“Now hear me. Before the end, you will pluck snowdrops at midwinter, die by your own choosing, and weep for a nightingale.”
― The Bear and the Nightingale
― The Bear and the Nightingale
“Witch. The word drifted across his mind. We call such women so, because we have no other name.”
― The Girl in the Tower
― The Girl in the Tower
“As I could, I loved you.”
― The Winter of the Witch
― The Winter of the Witch
“All my life,” she said, “I have been told ‘go’ and ‘come.’ I am told how I will live, and I am told how I must die. I must be a man’s servant and a mare for his pleasure, or I must hide myself behind walls and surrender my flesh to a cold, silent god. 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. Please. Please let me help you.”
― The Bear and the Nightingale
― The Bear and the Nightingale
“I have plucked snowdrops at Midwinter, died at my own choosing, and wept for a nightingale. Now I am beyond prophecy.”
― The Winter of the Witch
― The Winter of the Witch
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