Quotes from Kristin Cashore

What a horrifying notion," he said. "A creature with the power to take over one's mind.

Wonderful," Garan grumbled when he'd gone. "We'll grow a reputation for our kindness to lawbreakers.

My life is an apology for the life of my father.

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.

There are no medicines to bring a dead thing back to life.

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.

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.

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

I'm not good at love. I'm like a barbed creature. I push everyone I love away.

I push everyone I love away." He shrugged. "I don't mind you pushing me away if it means you love me, little sister.

Part of avoiding thoughts about something was not encouraging opportunities for that something to makes itself felt.

Love is stupid. It has nothing to do with reason. You love whomever you love.

You can't help whom you love, Lady. Nor can you know what it's liable to cause you to do.

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.

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

Everyone wants a bit of something beautiful.

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.

Dear Brigan, she thought to herself. People want incongruous, impossible things. Horses do, too.

Lady Queen," he said, "You've given me all I want. You're the queen a librarian dreams of.

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.

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.

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.

When a monster stopped behaving like a monster, did it stop being a monster? Did it become something else?

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.