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“All gods who receive homage are cruel. All gods dispense suffering without reason. Otherwise they would not be worshipped. Through indiscriminate suffering men know fear and fear is the most divine emotion. It is the stones for altars and the beginning of wisdom. Half gods are worshipped in wine and flowers. Real gods require blood.”
― Their Eyes Were Watching God
― Their Eyes Were Watching God
“It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.”
― Their Eyes Were Watching God
― Their Eyes Were Watching God
“And then the night seemed to reach out and catch him up, fold him inside itself, so that there was only the dark where he had been.”
― The Bear and the Nightingale
― The Bear and the Nightingale
“My dreams, my dreams! What has become of their sweetness? What indeed has become of my youth?”
― Eugene Onegin
― Eugene Onegin
“Morozko was there, between one blink and the next. She hadn't put the men to sleep. He had. He was there, himself, real, in the treasure-room with her.
Now the winter-king was turning pale eyes on her. She stared. It was really him. Pulled to her, somehow, as she remembered his power. As though drawing him to her was easier than calling down sleep herself.
Summoned. She'd summoned the winter-king like a stray spirit.
The both realized it at the same time. The shock in his face mirrored the feeling in hers.
For an instant, they were silent.
Then he spoke. "A thunderstorm, Vasya?" he said, with effort.”
― The Winter of the Witch
Now the winter-king was turning pale eyes on her. She stared. It was really him. Pulled to her, somehow, as she remembered his power. As though drawing him to her was easier than calling down sleep herself.
Summoned. She'd summoned the winter-king like a stray spirit.
The both realized it at the same time. The shock in his face mirrored the feeling in hers.
For an instant, they were silent.
Then he spoke. "A thunderstorm, Vasya?" he said, with effort.”
― The Winter of the Witch
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