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And is it the way, in these kingdoms you fell from, for a woman to join forces with an unnatural child who's murdered her friend? Or is that expectation unique to you, and your infinitesimal heart? -- Kristin Cashore
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. -- Kristin Cashore
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 -- Kristin Cashore
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. -- Kristin Cashore
Now we just need to find someone who is close to the king but is really a spy for Mydogg."
"That should be easy. I could probably shoot an arrow out the window and hit one. -- Kristin Cashore
Katsa now sat calmly on the stomach of her vanquished foe. "He was handsome," said said.
Po moaned. "Was he beat-to-a-pulp handsome, or perhaps just push-down-a-flight-of-stairs handsome?"
"I would not push a seventy six year old man down a flight of stairs," said Katsa indignantly. -- Kristin Cashore
Brigan spun around to face the man, swearing with as much as exasperation and fury as Fire had ever heard anyone swear. The man scuttled away in alarm. -- Kristin Cashore
I don't know how it'll be between us Thiel. I don't know how we'll learn to trust each other again, and I know you're not well enough to help me with every matter I face. But I miss you and I'd like to try again. -- Kristin Cashore
She wanted to cause him pain for taking a place in her heart she wouldn't have given him if she'd known the truth. -- Kristin Cashore
Everyone wants a bit of something beautiful. -- Kristin Cashore
Alone in the forest, Katsa sat on a stump and cried. She cried like a person whose heart is broken and wondered how, when two people loved each other, there could be such a broken heart. -- Kristin Cashore
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 -- Kristin Cashore
What's the true reason I've decided I trust him? Certainly his Council work recommends him, his choice of friends. But isn't it just as much the timbre of his voice? I like to hear him say words. I trust the deep way he says, 'Yes, Lady Queen. -- Kristin Cashore
Madlen came to sit beside her on the bed. "Lady Queen," she said with her own particular brand of rough gentleness. "It is not the job of the child to protect her mother. It's the mother's job to protect the child. By allowing your mother to protect you, you gave her a gift. Do you understand me? -- Kristin Cashore
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
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. -- Kristin Cashore
Part of avoiding thoughts about something was not encouraging opportunities for that something to makes itself felt. -- Kristin Cashore
Some people had too much power and too much cruelty to live. Some people were too horrible, no matter if you loved them; no matter that you had to make yourself terrible too, in order to stop them. Some things just had to be done.
I forgive myself, thought Fire. Today, I forgive myself. -- Kristin Cashore
Why are you still here?" she asked. "Shouldn't you be in a cave somewhere inspiring people? -- Kristin Cashore
Roan, near the standard-bearer. And that's his brother beside -- Kristin Cashore
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
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. -- Kristin Cashore
Gratitude takes less energy than anger. -- Kristin Cashore
I'm mostly unflappable, but you've flapped me, monster lady. -- Kristin Cashore
I told him I'm not going to marry you and hang on to you like a barnacle, just to keep you to myself and stop you loving anyone else. -- Kristin Cashore
I've grown quite fond of your warhorse Big. Will you give her to me? -- Kristin Cashore
Your eyes are beautiful, he said, and she felt warm suddenly, warm in the sun that dappled through the treetops and rested on them in patches. -- Kristin Cashore
I was doing science," Giddon said. "He threw a bean."
"I was testing the impact of a bean upon water," Bann said.
"That's not even a real thing."
"Perhaps I'll test the impact of a bean upon your beautiful white shirt. -- Kristin Cashore
And of course she understood now why her body wanted to run whenever he appeared. It was a correct instinct, for there was nothing to be got from this but sadness. -- Kristin Cashore
I push everyone I love away."
He shrugged.
"I don't mind you pushing me away if it means you love me, little sister. -- Kristin Cashore
I hear you're supposed to be good at manipulating people. Try a little harder to make me like you, all right? I'm the queen. Your life will be nicer if I like you. -- Kristin Cashore
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. -- Kristin Cashore
As he left to answer the call, she heard him exclaiming in wonderment on the rise. Rocks, Nash. Is that a river mare out there? Do you see her? Have you ever laid eyes on a more gorgeous creature? -- Kristin Cashore
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. -- Kristin Cashore
If we knew a person was going to die, we'd hold harder to the memories."
Fire corrected him, in a whisper. "The good memories. -- Kristin Cashore
She knew he was angry, but she couldn't stop laughing. "Forgive me, Po. I was only trying to get your attention."
"And I suppose it never occurs to you to start small. If I told you my roof needed rebuilding, you'd start by knocking down the house. -- Kristin Cashore
I'll give you a dream," he whispered to her. "A wonderful dream. I won't tell you -- Kristin Cashore
I love you," he said. "You're more dear to my heart than I ever knew anyone else can be. And I've made you cry; and there I'll stop."
She was crying, but not because of his words. It was because of a certainty she refused to consider while she sat before him. -- Kristin Cashore
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
Sneaking was a kind of deceit. So was disguise. Just past midnight, wearing dark trousers and Fox's hood, the queen snuck out of her own rooms and stepped into a world of stories and lies. -- Kristin Cashore
Are you determined to leave me in this world to live without my heart? -- Kristin Cashore
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
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. -- Kristin Cashore
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
There was one she kept reaching for, with a copper-red varnish, and a clarity like the point of a star, precise and loansome, reminding her, somehow, of home. This is the one, she thought to herself. -- Kristin Cashore
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
The kingdoms' people were at the mercy of the natures of those who rose to be their rulers. It was a gamble, and the current generation did not make for a winning hand. -- Kristin Cashore
It was a very hard thing to have crushed the heart, and the hopes, of a friend. -- Kristin Cashore
Your horse is named Small.
Yes.
Mine is named Big.
-Fire and Brigan -- Kristin Cashore
You're beautiful this morning," Archer said, stopping before her, kissing her nose. "You're impossibly sweet in my shirt."
That might be but she felt like death. She would gladly make the trade; how blissful it would be to feel impossibly sweet and look like death. -- Kristin Cashore
Apparently there was such a thing as love at first sight; or love at first spit, anyway. -- Kristin Cashore
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. -- Kristin Cashore
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? -- Kristin Cashore
A king who's innocent
of the things of which he's guilty? -- Kristin Cashore
Something caught in her throat at this second thanks, when she'd threatened him so brutally. When you're a monster, she thought, you are thanked and praised for not behaving like a monster. She would like to restrain from cruelty and receive no admiration for it. -- Kristin Cashore
When you're a monster, you are thanked and praised for not being a monster. -- Kristin Cashore
When a monster stopped behaving like a monster, did it stop being a monster? Did it become something else? -- Kristin Cashore
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
Perhaps I can stay by the fire and mend your socks and scream if I hear any strange noises. -- Kristin Cashore
Generally she avoided mirrors. It embarrassed her to lose her own breath at the sight of herself. -- Kristin Cashore
For a group of people who claimed to be concerned for her safety, they did seem to have developed rather a habit of encouraging uprisings against monarchs. -- Kristin Cashore
They would assume she was a boy, because in her plain trousers and hood she looked like one, and because when people were attacked it never occurred to anyone that it might have been a girl. -- Kristin Cashore
Hidden yourself in a hole and dared to burden no one with your grievous friendship? I will have friends, Katsa. I will have a life, even though I carry this burden. -- Kristin Cashore
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
Why did hatred so often make men think of rape? And there was the flaw in her monster power. As often as the power of her beauty made one man easy to control, it made another man uncontrollable and mad. -- Kristin Cashore
What was the purpose of a woman monster?
It came out in a whisper. 'What am I for? -- Kristin Cashore
My books are likely to contain food stains and rings from my tea cups. A book is to be lived with and used. -- Kristin Cashore
She couldn't have him, and there was no mistaking it. She could never be his wife. She could not 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. No matter how she loved him. -- Kristin Cashore
How unjust then to meet that person you love, and be kept away from them only because ones bed is made of hay , and the other, feathers. -- Kristin Cashore
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. -- Kristin Cashore
It would be a safe place for the sharing of burdens and capturing memories before they disappeared. It would be called the Ministry of Stories and Truth and it would help her kingdom heal. -- Kristin Cashore
[ ... ] 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. -- Kristin Cashore
If we're to be judged by our parents and grandparents, then we all may as well impale ourselves upon jagged bits of rock. -- Kristin Cashore
The fact that at the moment the distinction is being made, a young adult, as opposed to an adult, is the one reading it. In other words, I don't entirely believe in the distinction. A great book is a great book, and it's impossible to say what part of a person is going to connect to it. -- Kristin Cashore
Prince Brigan. And where's your Lady?"
"In her history lesson. She went without complaint and I've been trying to prepare myself for what it might mean. Either she's planning to bribe me about something or she's ill. -- Kristin Cashore
Alone with Giddon again, Bitterblue considered him, rather liking the mud streaks on his face. He looked like a handsome sunken rowboat. -- Kristin Cashore
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. -- Kristin Cashore
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
Circumstances don't always align themselves with human intention. -- Kristin Cashore
Fire looked into his quiet eyes, touched his dear familiar face and considered the question. -- Kristin Cashore
Po looked at her, but he didn't see her. His eyes snapped, silver ice and gold fire. -- Kristin Cashore
I wonder if it's meant to be punishment for something one can't forgive oneself for. Or an external expression, Lady Queen, of an internal pain? Or perhaps it's a way to realise that you actually do want to stay alive. -- Kristin Cashore
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
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
It's only water," she said.
"Tell that to a drowning man," Giddon said. -- Kristin Cashore
Giddon was younger even than Raffin, strong, and a good rider. -- Kristin Cashore
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. -- Kristin Cashore
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
Do you understand? I don't want you to do a thing if you don't understand it. -- Kristin Cashore
Then she'll know I'll want to knock her senseless if she so much as looks at me. -- Kristin Cashore
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. -- Kristin Cashore
Your brothers are the foolish ones for not seeing the strength in beautiful things. -- Kristin Cashore
Things don't ever stay the same. Natural beginnings come to natural or unnatural ends. -- Kristin Cashore
It seemed to Fire it was rarely enough one knew a person one wished to marry. How unjust then to meet that person, and be kept from it because one's bed was made of hay and not feathers. -- Kristin Cashore
Your brand of comfort bears some similarity to your tactical offense. -- Kristin Cashore
Some of the smartest men have a hard time comprehending the obvious. -- Kristin Cashore
It hurts when you strike me - " "It hurts you for only an instant, and besides, if I hit you it's only because you've let me, because you're too busy wrenching my arm out of its socket to care that I'm hitting you in the stomach. -- Kristin Cashore
I think.' she said, 'that sometimes we don't feel the things that we are. But others can feel them. -- Kristin Cashore
It's part of their monstrous power. They stun you with their beauty, and then they overwhelm your mind and make you stupid. You must learn to guard your mind against them, as I have. -- Kristin Cashore
If I wanted to stun anyone at dinner, I'd hit them in the face. -- Kristin Cashore
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. -- Kristin Cashore
It's hard to wake from a nightmare when the nightmare is real. -- Kristin Cashore
Fire's own laughter was a balm to her heart. -- Kristin Cashore
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) -- Kristin Cashore
I sense people when they're near me, thinking and feeling and moving around, their bodies, their physical energy. -- Kristin Cashore
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. -- Kristin Cashore
There are no medicines to bring a dead thing back to life. -- Kristin Cashore
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. -- Kristin Cashore
I have no doubt that you are more than capable of bringing the Monsean queen and my son and the rest of my sons and a hundred Nanderan kittens through an onslaught of howling raiders if you chose to. -- Kristin Cashore
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
In the end, Leck should have stuck to his lies. For it was the truth he almost told that killed him. -- Kristin Cashore
For a moment, it was almost as if they were friends again. -- Kristin Cashore
If her enemies were Brigan's friends and her friends were Brigan's enemies, then the two of them could walk through the world arm in arm and never be hit by arrows again. -- Kristin Cashore
Living is too hard right now. Dying is easy. Let me die. -- Kristin Cashore
Our own story is even more important for us to know than history. -- Kristin Cashore
I'm not good at love. I'm like a barbed creature. I push everyone I love away. -- Kristin Cashore
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
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. -- Kristin Cashore
Go safely. Go safely, she thought to him. What a silly, empty thing it was to say to anyone, anywhere. -- Kristin Cashore
Always one of the trials of a new wound: old wounds like to rise up and start hurting again, too. -- Kristin Cashore
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. -- Kristin Cashore
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
Men are daft around women, incautious and boastful. -- Kristin Cashore
Katsa kicked off her shoes, hitched up her skirt, and climbed into the fountain, sighing as the cold water ran between her toes and lapped at her ankles. it was a great improvement over her shoes. She would not put them on again tonight. -- Kristin Cashore
I was only testing that you were awake and in your right mind. The sight of you taking a nap against the bookshelf doesn't inspire confidence. -- Kristin Cashore
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
His name was Death. It was pronounced to rhyme with "teeth", but Bitterblue liked to mispronounce it by accident on occassion. -- Kristin Cashore
I don't think any child could see her father beginning to love someone else and not feel jealousy. -- Kristin Cashore
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
He brought her fingers to his mouth, kissed her knuckles, and made a show of inspecting her hand, as if he'd never seen it before. -- Kristin Cashore
You're in fine temper," Raffin said.
"Your hair is blue," she snapped back. -- Kristin Cashore
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. -- Kristin Cashore
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. -- Kristin Cashore
Everybody was strange. In a fit of frustration, she scratched out strange and wrote the word CRACKPOTS in big letters. -- Kristin Cashore
That's how memory works ... Things disappear without your permission, then come back again without your permission. -- Kristin Cashore
We're going to win this war, you know, now that our army's together. But the world doesn't care who wins. It'll go on spinning, no matter how many people are slaughtered." After a moment, he added. "I almost wish it wouldn't, if we aren't allowed to go on spinning with it. -- Kristin Cashore
People want incongruous, impossible things. -- Kristin Cashore
The Queen of Monsea, in trousers and short hair, looking for all the world like a miniature pirate. -- Kristin Cashore
Would you please do me the honor of telling me WHAT THE BLAZES IS GOING ON? -- Kristin Cashore
I'm bored to death. Perhaps I should pillage one of my neighbors for my own amusement. It seems to work for Drowden. -- Kristin Cashore
Great! He has indigestion, so let's torture him with cake. -- Kristin Cashore
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? -- Kristin Cashore
Dear Brigan, she thought to herself. People want incongruous, impossible things. Horses do, too. -- Kristin Cashore
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
You're the queen, and it's the queen's house, and whatever Brigan may accomplish, he's highly unlikely ever to be queen. -- Kristin Cashore
That's interesting," Bitterblue said. "You think a conscience requires fear? -- Kristin Cashore
I'm as old as both of you," she said, even though she suspected she
wasn't, "and I'm smarter, and I can probably fight as well as you can. -- Kristin Cashore
Not all people who inspire devotion are monsters. -- Kristin Cashore
A man who fights you as he does is no better than an opportunist and no worse than a thug. -- Kristin Cashore
Ror stood and began to stride around the room. Katsa rose woodenly, in respect for a rising king, but the queen pulled her back down. If we stood every time he marched around we'd always be standing -- Kristin Cashore
She could control with parts of her body too. She could control some people with her face alone, or with her face and a suggestion made in a certain tone of voice- a voice of pretended promises. Or with her hair. Her power was in all of those things. -- Kristin Cashore
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
Everyone was willing to take some small risk to lessen the damage of their ambition and disorder and lawlessness. -- Kristin Cashore
Waste is criminal. I'll use the power I have to undo what Cansrel did. I'll use it to fight for the Dells. -- Kristin Cashore
A quote from 'Fire' where Fire projected a thought to her best friend Archer:
Love doesn't measure that way, she [Fire] thought to him [Archer]. And you may blame me for your feelings, but it isn't fair to blame me for how you've chosen to behave. -- Kristin Cashore
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. -- Kristin Cashore
Saf keeps a vast range of bullies on hand at all times. -- Kristin Cashore
She didn't want to go far, just out of the trees so she could see the stars. They always eased her loneliness. She thought of them as beautiful creatures, burning and cold; each solitary, and bleak, and silent like her. -- Kristin Cashore
You won't even take your bow? Are you planning to throttle a moose with your bare hands, then?"
"I've a knife in my boot," she said, and then wondered, for a moment, if she could throttle a moose with her bare hands. -- Kristin Cashore
Archer always had enough jealousy of his own to turn me off to the feeling of it. -- Kristin Cashore
I don't want to love you if you're only going to die. -- Kristin Cashore
And what was it about the dark that made her question things she'd never questioned before, in the day. -- Kristin Cashore
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
Then she marched to the pillows and beat them mercilessly until they lay puffed out like obedient clouds. -- Kristin Cashore
But everyone has some kind of power to hurt people. -- Kristin Cashore
Hanna's announced her intentions to marry Archer -- Kristin Cashore
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
The poacher's murderer was a man after Archer's own heart, for Archer also didn't like men to hurt Fire or make her acquaintance. -- Kristin Cashore
Normal. She wasn't normal. A girl Graced with killing, a royal thug? A girl who didn't want the husbands Randa pushed on her, perfectly handsome and thoughtful men, a girl who panicked at the thought of a baby at her breast, or clinging to her ankles. -- Kristin Cashore
When I stopped fighting all the things around me, all the things around me started to come together. All the activity, and the landscape, and the ground and the sky, and even people's thoughts. Everything's trying to form one picture. And I can feel my place in it like I couldn't before. -- Kristin Cashore
It's not fair. It's not fair, she cried, knowing it was a child's argument but not caring, because being childish did not make it untrue. -- Kristin Cashore
Garan snorted. Now that we know about his indigestion, we can torture him with cake. -- Kristin Cashore
If I'd been trying to kill him, he'd be dead. -- Kristin Cashore
The girl entered the room, not looking at Fire, glaring mutinously at the feather duster in her own hand. Still, at least she had come. Some of them scurried away, pretending not to hear. -- Kristin Cashore
You cannot measure love by a scale of degrees. -- Kristin Cashore
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
Ideas were growing in all directions and dimensions; they were becoming a sculpture, or a castle. And then everyone left her, to return to their own affairs; and she was alone, and empty and unbelieving again. -- Kristin Cashore
Perhaps it's the promise of your angry face that keeps me misbehaving,' he said. 'You're so beautiful when you're angry. -- Kristin Cashore
It hurt her eyes, almost, Ror City; and it didn't surprise her that Po should come from a place that shone. -- Kristin Cashore
How acutely sometimes the presence or absence of people mattered -- Kristin Cashore
When Brocker arrived he took her hands and held them to his face and cried into them. -- Kristin Cashore
First, everyone's going to die. Second, love is stupid. It has nothing to do with reason. You love whomever you love. Against all reason I loved my father. Did you love yours? -- Kristin Cashore
I wanted you to go away, because it hurts to be with you when I can't see you. - Po -- Kristin Cashore
Don't you feel it, the joy of having an effect on everyone and everything simply by being? -- Kristin Cashore
Love is stupid. It has nothing to do with reason. You love whomever you love. -- Kristin Cashore
We need an ally of Mydogg's or Gentian's pretending to be among the most loyal allies of the king,' Brigan said. 'Shouldn't be so hard, really. If I shot an arrow out the window I'd probably hit on. -- Kristin Cashore
He leaned heavily on the desk now, as if danger had strengthened him before and its lack now made him weak. -- Kristin Cashore
Could she be his lover and still belong to herself? -- Kristin Cashore
The more I see and hear, the more I realize how much I don't know. -- Kristin Cashore
And the kings were no better to their own people than they were to each others. -- Kristin Cashore
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
Well, none of it would ever end if she was too afraid for it to begin. -- Kristin Cashore
Maybe it was for the best that she'd been so foolish, for if she'd known how hard this would be, perhaps she wouldn't have done it. -- Kristin Cashore
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. -- Kristin Cashore
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
She opened the door behind him, slipped through, and shut herself in, then leaned against the wall of her hallway for a moment, oddly depressed at how easy that had been. It seemed to her that it shouldn't be so easy to make a man into a fool. -- Kristin Cashore
I'm afraid of plenty of things," he said. "I just do them anyway. -- Kristin Cashore
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 -- Kristin Cashore
courtyards at midnight, disguised. And besides, -- Kristin Cashore
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
It has been a hard lesson to learn, that greatness requires suffering. -- Kristin Cashore
She had thought herself trapped in a place outside the ordinary feeling lives of people; she had not noticed how many other people were trapped in that same place. -- Kristin Cashore
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
I'm suspicious of the notion of a single book that would benefit everyone to read. -- Kristin Cashore
Every configuration of people is an entirely new universe unto itself. -- Kristin Cashore
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
He was still glowering into the distance, as if he expected the murderer to pop up from behind a boulder and wave. -- Kristin Cashore
That's not even a thing. -- Kristin Cashore
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. -- Kristin Cashore
Lady Queen," he said, "You've given me all I want. You're the queen a librarian dreams of. -- Kristin Cashore
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
My life is an apology for the life of my father. -- Kristin Cashore
No man is infallible. -- Kristin Cashore
This is a trial about watermelons! Watermelons are invertebrate creatures!' cried Quall. -- Kristin Cashore
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. -- Kristin Cashore
You're crying."
"I'm not."
"Right," he said mildly. "I suppose you got rained on. -- Kristin Cashore
She crossed the room to him, put her arms around him, clung to him, turning her face to the side, learning all at once that it was awkward to show a person all of one's love when one's nose was broken. -- Kristin Cashore
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. -- Kristin Cashore
I thought it was supposed to be impossible to sneak up on you. Eyes of a hawk and ears of a wolf and all. -- Kristin Cashore
Great seas," he said.
"What do you want?"
He held the candle up to her face.
"Po, what do you want?"
"She did a far better job than I would've done. -- Kristin Cashore
If he touches you, I'll come in and choke him to death. -- Kristin Cashore
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
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. -- Kristin Cashore
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 -- Kristin Cashore
He never tried to own me, Brigan. Roen said that Cansrel could never see a beautiful thing without wanting to possess it. But he did not try to possess me. He let me be my own. -- Kristin Cashore
It seems to me that a fair number of people are happy to be as cruel as their power allows, -- Kristin Cashore
Not all sons were like their fathers. A son chose the man he would be.
Not all daughters were like their fathers. A daughter monster chose the monster she would be. -- Kristin Cashore
Death pulled Lovejoy against his chest and held him tight, gripping both cat and book as if he expected someone to try to take them from him. -- Kristin Cashore
Katsa and Po were trying to drown each other and, judging from their hoots of laughter, enjoying it immensely. -- Kristin Cashore
Truths are dangerous," he said.
"Then why are you writing them in a book?"
"To catch them between the pages," said Teddy, "and trap them before they disappear. -- Kristin Cashore
Ivan had contrived somehow in the dark of night to replace every watermelon in the watermelon patch with a gravestone, and every gravestone in the engraver's lot with a watermelon -- Kristin Cashore
He made her drunk, this man made her drunk; and every time his eyes flashed into hers she could not breathe. -- Kristin Cashore
I forgive myself...today I forgive myself -- Kristin Cashore
She hadn't expected to have such an immediate opportunity to practice containing her temper. -- Kristin Cashore
He didn't ask what she was thinking, he didn't intrude; he would wait until she wanted to tell him. -- Kristin Cashore
And," he continued, his strange smile gleaming, "as I see it, our hearts are not so different in size. I murdered my father. You murdered yours. Is that something you did with a large heart? -- Kristin Cashore
There are bears in the mountains, -- Kristin Cashore
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? -- Kristin Cashore
What man can hate or love well when he is drugged? -- Kristin Cashore
She's sleeping now, happy as a kitten in a patch of sun. -- Kristin Cashore
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
Waste is Criminal. -- Kristin Cashore
I truly thought I might hurt that man," he said, "very badly."
"I didn't know you were capable of such bad temper."
"Apparently I am. -- Kristin Cashore
How strange it was to have the power to cause others to feel something she herself did not feel; and then catch the hint of it in their collective minds, and begin to feel it herself. -- Kristin Cashore
Raff, what have you done to yourself? Your hair is positively blue. -- Kristin Cashore
My range for you is...broader than most. -- Kristin Cashore
It's as if when I open myself up to every perception, things create their own focus. -- Kristin Cashore
And she would protect him as fiercely, if it were ever his need- if a fight ever became too much for him or if he needed shelter, or food, or a fire in the rain. Or anything she could provide. She would protect him from anything. -- Kristin Cashore
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. -- Kristin Cashore
Katsa and Po had their arms around each other. It was difficult to tell if they were still wrestling or if the kissing had begun. -- Kristin Cashore
Archer wouldn't consider her allowance of the guard to be evidence of the powers of rational argument. He'd take it as proof that she was in love with whichever of her guards was the most handsome. -- Kristin Cashore
There will be no yelling at people who are bleeding themselves to unconsciousness. -- Kristin Cashore
My favorite genre is Beautifully Written Books of Any Genre. Could we make that a genre? -- Kristin Cashore
She would thump them both, and she would apologize to neither. -- Kristin Cashore
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. -- Kristin Cashore
She wondered if a person could be powerful, but inside be broken into pieces, and shaking, all the time. -- Kristin Cashore
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. -- Kristin Cashore
He thinks we're made of money. -- Kristin Cashore
And he knew nothing of her, if he thought she desired friends -- Kristin Cashore
The only way for you to keep your mind straight is to run from those who would confuse you. -- Kristin Cashore
Brigan had remembered his coat, a fine long coat that Fire liked, because Brigan was wearing it, and Brigan was quick and strong, and always seemed comfortable whatever he was wearing. -- Kristin Cashore
It was just that she had the need to tell him something honest, something honest and unhappy, because cheerful lies tonight were too depressing and too sharp, turning in on her like pins -- Kristin Cashore
She decided to keep her mouth shut until the map arrived, to prevent herself from betraying the stratospheric heights of her irritability. -- Kristin Cashore
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
Who hit you?"
"Clara."
"Clara!"
"She whaled me one in return for upsetting you. Well, at least, that was the main reason. -- Kristin Cashore
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
Mercy was more frightening than murder, because it was harder. -- Kristin Cashore
What a horrifying notion," he said. "A creature with the power to take over one's mind. -- Kristin Cashore
In the morning, coming awake was like drowning. -- Kristin Cashore
Children are geniuses. -- Kristin Cashore
I wouldn't force your feelings from you, if you didn't want to share them. -- Kristin Cashore
I don't understand your book. Isn't every book a book of words? -- Kristin Cashore
A book that bores me to tears is a book that neglects character building and quality of prose. -- Kristin Cashore
There isn't a simple person anywhere in this world. -- Kristin Cashore
Everyone wants a little bit of something beautiful. -- Kristin Cashore
Location: Amsterdam, Where Fire Is Called Vlam -- Kristin Cashore
Propelled by nothing more than a drab sense of duty not to die if she didn't have to, Fire turned [...] -- Kristin Cashore
I'll give myself to you however you'll take me,' he said, so simply that Katsa found she wasn't embarrassed. -- Kristin Cashore
There's no shame in crawling when one can't walk. -- Kristin Cashore
She groped forward, hands and feet, in search of darkness, distance and solitude. -- Kristin Cashore
She had learned propriety, which was the same as saying she had learned to trust only herself. -- Kristin Cashore
The power of the rumor mill, if you could feel it as I do, would boggle your mind. -- Kristin Cashore
Why does everybody throw every troublesome thing into the river? -- Kristin Cashore
You're afraid of your own anger. -- Kristin Cashore
Thiel, tall, troubled, bewildered -- Kristin Cashore
Have you ridden over anyone you shouldn't? -- Kristin Cashore
She must learn who he was, so that she could know what do do with him. -- Kristin Cashore
I can't know your feelings", he said ,"if you don't know them yourself. -- Kristin Cashore
If she was suggesting she was too wise with the weight of her experience to fall prey to infatuation - well, the disproof was sitting before her in the form of a gray-eyed prince with a thoughtful set to his mouth that she found quite distracting. -- Kristin Cashore
We are not made of money. -- Kristin Cashore
A consciousness was like a face you saw once and forever recognized. -- Kristin Cashore
I'd like to restrain from cruelty and not be thanked." ~ Katsa -- Kristin Cashore
Watch for the blue-eyed green-eyed one," they would whisper to guests. "She killed her cousin, with one strike. Because -- Kristin Cashore
The fellow who tends the greenhouse gardens? Trust me, Lady, you'd let him stake your tomatoes. -- Kristin Cashore
