“All my life,” she said, “I have been told ‘go’ and ‘come.’ I am told how I will live, and I am told how I must die. I must be a man’s servant and a mare for his pleasure, or I must hide myself behind walls and surrender my flesh to a cold, silent god. I would walk into the jaws of hell itself, if it were a path of my own choosing. I would rather die tomorrow in the forest than live a hundred years of the life appointed me. Please. Please let me help you.”
―
Katherine Arden,
The Bear and the Nightingale
“Every time you take one path, you must live with the memory of the other: of a life left unchosen. Decide as seems best, one course or the other; each way will have its bitter with its sweet.” ― Katherine Arden, The Girl in the Tower
“Witch. The word drifted across his mind. We call such women so, because we have no other name.” ― Katherine Arden, The Girl in the Tower
“Nothing changes, Vasya. Things are, or they are not. Magic is forgetting that something ever was other than as you willed it.” ― Katherine Arden, The Bear and the Nightingale
“Wild birds die in cages.” ― Katherine Arden, The Bear and the Nightingale
“There are no monsters in the world, and no saints. Only infinite shades woven into the same tapestry, light and dark. One man’s monster is another man’s beloved. The wise know that.” ― Katherine Arden, The Winter of the Witch
“Think of me sometimes," he returned. "When the snowdrops have bloomed and the snow has melted.” ― Katherine Arden, The Girl in the Tower
“As I could, I loved you.” ― Katherine Arden, The Winter of the Witch
“I did not know I was lonely, she thought, until I was no longer alone.” ― Katherine Arden, The Girl in the Tower
“I have plucked snowdrops at Midwinter, died at my own choosing, and wept for a nightingale. Now I am beyond prophecy.” ― Katherine Arden, The Winter of the Witch
“Love is for those who know the griefs of time, for it goes hand in hand with loss. An eternity, so burdened, would be a torment. And yet—” He broke off, drew breath. “Yet what else to call it, this terror and this joy?” ― Katherine Arden, The Winter of the Witch
“It is a cruel task, to frighten people in God’s name.” ― Katherine Arden, The Bear and the Nightingale
“I carve things of wood because things made by effort are more real than things made by wishing.” ― Katherine Arden, The Girl in the Tower
“Sleep is cousin to death, Vasya. And both are mine.” ― Katherine Arden, The Bear and the Nightingale
“She bent forward to breathe into his ear: "Never give me orders.""Command me, then," he whispered back. The words went through her like wine.” ― Katherine Arden, The Winter of the Witch
“But yes,” he said wearily. “As I could, I loved you. Now will you go? Live.” “I, too,” she said. “In a childish way, as girls love heroes that come in the night, I loved you.” ― Katherine Arden, The Girl in the Tower
“I do not understand “damned.” You are. And because you are, you can walk where you will, into peace, oblivion, or pits of fire, but you will always choose.” ― Katherine Arden, The Bear and the Nightingale
“We who live forever can know no courage, nor do we love enough to give our lives.” ― Katherine Arden, The Bear and the Nightingale
“You cannot take vengeance on a whole people because of the doings of a few wicked men.” ― Katherine Arden, The Girl in the Tower
“Every time you take one path, you must live with the memory of the other: of a life left unchosen. Decide as seems best, one course or the other; each way will have its bitter with its sweet.” ― Katherine Arden, The Girl in the Tower
“Witch. The word drifted across his mind. We call such women so, because we have no other name.” ― Katherine Arden, The Girl in the Tower
“Nothing changes, Vasya. Things are, or they are not. Magic is forgetting that something ever was other than as you willed it.” ― Katherine Arden, The Bear and the Nightingale
“Wild birds die in cages.” ― Katherine Arden, The Bear and the Nightingale
“There are no monsters in the world, and no saints. Only infinite shades woven into the same tapestry, light and dark. One man’s monster is another man’s beloved. The wise know that.” ― Katherine Arden, The Winter of the Witch
“Think of me sometimes," he returned. "When the snowdrops have bloomed and the snow has melted.” ― Katherine Arden, The Girl in the Tower
“As I could, I loved you.” ― Katherine Arden, The Winter of the Witch
“I did not know I was lonely, she thought, until I was no longer alone.” ― Katherine Arden, The Girl in the Tower
“I have plucked snowdrops at Midwinter, died at my own choosing, and wept for a nightingale. Now I am beyond prophecy.” ― Katherine Arden, The Winter of the Witch
“Love is for those who know the griefs of time, for it goes hand in hand with loss. An eternity, so burdened, would be a torment. And yet—” He broke off, drew breath. “Yet what else to call it, this terror and this joy?” ― Katherine Arden, The Winter of the Witch
“It is a cruel task, to frighten people in God’s name.” ― Katherine Arden, The Bear and the Nightingale
“I carve things of wood because things made by effort are more real than things made by wishing.” ― Katherine Arden, The Girl in the Tower
“Sleep is cousin to death, Vasya. And both are mine.” ― Katherine Arden, The Bear and the Nightingale
“She bent forward to breathe into his ear: "Never give me orders.""Command me, then," he whispered back. The words went through her like wine.” ― Katherine Arden, The Winter of the Witch
“But yes,” he said wearily. “As I could, I loved you. Now will you go? Live.” “I, too,” she said. “In a childish way, as girls love heroes that come in the night, I loved you.” ― Katherine Arden, The Girl in the Tower
“I do not understand “damned.” You are. And because you are, you can walk where you will, into peace, oblivion, or pits of fire, but you will always choose.” ― Katherine Arden, The Bear and the Nightingale
“We who live forever can know no courage, nor do we love enough to give our lives.” ― Katherine Arden, The Bear and the Nightingale
“You cannot take vengeance on a whole people because of the doings of a few wicked men.” ― Katherine Arden, The Girl in the Tower
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