“It’s not always enough to go looking for the place we belong. Sometimes we need to make that place.”
― The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches
― The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches
“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.”
― The Girl in the Tower
― The Girl in the Tower
“Nothing changes, Vasya. Things are, or they are not. Magic is forgetting that something ever was other than as you willed it.”
― The Bear and the Nightingale
― The Bear and the Nightingale
“We are stardust brought to life, then empowered by the universe to figure itself out—and we have only just begun.”
― Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
― Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
“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
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