The Winter of the Witch (Winternight Trilogy, #3)

by Katherine Arden

“I have said you are not alone, Vasya, and I meant it,” he said. But he sounded unhappy. She managed the ghost of a smile. “You are not alone either. By all means, let us continue repeating it until one of us believes it.”

“If you spend all your days bearing the burden of unforgotten wrongs you will only wound yourself.”

That way lay madness: hiding from the worst parts of her own nature until, out of sight, they became monstrous growths to devour the rest of her.