Kristin Cashore Quotes - Page 4

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• Are you determined to leave me in this world to live without my heart?

  Kristin Cashore

  Heart, World, Determined

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.72, Penguin

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• While I was looking the other way your fire went out Left me with cinders to kick into dust What a waste of the wonder you were In my living fire I will keep your scorn and mine In my living fire I will keep your heartache and mine At the disgrace of a waste of a life

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  Fire, Dust, Heartache

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.7, Penguin

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• Well then," Roen said briskly, "are you sleeping?" "Yes." "Come now. A mother can tell when her son lies. Are you eating?" "No," Brigan said gravely. "I've not eaten in two months. It's a hunger strike to protest the spring flooding in the south." "Gracious," Roen said, reaching for the fruit bowl. "Have an apple, dear.

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  Mother, Lying, Spring

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.92, 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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• All right," Clara said. "We have our swordsman, so let's get moving. Brigan, could you attempt, at least, to make yourself presentable? I know this is a war, but the rest of us are trying to pretend it's a party.

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  War, Party, Moving

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.197, Penguin

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• Dear Brigan, she thought to herself. People want incongruous, impossible things. Horses do, too.

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  Horse, Impossible Things, People

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

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• Brigan," she said, annoyed that he had not understood. "I’ll always be beautiful. Look at me. I have one hundred and sixty two bug bites, and has it made me any less beautiful? I’m missing two fingers and I have scars all over, but does anyone care? No! It just makes me more interesting! I’ll always be like this, stuck in this beautiful form, and you’ll have to deal with it." He seemed to sense that she expected a grave response, but for the moment, he was incapable. "I suppose it’s a burden I must bear," he said, grinning.

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  Beautiful, Two, Interesting

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.278, Penguin

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• I'd thought once, actually, of taking your mind, if you asked. I'd thought I could help you fall asleep at night." He opened his mouth to say something. Shut it again. His face closed for a moment, his unreadable mask falling into place. He spoke softly. "But that wouldn't be fair; for after I slept you'd be left awake, with no one to help you sleep.

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  Fall, Sleep, Night

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• I don’t often know who should read what book. It’s a little bit like trying to set people up on a date - a good match is unpredictable and mysterious.

  Kristin Cashore

  Book, People, Trying

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

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  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.

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  Morning, Moving, Night

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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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• It always struck Fire, the physical affection between these siblings, who as often as not were at each other's throats over one thing or another. She liked the way the four of them shifted and changed shape, bumping and clanging against one another, sharpening each other's edges and then smoothing them down again, and somehow always finding the way to fit together.

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  Sibling, Fire, Together

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.96, Hachette UK

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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.

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  Fighting, Blow, Ice

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

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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?

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  Thinking, Matter, Faces

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

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• If I'd been trying to kill him, he'd be dead.

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  Trying, Ifs

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Graceling”, p.86, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Katsa hugged her for a long time, and Bitterblue understood that this was always how it would be. Katsa would come and then Katsa would go. But the hug was real, and lasting, even though it would end. The coming was as real as the going, and the coming would always be a promise. It would have to be good enough.

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  Real, Long, Hug

  Kristin Cashore (2012). “Bitterblue”, p.337, Penguin

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• As she left the room, Po went to Katsa, pulled her up, sat himself in her chair, and drew her into his lap. Shushing her, he rocked her, the two of them holding on to each other as if it were the only thing keeping the world from bursting apart.

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  Two, Lap, World

  Kristin Cashore (2012). “Bitterblue”, p.235, Penguin

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

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  Important, Stories, Knows

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

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

  Kristin Cashore

  Katsa

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• You're in fine temper," Raffin said. "Your hair is blue," she snapped back.

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  Hair, Blue, Said

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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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• 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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• 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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• Location: Amsterdam, Where Fire Is Called "Vlam

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  Fire, Amsterdam, Location

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