Kathleen O'Neal Gear Quotes & Sayings

Life moved, as inconstant and fickle as Wind Baby, frolicking, sleeping, weeping, but never truly still. Never solid or finished. Always like water flowing from one place to the next. Seed and fruit. Rain and drought, everything traveled in a gigantic circle, an eternal process of becoming something new. But we rarely saw it. Humans tended to see only frozen moments, not the flow of things. — Kathleen O'Neal Gear

Only a fool would cross a night traveler. — Kathleen O'Neal Gear

My girl, there are three kinds of people in the world: the outstanding, the mediocre, and the truly hopeless. — Kathleen O'Neal Gear

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, — Kathleen O'Neal Gear

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. — Kathleen O'Neal Gear

What kind of incompetence is this, leaving dangerous fiends like us alone to commit mischief? — Kathleen O'Neal Gear