Kristin Cashore Quotes - Page 6

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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.

  Kristin Cashore

  Queens, Lying, Comfort

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

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

  Kristin Cashore

  Rivers, Doe, Troublesome

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

  Kristin Cashore

  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.

  Kristin Cashore

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

  Kristin Cashore

  Greatness, Suffering, Lessons

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

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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.

  Kristin Cashore

  Queens, Giving, Honor

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

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• He made her drunk, this man made her drunk; and every time his eyes flashed into hers she could not breathe.

  Kristin Cashore

  Eye, Men, Drunk

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Graceling”, p.242, 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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• 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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• People want incongruous, impossible things.

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  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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• You cannot measure love by a scale of degrees.

  Kristin Cashore

  Degrees, Scales

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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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• Well, none of it would ever end if she was too afraid for it to begin.

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  Fear, Ends, Wells

  Kristin Cashore (2012). “Bitterblue”, p.273, 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'm not good at love. I'm like a barbed creature. I push everyone I love away.

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  Pushing Me Away, Creatures

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

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

  Kristin Cashore

  Katsa

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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?

  Kristin Cashore

  Thinking, Matter, Faces

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

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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.

  Kristin Cashore

  Fighting, Blow, Ice

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

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• At least her last words to him had been words of love. But she wished she'd told him just how much she loved him. How much she had to thank him for, how many good things he had done. She hadn't told him nearly enough.

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  Done, Lasts, Enough

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.230, Penguin

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• Well then, "Katsa said. "Of course, we'll operate with the greatest possible secrecy, Bitterblue. And for what it's worth, we'll deny your involvement to our dying breaths, and I'll kill anyone who doesn't." Bann began to laugh into Raffin's shoulder. Smiling, Raffin said sideways to him, "Can you imagine what it would be like to be able to say that and mean it?

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  Mean, Laughing, Dying

  Kristin Cashore (2012). “Bitterblue”, p.106, Penguin

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