“I would walk into the jaws of hell itself, if it were a path of my own choosing. I would rather die tomorrow in the forest than live a hundred years of the life appointed me.”
― The Bear and the Nightingale
― The Bear and the Nightingale
“Vasya felt cold despite the steam. “Why would I choose to die?” “It is easy to die,” replied the bannik. “Harder to live.”
― The Bear and the Nightingale
― The Bear and the Nightingale
“How could I ever leave him, having experienced that kind of love? I will never, ever, leave him.”
― The Travelling Cat Chronicles
― The Travelling Cat Chronicles
“You did not let me keep my name, so I will strip you of yours. In this world you are what I say you are, and I say you are a ghost, a long night's fever dream that I have finally woken up from. I say you are the smoke-wisp memory of a flame, thawing ice suffering under an early spring sun, a chalk ledger of depts being wiped clean. I say you do not have a name.”
― A Dowry of Blood
― A Dowry of Blood
“You could have kissed me or slit my throat and either would have made as much sense.”
― A Dowry of Blood
― A Dowry of Blood
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