The Winter of the Witch
Katherine Arden
Top 10 Best Quotes
“There are no monsters in the world, and no saints. Only infinite shades woven into the same tapestry, light and dark. One man’s monster is another man’s beloved. The wise know that.”
“As I could, I loved you.”
“I have plucked snowdrops at Midwinter, died at my own choosing, and wept for a nightingale. Now I am beyond prophecy.”
“Love is for those who know the griefs of time, for it goes hand in hand with loss. An eternity, so burdened, would be a torment. And yet—” He broke off, drew breath. “Yet what else to call it, this terror and this joy?”
“She bent forward to breathe into his ear: "Never give me orders." "Command me, then," he whispered back. The words went through her like wine.”
“Magic is forgetting the world was ever other than as you willed it.”
“It is not for men and women to presume what the Lord wishes. That way lies evil, when men put themselves too high, saying, I know what God wants, for it is also what I want.”
“If I wanted to imprison someone until the end of days, would it not be best to use a prison that he has no desire to escape?”
“If you spend all your days bearing the burden of unforgotten wrongs you will only wound yourself.”
“Who is to say, in the end, that the three guardians of Russia are not a witch, a frost-demon, and a chaos-spirit? I find it fitting.”
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