Quotes from book
Winter Rose

Winter Rose is a 1996 fantasy novel by American writer Patricia A. McKillip. It was nominated for the 1996 Nebula Award and 1997 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel, and was a finalist for the 1997 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature. In 2006, McKillip published its sequel, Solstice Wood.

“I didn’t know anymore what love meant, or why we were not all better off without it.”
Source: Winter Rose (1996), Chapter 21, p. 217.

“Perhaps there had never been anything at all to see.”
Source: Winter Rose (1996), Chapter 24, p. 250.

“Do you care for me at all? Or do you only need me?”
Source: Winter Rose (1996), Chapter 21, p. 212.