Patricia A. McKillip - The Forgotten Beasts of Eld (1974)

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I thought of you with your hair silver as snow all through that cold, slow journey from Sirle. I felt you troubled deep within me, and there was no other place in the world I would rather have been than in the cold night riding to you. When you opened your gates to me, I was home.

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The Riddle Master himself lost the key to his own riddles one day, he said in his deep, reed-pure voice, and he found it again at the bottom of his heart.

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I do not want to choose which one of you I must love or hate. Here, I am free to do neither. I want no part of your bitterness.

Patricia A. McKillip
What concern of mine are your affairs? Or Coren's? What kind of peace would there be in me or in my house if I took interest in the wars and feuds that you weave in the courts below? I do not understand such things. I understand only what lies within my walls.

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The small red eyes regarded him, unblinking. What would you give me for all the wisdom of the world?
Nothing. He turned back to his work. I have heard you know the answers to every riddle save one. That will be the one I need answering.

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He was silent a moment, struggling. He said finally, But you had a right to be angry.
Yes. But not to hurt those I love, or myself.

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Only yesterday a young woman came to me wanting a trap set for a man with a sweet smile and lithe arms. She was a fool, not for wanting him, but for wanting more of him than that.

Patricia A. McKillip
Wisdom never learned silence, and it is most annoying when least wanted.

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