“ She was dry. She was lying on something soft. She was wrapped in quilts. There was a star of light drifting above her, and a smell like a herb garden. Taggle was a long warmth stretched out at one sid… Erin Bow
“ It's true that when you read YA you rarely have to read about middle-aged men having affairs. Personally I consider that a plus. Erin Bow
“ No writing is wasted. Did you know that sourdough from San Francisco is leavened partly by a bacteria called lactobacillus sanfrancisensis? It is native to the soil there, and does not do well elsewhe… Erin Bow
“ I wished for impossible things. It was never going to have been a fairy tale for us. There are no fairy tales about two princesses. Erin Bow
“ Her father sat her down and spoke to her with great seriousness. "You are not a witch, Katerina. There is magic in the world, and some of it is wholesome, and some of it is not, but it is a thing that… Erin Bow
“ Kate faced the crowd. They were just eyes and teeth to her, just spit and voices. It was a moment, even, before they became people: a man with one blind eye, another whose neck was thick with lumps an… Erin Bow
“ Your shadow is bought and paid for, and your death will not remit that payment. You can go shadowless into the shadowless world, and your death will only be one last dark thing on my long dark road. I… Erin Bow
“ You made tools of us. Have you never considered: the thing of a tool is that anyone may use it. Erin Bow
“ Fantasy elevates ordinary and eternal problems of young people into stories via the language of myth. It turns “No one really knows me” into “I’ve got a secret identity.” It turns “I don’t understand… Erin Bow
“ Behjet eased the horse forward again. "The harvest is failing. There will be no crop at all if this rain doesn't stop - not even hay."The rain. The rain she'd been so grateful for, the rain that conce… Erin Bow
“ Well. I am not afraid. But to protect you, Katerina, I will be discreet." Plain Kate considered a cat's idea of discretion, and was frightened. Erin Bow
“ And suddenly, in the place of the woman-shape made of shadow, there was something else. Something huge, something ugly. Linay flung up both hands. The thing screamed like a hawk and opened to wings: o… Erin Bow
“ The night was white-blind with fog, and Kate staggered over every stone and stumbled in every puddle, but she pushed on as fast as she could. Erin Bow
“ They hurried when they could, and dozed when they had to, hiding in tangles of bloodtwig and heartsease at the edge of the road. Erin Bow
“ Taggle was absorbed in the meat pie. ‘It’s covered in BREAD,’ he huffed. ‘What fool has covered MEAT with BREAD? Erin Bow
