Kristin Cashore Quotes - Page 5

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• Find something useful to do with your morning,' she thought to him as she neared her chambers. 'Do something heroic in front of an audience. Knock a child into a river while no one's looking and then rescue him.

  Kristin Cashore

  Morning, Children, Rivers

  Kristin Cashore (2012). “Bitterblue”, p.80, Penguin

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• Only a person with the true heart of a dictionary-writer would be lying in bed, three days after being stabbed in the gut, worrying about his P's.

  Kristin Cashore

  Lying, Heart, Worry

  Kristin Cashore (2012). “Bitterblue”, p.91, Penguin

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• Ideas were growing in all directions and dimensions; they were becoming a sculpture, or a castle. And then everyone left her, to return to their own affairs; and she was alone, and empty and unbelieving again.

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  Ideas, Castles, Sculpture

  Kristin Cashore (2012). “Bitterblue”, p.311, Penguin

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• His name was Death. It was pronounced to rhyme with "teeth", but Bitterblue liked to mispronounce it by accident on occassion.

  Kristin Cashore

  Names, Teeth, Rhyme

  Kristin Cashore (2012). “Bitterblue”, p.28, Penguin

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• If he touches you, I'll come in and choke him to death.

  Kristin Cashore

  Choke, Ifs

  Kristin Cashore (2012). “Bitterblue”, p.165, Penguin

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• Isn't is lovely to be all together again?" Raffin said, throwing one arm around Po and the other around Bann. -------- She wanted them near, even if they were subsumed by their own affairs, she needed them at sword practice in the morning, at dinner at night, moving and shifting around her, there and gone, back again, arguing, teasing, acting like people who knew who they were.

  Kristin Cashore

  Morning, Moving, Night

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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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• It has been a hard lesson to learn, that greatness requires suffering.

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  Greatness, Suffering, Lessons

  Kristin Cashore (2012). “Bitterblue”, p.274, Penguin

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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.

  Kristin Cashore

  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)

  Kristin Cashore

  Beautiful, Sadness, Frightening

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

  Kristin Cashore

  Cry, Said

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

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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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• Love is stupid. It has nothing to do with reason. You love whomever you love.

  Kristin Cashore

  Stupid, Love Is, Reason

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• You can't help whom you love, Lady. Nor can you know what it's liable to cause you to do.

  Kristin Cashore

  Causes, Helping, Liable

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.154, Hachette UK

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• People want incongruous, impossible things.

  Kristin Cashore

  Impossible Things, People, Want

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.221, Penguin

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• Men are daft around women, incautious and boastful.

  Kristin Cashore

  Men, Daft

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

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

  Kristin Cashore

  Dark, Made

  Kristin Cashore (2012). “Bitterblue”, p.37, Penguin

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

  Kristin Cashore

  Important, Stories, Knows

  Kristin Cashore (2012). “Bitterblue”, p.278, Penguin

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• I hear you're supposed to be good at manipulating people. Try a little harder to make me like you, all right? I'm the queen. Your life will be nicer if I like you.

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  I Like You, Queens, People

  Kristin Cashore (2012). “Bitterblue”, p.130, Penguin

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• Madlen: 'It's a relief to me, Lady Queen, that in your own pain, you take no interest in hurting yourself.' Bitterblue: 'Why would I? Why should I? It's foolish. I would like to kick the people who do it.' Madlen: 'That would, perhaps, be redundant, Lady Queen.

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  Hurt, Queens, Pain

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• Ivan had contrived somehow in the dark of night to replace every watermelon in the watermelon patch with a gravestone, and every gravestone in the engraver's lot with a watermelon

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  Dark, Night, Gravestone

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

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• Teddy grinned again. 'Truths are dangerous,' he said. -'Then why are you writing them in a book?' -'To catch them between the pages,' said Teddy, 'and trap them before they disappear.' -'If they're dangerous, why not let them disappear?' -'Because when truths disappear, they leave behind blank spaces, and that is also dangerous.

  Kristin Cashore

  Book, Writing, Space

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• They seemed no closer to the tops of the peaks that rose before them. It was only by looking back, to the forest far below, that she knew they'd climbed.

  Kristin Cashore

  Rose, Forests, Graceling

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Graceling”, p.259, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• For now, Lady Queen," he said, "allow us to continue to obey you. But give us honorable instructions, Lady Queen," he said, turning a flushed face to hers. "Ask us to do honorable things, so that we may have the honor of obeying you.

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  Queens, Giving, Honor

  Kristin Cashore (2012). “Bitterblue”, p.315, Penguin

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