Ann Marie

“Mornings are wiser than evenings.”
― Katherine Arden, The Girl in the Tower

“But nothing is ever equal with humans, really—we give and we take, the scales ever tipping. That’s just the way of it. I am what he has, and he is what I have—there’s no point keeping score.”
― A.B. Poranek, Where the Dark Stands Still

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

“Liska realizes, in that moment, that she has misjudged herself. Through the Leszy’s eyes, she has seen something in herself that she could have never believed otherwise: strength, tenacity, kindness. In his eyes, she is ever-changing, different with every dawn but no less sincere. She is not defined by her magic, for better or for worse. She does not need to prove herself to him or to anyone else. She is simply… enough. She has always been enough. It is this discovery, more than anything, that brings Liska to life.”
― A.B. Poranek, Where the Dark Stands Still