Kristin Cashore Quotes: 20

• 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.

  Graceling

• 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.

  Graceling

• Perhaps I can stay by the fire and mend your socks and scream if I hear any strange noises.

  Graceling

• There will be no yelling at people who are bleeding themselves to unconsciousness.

  Fire

• You're the queen, and it's the queen's house, and whatever Brigan may accomplish, he's highly unlikely ever to be queen.

  Fire

• Well then,"Roen said briskly, "are you sleeping?" "Yes." "Come now. A mother can tell when her son lies. Are you eating?" "No,"Brigan said gravely. "I've not eaten in two months. It's a hunger strike to protest the spring flooding in the south." "Gracious,"Roen said, reaching for the fruit bowl. "Have an apple, dear.

  Fire

• 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.

  Graceling

• 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.

  Fire

• 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.

  Graceling

• 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.

  Fire

• 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.

  Bitterblue

• 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.

  Bitterblue

• In the end, Leck should have stuck to his lies. For it was the truth he almost told that killed him.

  Graceling

• Katsa and Po were trying to drown each other and, judging from their hoots of laughter, enjoying it immensely.

  Bitterblue

• 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.

  Graceling

• To Garan's credit, the treatment of Dellian prisoners did change after that. One particularly laconic man, after a session in which Fire learned positively nothing, thanked her for it specifically. "Best dungeons I ever been in,"he said, chewing on a toothpick."Wonderful,"Garan grumbled when he had gone. "We'll grow a reputation for our kindness to lawbreakers.

  Fire

• The only way for you to keep your mind straight is to run from those who would confuse you.

  Graceling

• 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.

  Fire

• 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.

  Fire

• 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?

  Bitterblue