181 Quotes by Katherine Arden

Perhaps I am not so wise as you would have me, for all my years in this world. I do not know what you should choose. 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.

She looked like a wild thing new-caught and just barely groomed into submission.

You’re kind of grumpy most of the time, but when things get bad, you’re the bravest. People can surprise you.

A woman married. Or she became a nun. Or she died. That was what being a women meant. What then, was she?

Blood is one thing. The sight is another. But courage – that is rarest of all, Vasilisa Petrovna.

You are too attached to things as they are,” said Morozko, combing the mare’s withers. He glanced down idly. “You must allow things to be what best suits your purpose. And then they will.

There was a time, not long ago When flowers grew all year When days were long And nights star-strewn And men lived free from fear.

In winter it is impossible to be still. Even sitting by the fire, one is watching the coals, stirring the soup, fighting – always fighting – the eager frost.

You cannot love and be immortal.