Edith Pattou is the author of several fantasy novels, including East, an ALA Top Ten Best Book for Young Adults. She is a graduate of the Francis W. Parker School, Scripps College (B.A., English), Claremont Graduate School (M.A., English) and UCLA (M.L.I.S.). She is married to Charles Emery, a professor of psychology at The Ohio State University. They have one child, a daughter.
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“The joy I feel is immense; it burns inside me as though I have swallowed a piece of the sun.”
“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.”
“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.”
“A pine needle fell in the forest. The hawk saw it. The deer heard it. The white bear smelled it”
“That indeed would be a great accolade," Monodonock stuttered, his hands frenziedly plucking at his spikey hair, "but the more I think on it, I believe I should miss my little home in the Blue Stack Mountains too much. And indeed, it is an important posting; you never know when the gabha might start stiring up trouble again...”
“And telling a story, I suppose, is like winding a skein of spun yarn- you sometimes lose track of the beginning.”
“That's the trouble with loving a wild thing: You're always left watching the door.”
“East of the sun and west of the moon.”