“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“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 side, his chin in her hand, his tail curled over her neck. She thought they might be in heaven.Taggle farted.Plain Kate coughed and sneezed. And then she really was awake.”
Erin Bow“I'm not a cruel man. I mean, technically I'm not a man at all.”
Erin Bow, The Scorpion Rules“They're gone. I let them chase me. I led them like a sunbeam and vanished like a shadow.”
Erin Bow, Plain Kate“You made tools of us. Have you never considered: the thing of a tool is that anyone may use it.”
Erin Bow, The Scorpion Rules“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, The Scorpion Rules“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 concealed the warping of her shadow. It was going to kill people.”
Erin Bow, Plain Kate“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, Plain Kate“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: one white as a death cap, one clotted in shadow. The wings came together and the whole pond shuddered.Something hit Kate's ear and shoulder and smashed to the deck by her feet. It was a swallow, dead. She could hear them falling all over the pond.”
Erin Bow, Plain Kate“At night the fog was thick and full of light, and sometimes voices.”
Erin Bow, Plain Kate“Be brave. Things will find their shape.”
Erin Bow, Plain Kate