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• When Brocker arrived he took her hands and held them to his face and cried into them.

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  Hands, Faces, Cried

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.255, Penguin

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• It always struck Fire, the physical affection between these siblings, who as often as not were at each other's throats over one thing or another. She liked the way the four of them shifted and changed shape, bumping and clanging against one another, sharpening each other's edges and then smoothing them down again, and somehow always finding the way to fit together.

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  Sibling, Fire, Together

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.96, Hachette UK

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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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  Water, Wish, Dresses

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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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  Lying, Should Have, Deceit

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Graceling”, p.417, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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 don't understand your book. Isn't every book a book of words?

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  Book

  Kristin Cashore (2012). “Bitterblue”, p.40, Penguin

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• If she took Po as her husband, she would be making promises about a future she couldn't yet see. For once she became his wife, she would be his forever. And, no matter how much freedom Po gave her, she would always know that it was a gift. Her freedom would be not be her own; it would be Po's to give or to withhold. That he never would withhold it made no difference. If it did not come from her, it was not really hers.

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  Husband, Differences, Giving

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• Go safely. Go safely, she thought to him. what a silly, empty thing it was to say to anyone, anywhere.

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  Silly, Empty

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.210, Penguin

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• Still doing your best to ruin the horses, I see.

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  Horse, Ruins, Doing Your Best

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Graceling”, p.435, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Katsa didn't think a person should thank her for not causing pain. Causing joy was worthy of thanks, and causing pain worthy of disgust. Causing neither was neither, it was nothing, and nothing didn't warrant thanks.

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  Pain, Thinking, Joy

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Graceling”, p.134, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• This may be a thing you neither want nor need," she said. "But I'd rather you have it, wishing didn't, than not have it and wish you did.

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  Wish, Needs, May

  Kristin Cashore (2012). “Bitterblue”, p.145, Penguin

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• Archer, is there a servant girl in my fortress you haven't taken to bed? I announce you're leaving and within minutes two of them are at each other's throats, and another is crying her eyes out in the scullery. Honestly. You've been here all of nine days." - Roen, "Fire

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  Girl, Archer, Taken

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.73, Penguin

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• Maybe it was for the best that she'd been so foolish, for if she'd known how hard this would be, perhaps she wouldn't have done it.

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  Would Be, Done, Foolish

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Graceling”, p.356, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If I wanted to stun anyone at dinner, I'd hit them in the face.

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  Dinner, Faces, Wanted

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• I’m as old as both of you,” she said, even though she suspected she wasn’t, “and I’m smarter, and I can probably fight as well as you can.

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  Fighting, Said, Wells

  Kristin Cashore (2012). “Bitterblue”, p.40, Penguin

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• Things don't ever stay the same. Natural beginnings come to natural or unnatural ends.

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  Natural, Ends, Unnatural

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• Some of the smartest men have a hard time comprehending the obvious.

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  Hard Times, Men, Obvious

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• Perhaps I can stay by the fire and mend your socks and scream if I hear any strange noises.

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  Fire, Noise, Strange

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Graceling”, p.181, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Mercy was more frightening than murder, because it was harder.

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  Murder, Mercy, Harder

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Graceling”, p.170, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I meditate, and when I do, Prince Harry appears in my subconscious and meditates with me. It's a little strange but I don't think there's anything I can do about it. Sometimes he's not the only one; the other day it was me, Prince Harry, the Dalai Lama, Mr. Rogers, Coco the gorilla, and George Clooney. We were all floating above the earth looking down at the continents as they passed. George Clooney suggested I visit Providence, Rhode Island. The Dalai Lama sighed deeply and said he'd like to visit Tibet. Poor Dalai Lama.

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  Thinking, Rhode Island, Islands

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• There was no helping her tears. For they would leave Po behind… She cried into his shoulder like a child. Ashamed of herself, for it was only a parting, and Bitterblue had not wept like this even over a death. ‘Don’t be ashamed,' Po whispered. ‘Your sadness is dear to me. Don’t be frightened. I won’t die, Katsa. I won’t die, and we’ll meet again.

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  Children, Sadness, Tears

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Graceling”, p.317, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Fire sat unbreathing. A life that was an apology for the life of his father: It was a notion she could understand, beyond words and thought. She understood it the way she understood music.

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  Father, Apology, Fire

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.56, Penguin

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• Katsa now sat calmly on the stomach of her vanquished foe. "He was handsome," said said. Po moaned. "Was he beat-to-a-pulp handsome, or perhaps just push-down-a-flight-of-stairs handsome?" "I would not push a seventy six year old man down a flight of stairs," said Katsa indignantly.

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  Men, Years, Six Year Olds

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• Sneaking was a kind of deceit. So was disguise. Just past midnight, wearing dark trousers and Fox's hood, the queen snuck out of her own rooms and stepped into a world of stories and lies.

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  Queens, Lying, Dark

  Kristin Cashore (2012). “Bitterblue”, p.22, Penguin

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• Wonderful," Garan grumbled when he'd gone. "We'll grow a reputation for our kindness to lawbreakers.

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  Kindness, Gone, Reputation

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.143, Penguin

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