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“Olga smiled a little. Vasya remembered that years before, her sister had been a girl who had dreamed of love and raven-princes. Olga had laid aside the dream, as women must. Perhaps she did not regret it. For the raven-prince was strange and secret; he would draw you out into a dangerous world.”

Love Beautiful Magical Morozko Vasya Chyerti

Book:The Winter of the Witch

Source: The Winter of the Witch

“And yet, I will think of the future," Vasya retorted. "To remind me that the present is not forever. One day I may see my brother Alyosha again, and my sister Irina. I might have a home of my own, a place and a purpose, a victory. What is the present without the future?”

Beautiful Fantasy Winter Magical Morozko Vasya

Book:The Winter of the Witch

Source: The Winter of the Witch

“I want Dmitrii's admiration. I want a victory. I even want power, over princes and chyerti. I am allowed to want things, winter-king.”

Fantasy Russia Russian Folklore Russian Fairy Tales Vasilisa Morozko Vasya

Book:The Winter of the Witch

Source: The Winter of the Witch

“But Vasya never saw them when she was looking for them. They moved between one breath and the next, between one blink and another."- The Girl in the Tower”

Fiction Fantasy Winter Folklore Spirits Fiction Fantasy Russian Fairy Tales Morozko Vasya The Girl In The Tower

Author:Katherine Arden

“Sasha, studying her, surprised himself by saying, "You look just like our mother." Her eyes opened at that; sudden pleasure drove away the shadows in her face. He said, smiling, "Our mother always put bread in the oven at night. For the domovoi.”

Sasha Vasya Vasilisa Petrovna Aleksandr Peresvet Aleksandr Petrovich

Book:The Winter of the Witch

Source: The Winter of the Witch

“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.”

Morozko Vasya Vasilisa Petrovna Winter King

Book:The Winter of the Witch

Source: The Winter of the Witch

“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?”

Magic Prison Folklore Russian Vasilisa Morozko Vasya Katherine Arden The Winter Of The Witch Winternight

Book:The Winter of the Witch

Source: The Winter of the Witch

“He" —she stumbled, finished—"He has been a joy to me." And, drily, "Also a great source of frustration.”

Morozko Vasya Vasilisa Petrovna Winter King Olga Vladimirovna Olya

Book:The Winter of the Witch

Source: The Winter of the Witch

“Come in, Vasya,' he said. 'It is cold.' Could the snow-laden night speak, it might have spoken with that voice.”

Magic Fairy Tales For Adults Morozko Vasya Winternight

Book:The Girl in the Tower

Source: The Girl in the Tower

“Morozko shot the fire a glance and it leaped up, roaring. Vasya gratefully sank down onto her heap of boughs and warmed her hands. "Will you teach me to do magic, too?" she asked him. "To make fire with my eyes?" The fire flared sudden and harsh on the bones of Morozko's face. "There is no such things as magic" "But you just —" "Things are or they are not, Vasya," he interrupted. "If you want something, it means you do not have it, it means you do not believe it is there, which means that it will never be there. The fire is or it is not. That which you call magic is simply not allowing the world to be other than as you will it.”

Magic Morozko Vasya The Meaning Of Magic

Book:The Girl in the Tower

Source: The Girl in the Tower

“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.”

Russia Bear Russian Folklore Vasya The Winter Of The Witch

Book:The Winter of the Witch

Source: The Winter of the Witch