Kristin Cashore Quotes - Page 3

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• She didn't want to go far, just out of the trees so she could see the stars. They always eased her loneliness. She thought of them as beautiful creatures, burning and cold; each solitary, and bleak, and silent like her.

  Kristin Cashore

  Beautiful, Stars, Loneliness

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• Through an arrow loop in the wall she saw a familiar horse and rider tearing across the camp toward the healing rooms. Brigan pulled up at Nash's feet and dropped from the saddle. The two brothers threw their arms around each other and embraced hard. Shortly thereafter he stepped into the healing rooms and leaned in the doorway, looking across at her quietly. Brocker's son with the gentle gray eyes. She abandoned all pretense of decorum and ran at him.

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  Brother, Horse, Wall

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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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  Hair, Blue, Tables

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• Are you determined to leave me in this world to live without my heart?

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  Heart, World, Determined

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.72, 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 In my living fire I will keep your scorn and mine In my living fire I will keep your heartache and mine At the disgrace of a waste of a life

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  Fire, Dust, Heartache

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

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• Well then," Roen said briskly, "are you sleeping?" "Yes." "Come now. A mother can tell when her son lies. Are you eating?" "No," Brigan said gravely. "I've not eaten in two months. It's a hunger strike to protest the spring flooding in the south." "Gracious," Roen said, reaching for the fruit bowl. "Have an apple, dear.

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  Mother, Lying, Spring

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.92, Penguin

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

  Kristin Cashore

  Hurt, Going Away, Wanted

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• When you're a monster, you are thanked and praised for not being a monster.

  Kristin Cashore

  Monsters

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• You're in fine temper," Raffin said. "Your hair is blue," she snapped back.

  Kristin Cashore

  Hair, Blue, Said

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• That was what they did with themselves, those two Gracelings, along with a small band of friends: They stirred up trouble on a serious scale—bribery, coercion, sabotage, organized rebellion—all directed at stopping the worst behavior of the world’s most seriously corrupt kings.

  Kristin Cashore

  Kings, Two, Serious

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

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• You’re crying.” “I’m not.” “Right,” he said mildly. “I suppose you got rained on.

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  Cry, Said

  Kristin Cashore (2012). “Bitterblue”, p.72, Penguin

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• I'm afraid of plenty of things," he said. "I just do them anyway.

  Kristin Cashore

  Said, Plenty

  Kristin Cashore (2012). “Bitterblue”, p.134, Penguin

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• Your sadness is one of the things that makes you beautiful to me. Don't you see that? I understand it. It makes my own sadness less frightening." (Brigan)

  Kristin Cashore

  Beautiful, Sadness, Frightening

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• ...you could not measure love on a scale of degrees, and now she understood that it was the same with pain. Pain might escalate upward and, just when you thought you'd reach your limit, begin to spread sideways, and spill out, and touch other people, and mix with their pain. And grow larger, but somehow less oppressive. She had thought herself trapped in a place outside the ordinary feeling lives of people; she had not noticed how many other people were trapped in that place with her.

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  Pain, People, Feelings

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• If I'd been trying to kill him, he'd be dead.

  Kristin Cashore

  Trying, Ifs

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Graceling”, p.86, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• What she really loved was to hang over the edge and watch the bow of the ship slice through the waves. She loved it especially when the waves were high and the ship rose and fell, or when it was snowing and the flakes stung her face.

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  Inspirational, Funny, Ocean

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• How absurd it was that in all seven kingdoms, the weakest and most vulnerable of people - girls, women - went unarmed and were taught nothing of fighting, while the strong were trained to the highest reaches of their skill.

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  Girl, Strong, Fighting

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Graceling”, p.398, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It was a very hard thing to have crushed the heart, and the hopes, of a friend.

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  Heart, Crushed, Hard

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.157, Penguin

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• Do you understand? I don't want you to do a thing if you don't understand it.

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  Want, Ifs

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• It was a hurting tune, resigned, a cry of heartache for all in the world that fell apart. As ash rose black against the brilliant sky, Fire's fiddle cried out for the dead, and for the living who stay behind to say goodbye.

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  Goodbye, Hurt, Fire

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• Brigan," she said, annoyed that he had not understood. "I’ll always be beautiful. Look at me. I have one hundred and sixty two bug bites, and has it made me any less beautiful? I’m missing two fingers and I have scars all over, but does anyone care? No! It just makes me more interesting! I’ll always be like this, stuck in this beautiful form, and you’ll have to deal with it." He seemed to sense that she expected a grave response, but for the moment, he was incapable. "I suppose it’s a burden I must bear," he said, grinning.

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  Beautiful, Two, Interesting

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.278, Penguin

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• He thinks we're made of money.

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  Money, Thinking, Made

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• All right," Clara said. "We have our swordsman, so let's get moving. Brigan, could you attempt, at least, to make yourself presentable? I know this is a war, but the rest of us are trying to pretend it's a party.

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  War, Party, Moving

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.197, Penguin

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• His last thought was that it hadn't been stupidity that had allowed his son to enchant him so easily with words. It had been love.

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  Son, Stupidity, Lasts

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.16, Penguin

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• If her enemies were Brigan's friends and her friends were Brigan's enemies, then the two of them could walk through the world arm in arm and never be hit by arrows again.

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  Two, Arrows, Enemy

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.93, Penguin

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