The Bear and the Nightingale
Katherine Arden
Top 10 Best Quotes
“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.”
“You left me this mad girl, and I love her well. She is braver and wilder than any of my sons.”
“It is time to put aside dreaming. Fairy tales are sweet on winter nights, nothing more.”
“The world is wide, and the road will take us anywhere.”
“Irina, for God’s sake, praying will not keep her warm. Make soup.”
“She is not afraid, Konstantin thought dourly. She does not fear God; she fears nothing. He saw it in her silences, her fey glance, the long hours she spent in the forest. In any case, no good Christian maid ever had eyes like that, or walked with such grace in the dark.”
“I would rather die tomorrow in the forest than live a hundred years of the life appointed me.”
“You do not know what you are; can you know what I am?”
“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”
“Konstantin had never seen Vasya so. In the house, she was grave and wary, careless and charming by turn, all eyes and bones and soundless feet. But alone, under the sky, she was beautiful as a yearling filly, or a new-flown hawk”
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