Graceling Quotes

#1. 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

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

Kristin Cashore

#3. The hardest part about changing the new year is changing ourselves. We have to write each day differently than last year's days. If we do, we increase the chances we won't meet with last year's disappointments. Patricia Hickman

Patricia Hickman

#4. She didn't know what would happen because of this. But she knew that today, she would hurt no one. She threw back her blankets and though only of today.

Kristin Cashore

#5. Always one of the trials of a new wound: old wounds like to rise up and start hurting again, too.

Kristin Cashore

#6. They seemed no closer to the tops of the peaks that rose before them. It was only by looking back, to the forest far below, that she knew they'd climbed.

Kristin Cashore

#7. 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

#8. A man doesn't save a century, or a civilization, but a militant party wedded to a principle can.

Adlai Stevenson I

#9. It was ironic; he held her captive, yet she'd captivated him.

Jeaniene Frost

#10. He made her drunk, this man made her drunk; and every time his eyes flashed into hers she could not breathe.

Kristin Cashore

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. What I refuse to do is anything that I did before. It takes discipline to accomplish this, as humans are addicted to the familiar.

Tarryn Fisher

#14. I can't know your feelings", he said ,"if you don't know them yourself.

Kristin Cashore

#15. I can't understand how anyone can write without rewriting everything over and over again.

Leo Tolstoy

#16. What? What are you grinning about?"
"Its meant to be attractive to my wife."
"You have a wife?"
"Great seas no! Honestly, Kasta. don't you think I would have mentioned her?

Kristin Cashore

#17. Making movies, you're like an independent contractor - you come in, you have a specific job, and a lot of what you do is completely manipulated, which is good and bad.

Zooey Deschanel

#18. Everyone was someone else's instrument. But she would have to take him into confidence and use him as a trusted instrument nonetheless.

Seth Dickinson

#19. Stop thinking of yourself as a victim. You were a target that is now no longer being hit.

Thomas Sheridan