“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
“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
“There are no monsters in the world, and no saints. Only infinite shades woven into the same tapestry, light and dark. One man’s monster is another man’s beloved. The wise know that.”
― The Winter of the Witch
― The Winter of the Witch
“As I could, I loved you.”
― The Winter of the Witch
― The Winter of the Witch
“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.”
― The Winter of the Witch
― The Winter of the Witch
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