Ann Marie

“That way lay madness: hiding from the worst parts of her own nature until, out of sight, they became monstrous growths to devour the rest of her.”
― Katherine Arden, The Winter of the Witch

“Things are or they are not, Vasya,” he interrupted. “If you want something, it means you do not have it, it means that you do not believe it is there, which means it will never be there. The fire is or it is not. That which you call magic is simply not allowing the world to be other than as you will it.”
― Katherine Arden, The Girl in the Tower

“Naturally. Only boys and fools think men are first in courage. We do not bear children.”
― Katherine Arden, The Girl in the Tower

“She was more feminine than she had ever been, and less. Witch. The word drifted across his mind. We call such women so, because we have no other name.”
― Katherine Arden, The Girl in the Tower