The Ropemaker Quotes

"For all I know your father thinks it's more than hard on you, being cut out by Anja, but they've known the reason. Supposing it was for something they'd grown up not believing in, couldn't bring t...

There's no magic in the Valley. It's all been taken away, and used to keep us safe. No magic in people's minds, either—you heard 'em yesterday—they'd no idea what Alnor and me were talking abou...

"Nothing. Only you can hear what the cedars say. I can't. And you know the way to the lake. Not me. And one day it'll be you singing to the cedars, like Ma does. Not me." (2.40).

Tilja thought about Woodbourne, trying to imagine, detail by detail, what her family might be doing at each moment. She wondered if they were missing her. Did it feel very strange without her? (6.1)

"But all of those who have the gift, as you seem to, even if they do not practice themselves, can tell when they are in the presence of magic, unless the magician is already powerful enough to set...

The cheese Salata made and the kids she reared to send to market were the interest she was still paying on that debt, fixed so that it could never be paid off. And under that ancient contract neith...

"Southeast, roughly," said Lananeth. "That way lies Talagh. You said you would look for him there. And you think he still lives—the same man that gave the peach nineteen generations back?""So the...

She started up it, and soon found herself wondering whether there wasn't a stair because it was not in the nature of the cliff to carve itself so, but it was doing what it could to help, all the sa...

She walked to her left and found a gate, opened it and went through, closing it carefully behoid her because she could see that wall and gate were there to keep the rabbits out. This vaguely surpri...

The sense of immense, strange power controlled and leashed by her hands and then laid to sleep once more against her arm was something like the feeling she had after a good day on the farm, work th...