181 Quotes by Katherine Arden

Am I a child? Always someone else must decide for me. But this I will decide for myself.

Think of me sometimes,” he returned. “When the snowdrops have bloomed and the snow has melted.

What name would encompass a creature like her?

The flagon indeed contained mead: thin and strong and somehow piercing, like winter sunshine.

That love of maidens for monsters, that does not fade with time.” He looked weary. “But the rest – I did not count on that.

Vasya felt cold despite the steam. “Why would I choose to die?” “It is easy to die,” replied the bannik. “Harder to live.

You can’t hide in your books forever. There are all kinds of people, and good things, and life, just waiting for you.

But he shook her, lifted her chin so that she had to meet his eyes again, spoke into her ear, the voice of winter in this airless cellar, reminding her of her joys and her mistakes, her loves and her flaws, until she found herself back in her own skin, shaken but able to think. She realized how close she had come, in that dark treasure-room, with reality collapsing like a rotten tree, to going mad.

He is full of desire. Desire and fear. He does not know what he desires, and he does not admit his fear. But he feels both, strong enough to strangle.