Vasya Quotes

#1. It was never your task to pick out the good from the wicked. Your task was to unite us. We are one people." The rage was gone from her face.
Vasya stalked forward. "You could have told me" [...] "It is not something you can be told," said Polunochnitsa."It is something you must come to understand. #Quote by Katherine Arden

#2. Not of the priest, and not of the devils, nor of the pits of fire. She had seen their devils. She saw them every day. Some were wicked, and some were kind, and some were mischievous. All were as human in their way as the folk they guarded. No, Vasya was frightened of her own people. They did not joke on the way to church anymore. #Quote by Katherine Arden

#3. Come in, Vasya,' he said. 'It is cold.' Could the snow-laden night speak, it might have spoken with that voice. #Quote by Katherine Arden

#4. Konstantin stared, but Vasya could not tell what he was looking at. Perhaps he was seeing the face above him: a creature he loved and reviled as he loved and reviled himself.

Perhaps he was only seeing a starlit wood, and a road that had no turning.

Perhaps there was peace for him, there at the end. #Quote by Katherine Arden

#5. 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. #Quote by Katherine Arden

#6. Sleep is cousin to death, Vasya. And both are mine. #Quote by Katherine Arden

#7. It held clothing: a wolfskin cloak. Vasya stared down at these things with a delight she had never felt for the gold or gems of her dowry. They belonged to someone else, someone more capable and strange. #Quote by Katherine Arden

#8. I don't feel like a traveler now," Vasya admitted, low, to Morozko .

"Neither do travelers, often enough," the frost-demon returned. #Quote by Katherine Arden

#9. 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. #Quote by Katherine Arden

#10. I gave everything for you, Vasilisa Petrovna.'
'Not everything,' said Vasya. 'Since clearly your pride is intact, as well as your illusions. #Quote by Katherine Arden

#11. You were such a sweet child, when I first met you by this very tree," remarked the Bear. "What happened?" His voice was mocking, but she could feel the tension in him when she began to undo the golden clasps.
"What happened? Love, betrayal, and time," said Vasya. "What happens to anyone who grows to understand you, Medved? Living happens. #Quote by Katherine Arden

#12. I did not know I was to be outdone by a little magic boy and his tricks," he said. "I salute you, magician." He swept her a bow from horseback.

Vasya did not return the bow. "To small minds," she told him, spine very straight, "any skill must look like sorcery. #Quote by Katherine Arden

#13. Clotilde stammered. "Why didn't you hang yourself? You were just saying that art is eternal. I destroyed your eternal art. Why are you still alive, man?"
"What's eternal is eternal, but I still have to get my commissions done on time," said Vasya. "What did you think?"
Vasya was just an everyday hack sculptor of average talent. And Clothilde was reading too much Schiller. #Quote by Ilya Ilf

#14. Nothing changes, Vasya. Things are, or they are not. Magic is forgetting that something ever was other than as you willed it. #Quote by Katherine Arden

#15. 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. #Quote by Katherine Arden

#16. 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? #Quote by Katherine Arden

#17. You are mad, Vasya."
She laughed, but the tears blurred her sight. "Entirely," she said. "But I will have my freedom, Alyosha. #Quote by Katherine Arden

#18. Sometimes the travelers were wise enough to put their clothes on backward for protection - but not often; they mostly died. Vasya #Quote by Katherine Arden

#19. Sleep is cousin to death, Vasya," he murmured over her head. "And both are mine. #Quote by Katherine Arden

#20. Morozko was there, between one blink and the next. She hadn't put the men to sleep. He had. He was there, himself, real, in the treasure-room with her.

Now the winter-king was turning pale eyes on her. She stared. It was really him. Pulled to her, somehow, as she remembered his power. As though drawing him to her was easier than calling down sleep herself.

Summoned. She'd summoned the winter-king like a stray spirit.

The both realized it at the same time. The shock in his face mirrored the feeling in hers.

For an instant, they were silent.

Then he spoke. "A thunderstorm, Vasya?" he said, with effort. #Quote by Katherine Arden

#21. The door opened. 'Come in Vasya,' Morozko said. 'It is cold. #Quote by Katherine Arden

#22. Men are also wicked," Vasya returned passionately. "And good, and everything in between. Chyerti are, just as men are, just as the earth herself is. Chyerti are sometimes wise and sometimes foolish, sometimes good and sometimes cruel. God rules the next world, but what of this one? Men may seek salvation in heaven and also make offerings to their hearth-spirits, to keep their house safe from evil. Did not God make chyerti, as He made everything else in heaven and earth? #Quote by Katherine Arden