Top 100 Kristin Cashore Quotes
#1. 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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#2. You're the queen, and it's the queen's house, and whatever Brigan may accomplish, he's highly unlikely ever to be queen.
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#3. King Drowden has given his men instructions to infiltrate the town, bribe townspeople for the secrets of their neighbors, steal the neighbors' hidden treasures. Much more subtle than Drowden's usual smash and burn technique. We do hope Drowden isn't growing a brain.
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#4. 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.
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#5. 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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#6. 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.
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#7. Your brand of comfort bears some similarity to your tactical offense.
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#8. She'd lost her fury, somewhere, as they'd talked. She didn't feel it anymore. She wished she did, because she preferred it to the emptiness that had settled in its place.
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#9. Would you please do me the honor of telling me WHAT THE BLAZES IS GOING ON?
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#10. The fellow who tends the greenhouse gardens? Trust me, Lady, you'd let him stake your tomatoes.
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#11. She must learn who he was, so that she could know what do do with him.
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#12. 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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#14. He raised his eyebrows"you could kill me"
"i couldn't"she said"for you would know I meant to kill you, and you'd escape me. You'd stay far away from me, always"
"Ah, but i wouldn't"
"Yes, you would",she said,"if i wished to kill you"
"I wouldn't
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#15. I wanted you to go away, because it hurts to be with you when I can't see you. - Po
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#16. I think.' she said, 'that sometimes we don't feel the things that we are. But others can feel them.
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#19. It was a hurting tune, resigned, a cry of heartache for all in the world that fell apart. As ash rose black against the brilliant sky, Fire's fiddle cried out for the dead, and for the living who stay behind to say goodbye.
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#20. She couldn't steal herself back from Randa only to give herself away again - belong to another person, be answerable to another person, build her very being around another person.
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#21. She hadn't expected to have such an immediate opportunity to practice containing her temper.
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#22. Are you determined to leave me in this world to live without my heart?
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#23. He didn't ask what she was thinking, he didn't intrude; he would wait until she wanted to tell him.
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#24. He was still glowering into the distance, as if he expected the murderer to pop up from behind a boulder and wave.
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#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.
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#27. What a horrifying notion," he said. "A creature with the power to take over one's mind.
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#28. Propelled by nothing more than a drab sense of duty not to die if she didn't have to, Fire turned [...]
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#29. That was what they did with themselves, those two Gracelings, along with a small band of friends: They stirred up trouble on a serious scale - bribery, coercion, sabotage, organized rebellion - all directed at stopping the worst behavior of the world's most seriously corrupt kings.
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#30. Then I'm sorry I don't remember more. If we kew a person was going to die, we'd hold harder to the memories.
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#31. 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.
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#32. Po looked at her, but he didn't see her. His eyes snapped, silver ice and gold fire.
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#33. His last thought was that it hadn't been stupidity that had allowed his son to enchant him so easily with words. It had been love.
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#34. I'm so small that my husband won't be able to find me in the bed. And when he does, he'll discover that my breasts are uneven and I'm shaped like an eggplant.
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#35. Your sadness is one of the things that makes you beautiful to me. Don't you see that? I understand it. It makes my own sadness less frightening. (Brigan)
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#36. 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.
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#37. Because Roen is a strong-minded woman, and there's something consoling in the regard of a woman. Roen never desires me, or if she ever does, it's not the same.
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#38. Perhaps I can stay by the fire and mend your socks and scream if I hear any strange noises.
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#39. 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.
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#40. It was a haunting tune, unresigned, a cry of heartache for all in the world that fell apart. As ash rose black against the brilliant sky, Fire's fiddle cried out for the dead, and for the living who stay behind and say goodbye.
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#41. Every configuration of people is an entirely new universe unto itself.
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#42. Flame was the way, in the Dells, to send the bodies of the dead where their souls had gone, into nothingness. To respect that all things ended, except the world.
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#44. It's right that you should do so, Fire. It's right and it's your right, because you're my beautiful child, and beauty has rights that plainness never will.
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#45. 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.
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#46. Great! He has indigestion, so let's torture him with cake.
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#47. And what was it about the dark that made her question things she'd never questioned before, in the day.
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#48. But then, it was a strange monster, for beneath its exterior it was frightened and sickened by its own violence. It chastised itself for its savagery. And sometimes it had no heart for violence and rebelled against it utterly. A
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#49. You do trust him, though, Giddon?"
"Holt, who is stealing your sculptures and is of questionable mental health?"
"Yes."
"I trusted him five minutes ago. Now I'm at a bit of a loss."
"Your opinion five minutes ago is good enough for me.
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#50. That's how memory works ... Things disappear without your permission, then come back again without your permission.
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#51. 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.
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#52. Circumstances don't always align themselves with human intention.
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#53. How acutely sometimes the presence or absence of people mattered
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#54. Your brothers are the foolish ones for not seeing the strength in beautiful things.
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#55. For now, Lady Queen," he said, "allow us to continue to obey you. But give us honorable instructions, Lady Queen," he said, turning a flushed face to hers. "Ask us to do honorable things, so that we may have the honor of obeying you.
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#56. A king who's innocent
of the things of which he's guilty?
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#57. I must stop wishing for things to happen. Because something will happen eventually, and when it does, I'll be bound to wish it hadn't.
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#58. Do you understand? I don't want you to do a thing if you don't understand it.
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#59. Part of avoiding thoughts about something was not encouraging opportunities for that something to makes itself felt.
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#61. He leaned heavily on the desk now, as if danger had strengthened him before and its lack now made him weak.
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#62. I thought it was supposed to be impossible to sneak up on you. Eyes of a hawk and ears of a wolf and all.
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#63. But you're better than I am, Katsa. And it doesn't humiliate me. It humbles me. But it doesn't humiliate me.
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#64. Brigan threw his head back and smiled at the sky. Well said, Lady. The world may be falling to pieces, but at least the lot of us can have a bath.
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#65. Then she'll know I'll want to knock her senseless if she so much as looks at me.
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#66. Why are you still here?" she asked. "Shouldn't you be in a cave somewhere inspiring people?
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#67. You have a wound too, Papa." Hanna took Brigan's left hand, which was wrapped in a bandage, and inspected it. "Did you throw the first punch?
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#68. In the saddle again, Fire mulled over the commander's trust, prodding it around, like a candy in her mouth, trying to decide whether she believed it.
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#69. Dear Brigan, she thought to herself. People want incongruous, impossible things. Horses do, too.
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#70. Po's been sick, you know." "I'm sorry to hear that," he said, with no expression. "Don't be an ass. He's actually been quite unwell.
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#71. That's interesting," Bitterblue said. "You think a conscience requires fear?
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#73. Roan, near the standard-bearer. And that's his brother beside
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#74. 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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#75. He caught her eye. 'And? I'm jealous-minded and I sleep with too many women.'
Fire's smile grew. 'Luckily for you, I loved you long before either of those things.'
'But you don't love me as much as I love you,' he said. 'Which is what's made me this way.
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#76. Fire sat unbreathing. A life that was an apology for the life of his father: It was a notion she could understand, beyond words and thought. She understood it the way she understood music.
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#77. If he touches you, I'll come in and choke him to death.
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#78. 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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#79. I've always been led to believe that the ultimate goal for an author is the movie deal. Now I understand that the movie deal is merely a MEANS TO A MUCH HIGHER END: NAIL POLISH.
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#80. When a monster stopped behaving like a monster, did it stop being a monster? Did it become something else?
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#81. You're in fine temper," Raffin said.
"Your hair is blue," she snapped back.
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#83. For a moment, it was almost as if they were friends again.
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#84. The only way for you to keep your mind straight is to run from those who would confuse you.
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#85. It has been a hard lesson to learn, that greatness requires suffering.
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#86. Go safely. Go safely, she thought to him. What a silly, empty thing it was to say to anyone, anywhere.
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#88. You're astonishing, Fire," he'd said. "You're a constant source of wonder to me. I'm never more happy than when I've made you happy. Isn't it peculiar?" he'd said, laughing. "Do you really like it, darling?
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#89. Apparently there was such a thing as love at first sight; or love at first spit, anyway.
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#90. From the warmth of her fondness for her horse she constructed a fragile and changeable thing that almost resembled courage. She hoped it would be enough.
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#91. There are no medicines to bring a dead thing back to life.
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#93. Mercy was more frightening than murder, because it was harder.
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#94. [ ... ] But the world doesn't care who wins. It'll go on spinning, no matter how many people are slaughtered tomorrow. No matter if you and I are slaughtered." After a moment, he added, "I almost wish it wouldn't, if we aren't allowed to go spinning with it.
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#95. 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.
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#96. Don't you feel it, the joy of having an effect on everyone and everything simply by being?
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#97. 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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#98. 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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#99. 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.
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#100. Our own story is even more important for us to know than history.
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