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“All my life,” she said, “I have been told ‘go’ and ‘come.’ I am told how I will live, and I am told how I must die. I must be a man’s servant and a mare for his pleasure, or I must hide myself behind walls and surrender my flesh to a cold, silent god. I would walk into the jaws of hell itself, if it were a path of my own choosing. I would rather die tomorrow in the forest than live a hundred years of the life appointed me. Please. Please let me help you.”
― Katherine Arden, The Bear and the Nightingale

“There was a time, not long ago
When flowers grew all year
When days were long
And nights star-strewn
And men lived free from fear”
― Katherine Arden, The Bear and the Nightingale

“The world is wide, and the road will take us anywhere.”
― Katherine Arden, The Bear and the Nightingale

“As I saw them with eyes that mirrored their beginnings and features and skins that seemed to change on a whim, I heard their names whispered through all the realms, through all time. Gods. Benevolent guardians. Wrathful prosecutors. The watchers of man. Elementals. The Fair Folk. Fates. The first gods. The Great Creators. The Ancient Ones.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, The Primal of Blood and Bone