181 Quotes by Katherine Arden

You know nothing of this world, and now you mean to go out and die in it?

I don’t feel like a traveler now,” Vasya admitted, low, to Morozko . “Neither do travelers, often enough,” the frost-demon returned.

Go out into the world, traveler. See what the long nights and hard days feel like, after a week of them.”“Perhaps I will like them,” Vasya retorted, with spirit. “I sincerely hope not.

Solovey will take me to the ends of the earth if I ask it. I am going into the world, Alyosha. I will be no one's bride, neither of man nor of God. I am going to Kiev and Sarai and Tsargrad, and I will look upon the sun on the sea.

I did not know I was lonely, she thought, until I was no longer alone.

Every time you take one path, you must live with the memory of the other: of a life left unchosen.

There is no such thing as magic.” “But you just—”“Things are or they are not, Vasya,” he interrupted. “If you want something, it means you do not have it, it means that you do not believe it is there, which means it will never be there. The fire is or it is not . That which you call magic is simply not allowing the world to be other than as you will it.

I must be old, Pyotr thought to himself, if my son is being kind to me.

You are not alone either. By all means, let us continue repeating it until one of us believes it.