Kristin Cashore Quotes

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• When a monster stopped behaving like a monster, did it stop being a monster? Did it become something else?

  Kristin Cashore

  Monsters, Graceling, Katsa

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Graceling”, p.137, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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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  Running, Mind, Way

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Graceling”, p.315, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I don't want to love you if you're only going to die.

  Kristin Cashore

  Love You, Want, Dies

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.243, Penguin

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• There's no shame in crawling when one can't walk.

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  Shame, Crawling, Walks

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Graceling”, p.320, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• And you may blame me for your feelings, but it isn't fair to blame me for how you've chosen to behave.

  Kristin Cashore

  Feelings, May, Blame

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.83, Penguin

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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.

  Kristin Cashore

  Heart, Two, People

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Graceling”, p.232, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There are no medicines to bring a dead thing back to life.

  Kristin Cashore

  Medicine

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.219, Penguin

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• Everyone was willing to take some small risk to lessen the damage of their ambition and disorder and lawlessness.

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  Ambition, Risk, Lawlessness

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Graceling”, p.32, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A man who fights you as he does is no better than an opportunist and no worse than a thug.

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  Fighting, Thug, Men

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Graceling”, p.141, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• What a horrifying notion," he said. "A creature with the power to take over one's mind.

  Kristin Cashore

  Mind, Said, Notion

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.14, Penguin

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• The kingdoms' people were at the mercy of the natures of those who rose to be their rulers. It was a gamble, and the current generation did not make for a winning hand.

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  Winning, Hands, People

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Graceling”, p.19, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• She expected the pain, when it came. But she gasped at its sharpness; it was not like any pain she had felt before. He kissed her and slowed and would have stopped. But she laughed, and said that this one time she would consent to hurt, and bleed, at his touch. He smiled into her neck and kissed her again and she moved with him through the pain. The pain became a warmth that grew. Grew, and stopped her breath. And took her breath and her pain and her mind away from her body, so that there was nothing but her body and his body and the light and fire they made together.

  Kristin Cashore

  Hurt, Pain, Fire

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Graceling”, p.242, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• And the kings were no better to their own people than they were to each others.

  Kristin Cashore

  Kings, People

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Graceling”, p.18, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I know you don't want this, Katsa. But I can't help myself. The moment you came barreling into my life I was lost. I'm afraid to tell you what I wish for, for fear you'll... oh, I don't know, throw me into the fire. Or more likely, refuse me. Or worst of all, despise me," he said, his voice breaking and his eyes dropping from her face. His face dropping into his hands. "I love you," he said. "You're more dear to my heart than I ever knew anyone could be. And I've made you cry; and there I'll stop.

  Kristin Cashore

  Love You, Eye, Heart

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Graceling”, p.231, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It's as if when I open myself up to every perception, things create their own focus.

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  Focus, Perception, Ifs

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Graceling”, p.459, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You're good at love," she said simply, because it seemed to her that it was true. "I'm not so good at love. I'm like a barbed creature. I push everyone I love away." He shrugged. "I don't mind you pushing me away if it means you love me, little sister.

  Kristin Cashore

  Mean, Little Sister, Mind

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• Every configuration of people is an entirely new universe unto itself.

  Kristin Cashore

  People, Configuration, Universe

  Kristin Cashore (2012). “Bitterblue”, p.237, Penguin

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• Circumstances don't always align themselves with human intention.

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  Intention, Circumstances, Humans

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.52, Penguin

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• Gratitude takes less energy than anger.

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  Gratitude, Anger, Energy

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.192, Penguin

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• Lady Katsa, is it?" "Yes, Lord Prince." "I've heard you have one eye green as the Middluns grasses, and the other eye blue as the sky." "Yes, Lord Prince." "I've heard you can kill a man with the nail of your smallest finger." She smiled. "Yes, Lord Prince." "Does it make it easier?" "I don't understand you." "To have beautiful eyes. Does it lighten the burden of your Grace, to know you have beautiful eyes?

  Kristin Cashore

  Beautiful, Eye, Men

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• Brigan was saying her name, and he was sending her a feeling. It was courage and strength, and something else too, as if he were standing with her, as if he'd taken her within himself, letting her rest her entire body for a moment on his backbone, her mind in his mind, her heart in the fire of his. The fire of Brigan's heart was astounding. Fire understood, and almost could not believe, that the feeling he was sending her was love.

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  Love, Believe, Taken

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.180, Penguin

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• Your brand of comfort bears some similarity to your tactical offense.

  Kristin Cashore

  Comfort, Bears, Similarity

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Graceling”, p.450, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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.

  Kristin Cashore

  Wish, Doe, Happens

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.77, Penguin

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• While I was looking the other way your fire went out. Left me with cinders to kick into dust, what a waste of the wonder you were

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  Fire, Dust, Way

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.7, Penguin

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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.

  Kristin Cashore

  Water, Wish, Dresses

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