Celia Rees quotes:

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

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.

Lies are not rooted in the mind in the way truth is.

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

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

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

Those that can heal can harm; those that can cure can kill.

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.

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.