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.

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  Beautiful, Stars, Loneliness

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

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  Monsters

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

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  Hair, Blue, Said

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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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  Hurt, Going Away, Wanted

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

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  Trying, Ifs

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

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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.

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  Kings, Two, Serious

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

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• ...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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• 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)

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  Beautiful, Sadness, Frightening

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

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  Said, Plenty

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

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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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• Danzhol. The one with the marriage proposal and the objections to the town charter in central Monsea. "Bacon," Bitterblue muttered. "Bacon!" she repeated, then carefully made her way up the spiral stairs.

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  Way, Towns, Proposal

  Kristin Cashore (2012). “Bitterblue”, p.55, Penguin

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

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  Realizing, Knows

  Kristin Cashore (2012). “Bitterblue”, p.42, Penguin

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• Bacon improved things dramatically.

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  Kristin Cashore (2012). “Bitterblue”, p.60, Penguin

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• ...when truths disappear, they leave behind blank spaces, and that is also dangerous.

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  Space, Disappear, Blank

  Kristin Cashore (2012). “Bitterblue”, p.112, Penguin

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• I told you before, Katsa. I won't fight when you're angry. I won't solve a disagreement between us with blows." He lifted the ice and fingered his jaw. He moaned and held the ice to his face again. "What we do in the practice rooms-that's to help each other. We don't use it against each other. We're friends, Katsa. We're too dangerous to each other. And even if we weren't, it's not right.

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  Fighting, Blow, Ice

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Graceling”, p.122, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• ...that's how memory works ... Things disappear without your permission, then come back again without your permission.

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  Memories, Disappear, Permission

  Kristin Cashore (2012). “Bitterblue”, p.201, Penguin

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• Katsa turned to Po with tears in her eyes. 'He'll be so angry.' 'He won't stay angry forever.' 'Won't he?' she said. 'People do sometimes.' 'Do they?' he said. 'Reasonable people? I hope that's not true.' Katsa gave him a funny look, but didn't answer. Resumed hugging herself and kicking things.

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  Eye, People, Forever

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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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  Thinking, Matter, Faces

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Graceling”, p.230, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Part of avoiding thoughts about something was not encouraging opportunities for that something to makes itself felt.

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  Opportunity, Avoiding, Felt

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.137, Penguin

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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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  Running, Sadness, Body

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.135, Penguin

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