181 Quotes by Katherine Arden

Nothing changes... Things are, or they are not. Magic is forgetting that something ever was other than as you willed it.

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?

And yet, I will think of the future," Vasya retorted. "To remind me that the present is not forever. One day I may see my brother Alyosha again, and my sister Irina. I might have a home of my own, a place and a purpose, a victory. What is the present without the future?

I want freedom," she said at the length, almost to herself. "But I also want a place and a purpose. I am not sure I can have either, let alone both. And I do not want to live a lie.

You might get to know characters in books, Ollie thought, but getting to know a human was an entirely different thing.

It will be dark in a few hours. Ghosts are stronger in the dark.

Witch. The word drifted across his mind. We call such women so, because we have no other name.

East of the sun, west of the moon," said Morozko. "Beyond the next tree.

Stand aside," said the Bear. "I will have the old witch's children."Pyotr deliberately stepped forward. "I know no witches. These are my children.