Kristin Cashore Quotes

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• When a monster stopped behaving like a monster, did it stop being a monster? Did it become something else?

  Kristin Cashore

  Monsters, Graceling, Katsa

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Graceling”, p.137, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The only way for you to keep your mind straight is to run from those who would confuse you.

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  Running, Mind, Way

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Graceling”, p.315, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I don't want to love you if you're only going to die.

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  Love You, Want, Dies

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.243, Penguin

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• There's no shame in crawling when one can't walk.

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  Shame, Crawling, Walks

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Graceling”, p.320, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• She cried like a person whose heart is broken and wondered how, when two people loved each other, there could be such a broken heart.

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  Heart, Two, People

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Graceling”, p.232, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There are no medicines to bring a dead thing back to life.

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  Medicine

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.219, Penguin

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• Everyone was willing to take some small risk to lessen the damage of their ambition and disorder and lawlessness.

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  Ambition, Risk, Lawlessness

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Graceling”, p.32, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• What a horrifying notion," he said. "A creature with the power to take over one's mind.

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  Mind, Said, Notion

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.14, Penguin

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• The kingdoms' people were at the mercy of the natures of those who rose to be their rulers. It was a gamble, and the current generation did not make for a winning hand.

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  Winning, Hands, People

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Graceling”, p.19, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A man who fights you as he does is no better than an opportunist and no worse than a thug.

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  Fighting, Thug, Men

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Graceling”, p.141, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• She expected the pain, when it came. But she gasped at its sharpness; it was not like any pain she had felt before. He kissed her and slowed and would have stopped. But she laughed, and said that this one time she would consent to hurt, and bleed, at his touch. He smiled into her neck and kissed her again and she moved with him through the pain. The pain became a warmth that grew. Grew, and stopped her breath. And took her breath and her pain and her mind away from her body, so that there was nothing but her body and his body and the light and fire they made together.

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  Hurt, Pain, Fire

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

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• And the kings were no better to their own people than they were to each others.

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  Kings, People

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Graceling”, p.18, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Circumstances don't always align themselves with human intention.

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  Intention, Circumstances, Humans

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.52, Penguin

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• I know you don't want this, Katsa. But I can't help myself. The moment you came barreling into my life I was lost. I'm afraid to tell you what I wish for, for fear you'll... oh, I don't know, throw me into the fire. Or more likely, refuse me. Or worst of all, despise me," he said, his voice breaking and his eyes dropping from her face. His face dropping into his hands. "I love you," he said. "You're more dear to my heart than I ever knew anyone could be. And I've made you cry; and there I'll stop.

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  Love You, Eye, Heart

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Graceling”, p.231, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You're good at love," she said simply, because it seemed to her that it was true. "I'm not so good at love. I'm like a barbed creature. I push everyone I love away." He shrugged. "I don't mind you pushing me away if it means you love me, little sister.

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  Mean, Little Sister, Mind

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• Gratitude takes less energy than anger.

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  Gratitude, Anger, Energy

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.192, Penguin

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• Every configuration of people is an entirely new universe unto itself.

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  People, Configuration, Universe

  Kristin Cashore (2012). “Bitterblue”, p.237, Penguin

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• Lady Katsa, is it?" "Yes, Lord Prince." "I've heard you have one eye green as the Middluns grasses, and the other eye blue as the sky." "Yes, Lord Prince." "I've heard you can kill a man with the nail of your smallest finger." She smiled. "Yes, Lord Prince." "Does it make it easier?" "I don't understand you." "To have beautiful eyes. Does it lighten the burden of your Grace, to know you have beautiful eyes?

  Kristin Cashore

  Beautiful, Eye, Men

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• Brigan was saying her name, and he was sending her a feeling. It was courage and strength, and something else too, as if he were standing with her, as if he'd taken her within himself, letting her rest her entire body for a moment on his backbone, her mind in his mind, her heart in the fire of his. The fire of Brigan's heart was astounding. Fire understood, and almost could not believe, that the feeling he was sending her was love.

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  Love, Believe, Taken

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.180, Penguin

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• When Brocker arrived he took her hands and held them to his face and cried into them.

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  Hands, Faces, Cried

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.255, Penguin

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• If she took Po as her husband, she would be making promises about a future she couldn't yet see. For once she became his wife, she would be his forever. And, no matter how much freedom Po gave her, she would always know that it was a gift. Her freedom would be not be her own; it would be Po's to give or to withhold. That he never would withhold it made no difference. If it did not come from her, it was not really hers.

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  Husband, Differences, Giving

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• It's as if when I open myself up to every perception, things create their own focus.

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  Focus, Perception, Ifs

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Graceling”, p.459, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Archer, is there a servant girl in my fortress you haven't taken to bed? I announce you're leaving and within minutes two of them are at each other's throats, and another is crying her eyes out in the scullery. Honestly. You've been here all of nine days." - Roen, "Fire

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  Girl, Archer, Taken

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.73, Penguin

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• If I wanted to stun anyone at dinner, I'd hit them in the face.

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  Dinner, Faces, Wanted

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• This may be a thing you neither want nor need," she said. "But I'd rather you have it, wishing didn't, than not have it and wish you did.

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  Wish, Needs, May

  Kristin Cashore (2012). “Bitterblue”, p.145, Penguin

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