Kristin Cashore Quotes

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.

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.

It humbles me, but it doesn't humiliate me.

She would like to restrain from cruelty and receive no admiration for it.

Tell me what I can do to help you feel better." Well...I always like when you kiss me... "Do you?" You're good at it. "Well, that's lucky. Because I'll always be kissing you.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

It's not reasonable to love people who are only going to die.

I know this is war, but the rest of us are trying to pretend it's a party.

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

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.

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.

What was the purpose of a woman monster?It came out in a whisper. ‘What am I for?

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.

Fire looked into his quiet eyes, touched his dear familiar face and considered the question.

For a moment, it was almost as if they were friends again.

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.

I want to have the heart and mind of a queen, ” she whispered. “I want it more than anything. But I’m only pretending. I can’t find the feeling of it inside

A monster that refused, sometimes, to behave like a monster. When a monster stopped behaving like a monster, did it stop being a monster? Did it become something else?

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.

Waste is Criminal.

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?

Love doesn't measure that way... you may blame me for your feelings, but it isn't fair to blame me for how you've chosen to behave.

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

Now that we know about his indigestion, we can torture him with cake.

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.

Then come here, " he said, a bit redundantly, as he had already pulled her with him into an armchair and curled her up in his arms. "Tell me what I can do to help you feel be

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.

If we're to be judged by our parents and grandparents, then we all may as well impale ourselves upon bits of rock.

Well. I always like it when you kiss me.Do you?You're good at it.Well, that's lucky, because I'll always be kissing you.

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.

Everyone wants a little bit of something beautiful.

Are you determined to leave me in this world to live without my heart?’ Archer asked. ‘Because that’s what you very nearly did.

Your horse is named Small.Yes.Mine is named Big.-Fire and Brigan

If we knew a person was going to die, we’d hold harder to the memories.

It's only water, " she said."Tell that to a drowning man, " Giddon said.

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.

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.

Tell me what I can do to help you feel better."Well...I always like when you kiss me..."Do you?"You're good at it. "Well, that's lucky. Because I'll always be kissing you.

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.

Who hit you?""Clara.""Clara!""She whaled me one in return for upsetting you. Well, at least, that was the main reason.