Celia Rees Quotes

United Kingdom, Author
June 17, 1949

Celia Rees is an English author. Celia Rees was born in Solihull, West Midlands and attended Tudor Grange Grammar School for Girls. She studied History and Politics at Warwick University and has a PGCE and a master's degree in Education from Birmingham University.

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

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

Celia Rees
- Fine
- Witch
- Nine

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.

Celia Rees
- Fall
- Water
- Heaven
Those that can heal can harm; those that can cure can kill.

Celia Rees
- Heal
- Harm
- Cures
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.

Celia Rees
- Heaven
- Hands
- Force
Legend gathered around him, swirling around him like a great black cloak.

Celia Rees
- Black
- Legends
- Cloaks
Don't fear tomorrow, till today's done with you.

Celia Rees
- Today
- Tomorrow
Lies are not rooted in the mind in the way truth is.

Celia Rees
- Mind
- Lying

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.

Celia Rees
- Wish
- Luck
- Curse