Quotes from Kristin Cashore, Graceling

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.

He leaned heavily on the desk now, as if danger had strengthened him before and its lack now made him weak.

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?

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.

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

You're afraid of your own anger.