Kristin Cashore Quotes

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Well, none of it would ever end if she was too afraid for it to begin.

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You're crying. I'm not. Right, he said mildly. I suppose you got rained on.

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I've been afraid of being Cansrel,' she said aloud to her reflection. 'But I'm not Cansrel.' At her elbow, Musa said blandly, 'Any one of us could have told you that, Lady.' Fire looked at the captain of her guard and laughed, because she wasn't Cansrel- she wasn't anyone but herself. She had no one's path to follow; her path was her own to choose.

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But you're better than I am, Katsa. And it doesn't humiliate me. It humbles me. But it doesn't humiliate me.

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She crossed the room to him, put her arms around him, clung to him, turning her face to the side, learning all at once that it was awkward to show a person all of one's love when one's nose was broken.

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Normal. She wasn't normal. A girl Graced with killing, a royal thug? A girl who didn't want the husbands Randa pushed on her, perfectly handsome and thoughtful men, a girl who panicked at the thought of a baby at her breast, or clinging to her ankles.

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As he left to answer the call, she heard him exclaiming in wonderment on the rise. "Rocks, Nash. Is that a river mare out there? Do you see her? Have you ever laid eyes on a more gorgeous creature?

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The only way for you to keep your mind straight is to run from those who would confuse you.

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And of course she understood now why her body wanted to run whenever he appeared. It was a correct instinct, for there was nothing to be got from this but sadness.

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Hidden yourself in a hole and dared to burden no one with your grievous friendship? I will have friends, Katsa. I will have a life, even though I carry this burden.

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The more I see and hear, the more I realize how much I don't know.

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It's only water," she said. "Tell that to a drowning man," Giddon said.

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He made her drunk, this man made her drunk; and every time his eyes flashed into hers she could not breathe.

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Circumstances don't always align themselves with human intention.

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Our own story is even more important for us to know than history.

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I'm not going to wear a red dress," she said. "It would look stunning, My Lady," she called. She spoke to the bubbles gathered on the surface of the water. "If there's anyone I wish to stun at dinner, I'll hit him in the face.

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How acutely sometimes the presence or absence of people mattered

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You're the queen, and it's the queen's house, and whatever Brigan may accomplish, he's highly unlikely ever to be queen.

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In the end, Leck should have stuck to his lies. For it was the truth he almost told that killed him.

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Please, Katsa," he finally said. "At least talk to me". She swung around to face him. "What it there to talk about? You know how I feel, and what I think about it." "And what I feel? Doesn't it matter?

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He considered her seriously. "Well. And that's easy," he said. "My Grace will protect me from him, And I'll protect you. You'll be safe with me, Katsa.

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I must stop wishing for things to happen. Because something will happen eventually, and when it does, I'll be bound to wish it hadn't.

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And what was it about the dark that made her question things she'd never questioned before, in the day.

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Sit, Your High Majestic Lord Princes," she said. She yanked a chair from the table and sat herself down. "You're in fine temper," Raffin said. "Your hair is blue," Katsa snapped back.

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I wanted you to go away, because it hurts to be with you when I can't see you." - Po

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She cried like a person whose heart is broken and wondered how, when two people loved each other, there could be such a broken heart.

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Everybody was strange. In a fit of frustration, she scratched out strange and wrote the word CRACKPOTS in big letters.

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Alone with Giddon again, Bitterblue considered him, rather liking the mud streaks on his face. He looked like a handsome sunken rowboat.

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Something caught in her throat at this second thanks, when she'd threatened him so brutally. When you're a monster, she thought, you are thanked and praised for not behaving like a monster. She would like to restrain from cruelty and receive no admiration for it.

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Tell me what I can do to help you feel better." Well...I always like when you kiss me... "Do you?" You're good at it. "Well, that's lucky. Because I'll always be kissing you.

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