181 Quotes by Katherine Arden

It is a cruel task, to frighten people in God’s name.

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?

Cabbage, Konstantin noted with disgust. He was mortally weary of cabbage.

I believe in memory. I believe in remembering someone you love so well that it becomes kind of like a ghost. You remember someone so hard that it feels like they’re in the next room, just around the corner, that they could walk in any minute.

The living need you more than the dead. And they are harder to comfort.

Wild birds die in cages.

Married! Not to retreat, but to be the mistress of a lord’s domain; not to be safe in a convent, but to live as some lord’s breeding sow.

The more one knows, the sooner one grows old,” snapped the domovaya.

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?