“The man who knelt before her would have sprung from her needles, even down the ghostly flecks of silver in his hair. She had not known before that she wanted all these things, that she preferred dark hair and a slightly cruel expression, that she wishes for tallness, or that a man kneeling might thrill her.”
― Deathless
― Deathless
“every person is a story and therefore is a storyteller. Trouble is that many fear failure, so they never begin.”
― Eve
― Eve
“Remember this when you are queen,” he whispered hoarsely. “I moved the earth and the water for you.”
― Deathless
― Deathless
“Still, she was not sorry. If the world is divided into seeing and not seeing, Marya thought, I shall always choose to see.”
― Deathless
― Deathless
“When I say forever,' Koschei whispered, 'I mean until the black death of the world. An Ivan means just the present moment, the flickering light of it, in a green field, his mouth on yours. He means the stretching of that moment. But forever isn't bright; it isn't like that. Forever is cold and hard and final.”
― Deathless
― Deathless
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