Edith Pattou Quotes

#1. Here.
After so long waiting.
Her purple eyes.
Torn cloak.
Skin pale, sheer as ice.
Exhausted.
But unafraid.

Edith Pattou

#2. A pine needle fell in the forest. The hawk saw it. The deer heard it. The white bear smelled it

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#3. I crossed the room to him. "I love you," I said in a rush, afraid I would change my mind.
"Charles," he replied.

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#4. The joy I feel is immense; it burns inside me as though I have swallowed a piece of the sun.

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#5. It is odd, the twists that life will sometimes take. The ewe that you think will give birth with ease dies bringing forth a two-headed lamb. Or the ski trail that you have been told is treacherous, you navigate easily.

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#6. That's the trouble with loving a wild thing: You're always left watching the door.

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#7. She would search for him.
In the land that lay east of the sun and west of the moon.
But there was no way there.

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#8. East of the sun and west of the moon.

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#9. Where is it?" I asked, willing him to tell me.
He laughed suddenly, and I could hear the full-throated, grating sound of the white bear's laughter in it.
"East of the sun and west of the moon," he said.

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#10. And telling a story, I suppose, is like winding a skein of spun yarn- you sometimes lose track of the beginning.

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#11. It was the difference between walking with a stranger and walking with your heartmate. It was the difference between working for duty and working for love.

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#12. I knelt by the design. Yes, there was the sun rising. But the white form I had always thought to be a cloud was a bear. I could see it now, upside down. White bear, isbjorn, stood for north. Father had not been able to help himself. The truth was there, too. Truth and lie, side by side.

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#13. They journeyed far and the white bear said, "Are you afraid?"
"No," she replied. "I am not afraid.

Edith Pattou