Kristin Cashore Quotes - Page 5

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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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• I'd like to restrain from cruelity and not be thanked." ~ Katsa

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  Katsa

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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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• 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.

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  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.

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  Names, Teeth, Rhyme

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

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• That was a perfectly reasonable explanation," she said grumpily. "Perhaps my advisers don't lie to me." "Isn't that what you'd want?" asked Giddon. "Well, yes, but it doesn't elucidate my puzzle!" "If I may say so, Lady Queen," said Giddon, "it's not always easy to follow your conversation." "Oh, Giddon," she said, sighing. "If it's any comfort, I don't follow it either.

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  Queens, Lying, Comfort

  Kristin Cashore (2012). “Bitterblue”, p.87, Penguin

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• Why does everybody throw every troublesome thing into the river?

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  Rivers, Doe, Troublesome

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• A king who’s innocent of the things of which he’s guilty?

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  Kings, Guilty, Innocent

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Graceling”, p.219, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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.

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  Book, Writing, Space

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• You cannot measure love by a scale of degrees.

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  Degrees, Scales

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• She would like to restrain from cruelty and receive no admiration for it.

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  Admiration, Cruelty

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Graceling”, p.136, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You know,” he said, “I wish you could see this cave.” “What’s it like?” He paused. “It’s...beautiful, really.” “Tell me.” And so Po described to Katsa what hid in the blackness of the cave; and outside, the world awaited them.

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  Beautiful, Wish, Caves

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• Tess had said that the river was liable to wash the palace and the city and the whole kingdom off the rocks, and then there would finally be peace in the world. "Peace in the world," Brigan repeated musingly when Fire told him. "I suppose she's right. That would bring peace to the world. But it's not likely to happen, so I suppose we'll have to keep blundering on and making a mess of it." "Oh," Fire said, "well put. We'll have to pass that on to the governor so he can use it in his speech when they dedicate the new bridge.

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  Rocks, Bridges, Cities

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• Why are you still here?" she asked. "Shouldn't you be in a cave somewhere inspiring people?

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  People, Caves, Stills

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.217, Penguin

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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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• But you're better than I am, Katsa. And it doesn't humiliate me. It humbles me. But it doesn't humiliate me.

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  Katsa, Humiliate

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Graceling”, p.182, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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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• We're going to win this war, you know, now that our army's together. But the world doesn't care who wins. It'll go on spinning, no matter how many people are slaughtered." After a moment, he added. "I almost wish it wouldn't, if we aren't allowed to go on spinning with it.

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  War, Army, Winning

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.228, Penguin

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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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