Celia Rees quotes
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“Legend gathered around him, swirling around him like a great black cloak.”
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“Don't fear tomorrow, till today's done with you.”
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“In the town live witches nine: three in worsted, three in rags, and three in velvet fine...”
-- Celia ReesSource : Celia Rees (2010). “Witch Child”, p.8, A&C Black
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“Lies are not rooted in the mind in the way truth is.”
-- Celia ReesSource : Celia Rees (2010). “Witch Child”, p.19, A&C Black
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“It is no good wishing for what was not to be.”
-- Celia ReesSource : Celia Rees (2010). “Witch Child”, p.20, A&C Black
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“Those that can heal can harm; those that can cure can kill.”
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“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.”
-- Celia ReesSource : Celia Rees (2011). “The Fool's Girl”, p.78, A&C Black
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“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.”
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“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.”
-- Celia Rees
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“I cannot be made into the commentator for the unspoken black masses.”
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“I want to emphasize the idea of black as intellectuality and conventionality.”
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“The only difference is now more young black men are in the spotlight.”
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“Oh my God, can you see me? I thought I was wearing my invisibility cloak.”
Source : Cate Tiernan (2012). “Darkness Falls (Immortal Beloved Book Two): Immortal Beloved: Book Two”, p.450, Hachette UK
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“I went to a private arts school. We had to wear cloaks.”
Source : "Escape From the '80s" by Allison Glock, GQ, December, 1997.
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“Ambition is all very well, my lad, but you must cloak it.”
Source : Jonathan Stroud (2003). “Bartimaeus Trilogy, Book One: Amulet of Samarkand, The (International Edition)”, Disney-Hyperion
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“Most forms of rage, after all, are only sloppy cloaks for grief.”
Source : Steve Almond (2004). “Candyfreak: A Journey through the Chocolate Underbelly of America”, p.198, Algonquin Books
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