Celia Rees Quotes & Sayings

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. — Celia Rees

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 Rees

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

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

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

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. — Celia Rees

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

Lies are not rooted in the mind in the way truth is. — Celia Rees

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

Those that can heal can harm; those that can cure can kill. — Celia Rees