, leaping and flaring, spreading in rainbow hues from horizon to zenith: blood red to rose pink, saffron yellow to delicate primrose, pale green, aquamarine to darkest indigo. Great veils of color swathed the heavens, rising and falling as light seen through cascading curtains of water. Streamers shot out in great shifting beams as if God had put his thumb across the sun.

don't fear tomorrow, 'til today's done with you.

Tenho uma doença que está além do alcance da medicina; mesmo meu bom amigo Graham não tem cura para ela. Assim que eu chegar em terra, vou querer partir de novo. Meu lar é o navio. Minha pátria é o mar.

I put my faith into stones, he smiled at me across the table. They do not rot, and they do not lose their value. They are light to carry and easy to keep close. He patted his pocket. They will never let you down.

Memory plays tricks in the night, in the dark. We imagine things not how they are, but how we want them to be.

which may probably come to pass)

It is progress." Kurt's continuing justifications filled the silence. "To eliminate weakness. To promote strength. For the greater good. Ultimately, it would have led to the improvement of the whole human race. One day the world will understand the wisdom of such actions.