Katherine Arden

"The magical adventure begun in The Bear and the Nightingale continues as brave Vasya, now a young woman, is forced to choose between marriage or life in a convent and instead flees her home--but soon finds herself called upon to help defend the city of Moscow when it comes under siege"--

The Girl in the Tower

Natasha Johnson

Mari

I’m not a morning person. This explains a lot. 

Taryn

“The more one knows, the sooner one grows old”

I did not know I was lonely, she thought, until I was no longer alone. 

“The living need you more than the dead. And they are harder to comfort.”

“You are angry and not sure who to be angry with” ~ Kasyan 

“To small minds,” she told him, spine very straight, “any skill must look like sorcery” ~ Vasya 

“Every time you take one path, you must live with the memory of the other: of a life left unchosen. Decide as seems best, one course or the other; each way will have its bitter with its sweet” ~ Morozko

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