Jordan

“But I think you should be careful, Batyushka, that God does not speak in the voice of your own wishing. We have never needed saving before.”
― Katherine Arden, The Bear and the Nightingale

“I always wondered why the makers leave housekeeping and cooking out of their tales. Isn't it what all the great wars and battles are fought for -- so that at day's end a family may eat together in a peaceful house?”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, Voices

“Sleep is cousin to death, Vasya," he murmured over her head. "And both are mine.”
― Katherine Arden, The Bear and the Nightingale

“Blood is one thing. The sight is another. But courage—that is rarest of all, Vasilisa Petrovna.”
― Katherine Arden, The Bear and the Nightingale