Matildaatwar

“People kept coming up to her all day, saying, “Is it true what Nina says—you come from a broken home?”
“Broken right in half,” Polly replied to each one. “There’s a hole in the middle where the garden is. You get rained on trying togo upstairs.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Fire and Hemlock

“I have plucked snowdrops at Midwinter, died at my own choosing, and wept for a nightingale. Now I am beyond prophecy.”
― Katherine Arden, The Winter of the Witch

“She bent forward to breathe into his ear: "Never give me orders."
"Command me, then," he whispered back. The words went through her like wine.”
― Katherine Arden, The Winter of the Witch

“But yes,” he said wearily. “As I could, I loved you. Now will you go? Live.” “I, too,” she said. “In a childish way, as girls love heroes that come in the night, I loved you.”
― Katherine Arden, The Girl in the Tower