Bitterblue Quotes

#1. But that's how memory works," Bitterblue said quietly. "Things disappear without your permission, then come back again without your permission." And sometimes they came back incomplete and warped.

Kristin Cashore

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

Kristin Cashore

#3. Danzhol. The one with the marriage proposal and the objections to the town charter in central Monsea. "Bacon," Bitterblue muttered. "Bacon!" she repeated, then carefully made her way up the spiral stairs.

Kristin Cashore

#4. I wish people would stop hitting Po," whispered Bitterblue.
"Well," Giddon said. "Yes. I'm hoping Skye is following my model. Punch Po; go on a long trip; feel better; come back and make up.

Kristin Cashore

#5. Alone with Giddon again, Bitterblue considered him, rather liking the mud streaks on his face. He looked like a handsome sunken rowboat.

Kristin Cashore

#6. 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

#7. His name was Death. It was pronounced to rhyme with "teeth", but Bitterblue liked to mispronounce it by accident on occassion.

Kristin Cashore

#8. You don't need to be strong to drive your thumbs into a man's eyeballs," Katsa said, "but it does a lot of damage."
"That's disgusting," Bitterblue said.
"Someone your size doesn't have the luxury of fighting cleanly, Bitterblue.

Kristin Cashore

#9. Bitterblue had never seen a man naked, and she was curious. She decided the universe owed her a few minutes, just a few, to satisfy her curiosity. So she went to him and knelt, which shut him up.

Kristin Cashore

#10. It was starting to seem to her that being "forward-thinking" too often involved avoiding any kind of thought at all - especially about things that might benefit from a great deal of thinking.

Kristin Cashore

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

Kristin Cashore

#12. I'm afraid of plenty of things," he said. "I just do them anyway.

Kristin Cashore

#13. When we treat the earth as an object, we dehumanize ourselves.

Craig Detweiler

#14. Here's a word. Bereavement. Or, Bereaved. Bereft. It's from the Old English bereafian, meaning 'to deprive of, take away, seize, rob'. Robbed. Seized. It happens to everyone. But you feel it alone. Shocking loss isn't to be shared, no matter how hard you try.

Helen Macdonald

#15. Whoever wishes to devote himself to painting should begin by cutting out his own tongue

Henri Matisse

#16. She pulled the hood over the girl's ears and fastened it tight. Biterblue looked like a potato sack, a small, shivering potato sack with empty eyes and a knife.

Kristin Cashore

#17. Why does everybody throw every troublesome thing into the river?

Kristin Cashore

#18. Everybody was strange. In a fit of frustration, she scratched out strange and wrote the word CRACKPOTS in big letters.

Kristin Cashore

#19. Why would he try to ruin something so beautiful? What is the world he was trying, and failing to create?
What is the world Runnemood is trying to create? And why must they both create their worlds by destroying?

Kristin Cashore

#20. This continuous monologue that seeks to become a dialogue... (Zoltan Galos)

Z.J. Galos

#21. mmmm, space stuff

Matthew Reilly

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

Kristin Cashore

#23. Find something useful to do with your morning,' she thought to him as she neared her chambers. 'Do something heroic in front of an audience. Knock a child into a river while no one's looking and then rescue him.

Kristin Cashore

#24. The submission of one's will is really the only uniquely personal thing we have to place on God's altar. The many other things we 'give' are actually the things He has already given or loaned to us.

Neal A. Maxwell

#25. 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

#26. How acutely sometimes the presence or absence of people mattered

Kristin Cashore

#27. 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.

Kristin Cashore