Plain Kate
Erin Bow
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Hope will break the heart better than any sorrow.”
“At night the fog was thick and full of light, and sometimes voices.”
“I have business to conduct in the language of fur and claw.”
“Taggle was absorbed in the meat pie. ‘It’s covered in BREAD,’ he huffed. ‘What fool has covered MEAT with BREAD?”
“They're gone. I let them chase me. I led them like a sunbeam and vanished like a shadow.”
“Often she dreamt she had two wings, and one was frightened, and one was happy.”
“And then because hope will break the heart better than any sorrow, she started to cry.”
“Her father sat her down and spoke to her with great seriousness. "You are not a witch, Katerina. There is magic in the world, and some of it is wholesome, and some of it is not, but it is a thing that is in the blood, and it is not in yours. "The foolish will always treat you badly, because they think you are not beautiful," he said, and she knew this was true. Plain Kate. She was a plain as a stick and thin as a stick and flat as a stick. Her nose was too long and her brows too strong. Her father kissed her twice, once above each brow. "We cannot help what fools think. But understand, it is your skill with a blade that draws this talk. If you want to give up your carving, you have my blessing." "I will never give it up," she answered.”
“Be brave. Things will find their shape.”
“I am not sure I can." "Become sure," said the cat, his eyes flashing green in the firelight. "Once you leap on a boar's back, you can't sheath your claws.”
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