Kristin Cashore Quotes - Page 9

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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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• Brigan spun around to face the man, swearing with as much as exasperation and fury as Fire had ever heard anyone swear. The man scuttled away in alarm.

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  Men, Fire, Alarms

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.210, 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.

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  Eye, Men, Drunk

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Graceling”, p.242, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It was just that she had the need to tell him something honest, something honest and unhappy, because cheerful lies tonight were too depressing and too sharp, turning in on her like pins

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  Depressing, Lying, Unhappy

  Kristin Cashore (2012). “Bitterblue”, p.73, Penguin

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• Would you please do me the honor of telling me WHAT THE BLAZES IS GOING ON?

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  Honor, Please

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• I’m bored to death. Perhaps I should pillage one of my neighbors for my own amusement. It seems to work for Drowden.

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  Bored, Amusement, Neighbor

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

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  Rivers, Doe, Troublesome

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• That's interesting," Bitterblue said. "You think a conscience requires fear?

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  Thinking, Interesting, Said

  Kristin Cashore (2012). “Bitterblue”, p.285, Penguin

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• I've liked you better when Katsa's around," Giddon said. "She's so rotten to me that you seem positively pleasant in contrast.

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  Rotten, Said, Contrast

  Kristin Cashore (2012). “Bitterblue”, p.211, Penguin

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• For a group of people who claimed to be concerned for her safety, they did seem to have developed rather a habit of encouraging uprisings against monarchs.

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  Uprising, People, Safety

  Kristin Cashore (2012). “Bitterblue”, p.89, Penguin

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• I don't understand your book. Isn't every book a book of words?

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  Book

  Kristin Cashore (2012). “Bitterblue”, p.40, Penguin

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• Your face will freeze like that, you know, Kat," Raffin said helpfully to Katsa. "Maybe I should rearrange your face, Raff," said Katsa. "I should like smaller ears," Raffin offered. "Prince Raffin has nice, handsome ears," Helda said, not looking up from her knitting. "As will his children. Your children will have no ears at all, My Lady," she said sternly to Katsa. Katsa stared back at her, flabbergasted. "I believe it's more that her ears won't have children," began Raffin, "which, you'll agree, sounds much less—

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  Children, Nice, Believe

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• Katsa and Po were trying to drown each other and, judging from their hoots of laughter, enjoying it immensely.

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  Laughter, Judging, Trying

  Kristin Cashore (2012). “Bitterblue”, p.84, Penguin

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• Your horse is named Small. Yes. Mine is named Big. -Fire and Brigan

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  Horse, Fire, Bigs

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• Part a of scene from 'Bitterblue' between Madlen (Bitterblue's medicine woman) and Bitterblue: Madlen came to sit beside her [Bitterblue] on the bed. "Lady Queen," she said with her own particular brand of rough gentleness. "It is not the job of the child to protect her mother. It's the mother's job to protect the child. By allowing your mother to protect you, you gave her a gift. Do you understand me?

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  Mother, Jobs, Queens

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• A quote from 'Fire' where Fire projected a thought to her best friend Archer: "Love doesn't measure that way, she [Fire] thought to him [Archer]. And you may blame me for your feelings, but it isn't fair to blame me for how you've chosen to behave.

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  Archer, Fire, Feelings

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• In the saddle again, Fire mulled over the commander's trust, prodding it around, like a candy in her mouth, trying to decide whether she believed it.

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  Fire, Trying, Mouths

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.105, Penguin

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• How acutely sometimes the presence or absence of people mattered

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  People, Sometimes, Absence

  Kristin Cashore (2012). “Bitterblue”, p.312, Penguin

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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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• 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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