Quotes from Kathleen O'Neal Gear

What kind of incompetence is this, leaving dangerous fiends like us alone to commit mischief?

The greatest advantage of all is that when people think you're a witch, you can eat an entire serving of squash all by yourself.

My girl, there are three kinds of people in the world: the outstanding, the mediocre, and the truly hopeless.

The dead did not call to me from the underworlds, but spoke to me from the rustling pine needles. They did not gaze down upon me from the skyworlds, but smiled up at me from a bead of dew trembling precariously upon a blade of grass. They told me I have never been alone. Not for one instant. Every soul is a thread in the fabric of the world. All I must do to see my relatives is gaze into the shining water that sleeps

For now, suffice it to say that the foundations for our modern democratic world originated, not in Europe, but in the northeastern corner of North America.

Only a fool would cross a night traveler.

You mean," Sylvia interrupted, "something that floats around aimlessly? With no mind? No purpose?" "Well. Yeah." "Wow," she said in true awe. "The stars could be filled with government employees." Dusty

Power lived everywhere, beneath cactus thorns, secreted in sparkles of dew, and hidden in the flecks of moonlight that silvered the sage. By calling upon that Power, Singers could pull clouds together and awaken the soaring