Katsa Quotes

• I'm not such a bad fighter myself," Skye said. Po exploded with laughter. "Oh, fight him, Katsa. Please fight him. I can't imagine a more entertaining diversion.

  Kristin Cashore

  Laughter, Fighting, Fighter

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• He considered her seriously. "Well. And that's easy," he said. "My Grace will protect me from him, And I'll protect you. You'll be safe with me, Katsa.

  Kristin Cashore

  Grace, Safe, Easy

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Graceling”, p.222, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Helda's been trying to impress me with the embroidery on the sheets. One more minute and I thought I might use them to hang myself." "My mother did the embroidery," Bittterblue said. Katsa clapped her mouth shut and glared at Helda. "Thank you, Helda, for mentioning that detail.

  Kristin Cashore

  Mother, Might Use, Trying

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

  Kristin Cashore

  Hair, Blue, Said

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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

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

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• Katsa turned to Po with tears in her eyes. 'He'll be so angry.' 'He won't stay angry forever.' 'Won't he?' she said. 'People do sometimes.' 'Do they?' he said. 'Reasonable people? I hope that's not true.' Katsa gave him a funny look, but didn't answer. Resumed hugging herself and kicking things.

  Kristin Cashore

  Eye, People, Forever

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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.

  Kristin Cashore

  Love You, Eye, Heart

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

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• Katsa sat in the darkness of the Sunderan forest and understood three truths. She loved Po. She wanted Po. And she could never be anyone's but her own.

  Kristin Cashore

  Darkness, Three, Forests

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

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• Skye kissed her forehead. "You saved my life." Katsa smiled. "You Lienid are very outward in your affection." "I'm going to name my firstborn child after you." Katsa laughed at that. "For the child's sake, wait for a girl. Or even better, wait until all your children are older and give my name to whichever is the most troublesome and obstinate." Skye burst into laughter and hugged her, and Katsa returned his embrace. And realized that quite without her intending it, her guarded heart had made another friend.

  Kristin Cashore

  Girl, Laughter, Children

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Graceling”, p.433, 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.

  Kristin Cashore

  Beautiful, Wish, Caves

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• I'll teach you how to defend yourself, how to maim a man. We can use Po as a model.' 'Wonderful,' Po said. 'It's quite boring really, the way you beat me to death with your hands and feet, Katsa. It'll be refreshing to have you come at me with a knife.

  Kristin Cashore

  Men, Feet, Hands

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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.

  Kristin Cashore

  Girl, Strong, Fighting

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Graceling”, p.398, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I wouldn't marry Giddon to save my life," Katsa said. "Not even to save yours." "Well." Raffin's eyes were full of laughter. "I'd leave that part out.

  Kristin Cashore

  Laughter, Eye, Said

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Graceling”, p.109, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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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• He laughed. "I know you're teasing me. And you should know I'm not easily humiliated. You may hunt for my food, and pound me every time we fight, and protect me when we're attacked, if you like. I'll thank you for it.

  Kristin Cashore

  Fighting, May, Pounds

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Graceling”, p.181, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It seems better to me for a child to have these skills and never use them, than not have them and one day need them," she said.

  Kristin Cashore

  Children, Skills, One Day

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• What are you grinning at?" Katsa demanded for the third or fourth time. "Is the ceiling about to cave in on my head or something? You look like we're both on the verge of an enormous joke." "Katsa, only you would consider the collapse of the ceiling a good joke.

  Kristin Cashore

  Ceilings, Looks, Caves

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• Sit, Your High Majestic Lord Princes," she said. She yanked a chair from the table and sat herself down. "You're in fine temper," Raffin said. "Your hair is blue," Katsa snapped back.

  Kristin Cashore

  Hair, Blue, Tables

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• Katsa didn't think a person should thank her for not causing pain. Causing joy was worthy of thanks, and causing pain worthy of disgust. Causing neither was neither, it was nothing, and nothing didn't warrant thanks.

  Kristin Cashore

  Pain, Thinking, Joy

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Graceling”, p.134, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I'm not going to wear a red dress," she said. "It would look stunning, My Lady," she called. She spoke to the bubbles gathered on the surface of the water. "If there's anyone I wish to stun at dinner, I'll hit him in the face.

  Kristin Cashore

  Water, Wish, Dresses

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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.

  Kristin Cashore

  Humiliate

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

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

  Kristin Cashore

  Laughter, Judging, Trying

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

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• Katsa watched the long grass moving around them. The wind pushed it, attacked it, struck it in one place and then another. It rose and fell and rose again. It flowed, like water.

  Kristin Cashore

  Moving, Long Grass, Wind

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Graceling”, p.128, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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.

  Kristin Cashore

  Rotten, Said, Contrast

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

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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.

  Kristin Cashore

  Real, Long, Hug

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

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