The Wolf and the Woodsman
Ava Reid
Top 10 Best Quotes
“All that talk of quiet obedience is for their benefit, not yours. They don't have to go to the effort of striking you down if you're already on your knees.”
“If it is a choice between drowning in the same river that has dragged me down a thousand times or walking into a pit of fire that had never burned me once, I will choose the flames and learn to bear it.”
“If there is anyone I would damn my soul for,” Gáspár says, “it would be you.”
“Stories are supposed to live longer than people.”
“What would you have me do?' he asks. 'You have already ruined me.”
“I'd rather die with a blade in my hand, or at least with fire in my heart, than live as the shadow of the shadow.”
“But you followed me here.’ My own voice is a whisper. ‘What a foolish thing for a pious prince to do.’ A breath comes out of him. ‘You’ve made me a fool many times over.”
“The trees have to be tied down by sunset. When the Woodsmen come, they always try to run.”
“I remember how the fire roared to life in front of the captain, so sudden and sure. Any wolf-girl would have marveled at such a fire, easily as impressive as the work of our best fire-makers. We would have called it power, magic. They called it piety. But what is the difference, if both fires burn just as bright?”
“Stories are supposed to live longer than people, and the trull is the most ancient story of them all. Tears go running hotly down my face. Maybe killing it will save this generation of pagans, but what about the next? When the fabric of our stories thins and wears, the people will be alive, but they won’t be pagans anymore. And that, I realize, is what Virág always feared the most. Not our deaths, or even her death. She was afraid of our lives becoming our own. She was afraid of our threads snapping, of us becoming just girls, and not wolf-girls.”
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