source: - Kristin Cashore (2009). “Graceling”, p.137, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The only way for you to keep your mind straight is to run from those who would confuse you.
source: - Kristin Cashore (2009). “Graceling”, p.315, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
I don't want to love you if you're only going to die.
source: - Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.243, Penguin
source: - Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.180, Penguin
Every configuration of people is an entirely new universe unto itself.
source: - Kristin Cashore (2012). “Bitterblue”, p.237, Penguin
Gratitude takes less energy than anger.
source: - Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.192, Penguin
source: - Kristin Cashore (2009). “Graceling”, p.231, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Topics: Men, Fire, Faces, Exasperation
source: - Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.83, Penguin
Topics: Depressing, Lying, Unhappy
It has been a hard lesson to learn, that greatness requires suffering.
Topics: Greatness, Suffering, Lessons, Hard Lessons
Topics: War, Silly, Healing, Commanders, Broken Pieces
Topics: Mother, Trying, Mouths, Katsa, Embroidery
Topics: Feel Better, Long, People, Skye
Topics: Rocks, Grandparent, May
A book that bores me to tears is a book that neglects character building and quality of prose.
Topics: Book, Character, Quality, Character Building
Topics: Book, Writing, Space, Blank Space
Topics: Dark, Night, Gravestone
Topics: Lying, Heart, Worry, True Heart
Topics: Frustration, Letters, Strange, Crackpots
Topics: Way, Towns, Proposal, Marriage Proposal, Objections
Topics: Memories, Disappear, Permission
...when truths disappear, they leave behind blank spaces, and that is also dangerous.
Topics: Space, Disappear, Blank, Blank Space
Topics: Opportunity, Avoiding
Topics: Wise, Fall, Thoughtful
Topics: Queens, Lying, May, Don't Lie To Me, Lie To Me
Topics: Hurt, Queens, Pain, Hurting Yourself, Redundant
Topics: I Like You, Queens, People
That's interesting," Bitterblue said. "You think a conscience requires fear?
Topics: Thinking, Interesting, Said
source: - Kristin Cashore (2009). “Graceling”, p.32, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Topics: Ambition, Risk, Lawlessness
Topics: Beautiful, Stars, Loneliness, Beautiful Creatures
source: - Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.210, Penguin
There's no shame in crawling when one can't walk.
source: - Kristin Cashore (2009). “Graceling”, p.320, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
source: - Kristin Cashore (2009). “Graceling”, p.242, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Topics: Reflection, Fire, Elbows
Topics: Men, Years, Six Year Olds, Katsa, Pulp
source: - Rob Brezsny (2005). “Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings”, p.35, Frog Books
Topics: Sibling, Fire, Together, Sharpening
Topics: Fire, Trying, Mouths, Commanders
Some of the smartest men have a hard time comprehending the obvious.
Topics: Hard Times, Men, Obvious
Circumstances don't always align themselves with human intention.
source: - Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.52, Penguin
Topics: Intention, Circumstances, Humans
I'm not good at love. I'm like a barbed creature. I push everyone I love away.
Topics: Creatures, Pushing Me Away
Topics: Husband, Differences, Giving
Topics: Mean, Little Sister, Mind, Pushing Me Away
Topics: Beautiful, Sadness, Frightening
A man who fights you as he does is no better than an opportunist and no worse than a thug.
source: - Kristin Cashore (2009). “Graceling”, p.141, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
There are no medicines to bring a dead thing back to life.
source: - Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.219, Penguin
Topics: Medicine
Topics: Beautiful, Feel Better, Knowing, Something Beautiful, Clara
In the end, Leck should have stuck to his lies. For it was the truth he almost told that killed him.
Topics: Laughing, Forgive Me, House
Topics: Pain, Eye, Heart, Lied To Me, Graceling
Topics: Thinking, Rhode Island, Islands, Dalai, Lama
source: - Kristin Cashore (2009). “Graceling”, p.134, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Topics: Pain, Thinking, Joy, Katsa, Causing Pain
Your brand of comfort bears some similarity to your tactical offense.
Topics: Comfort, Bears, Similarity, Tactical
What a horrifying notion," he said. "A creature with the power to take over one's mind.
source: - Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.14, Penguin
Garan snorted. "Now that we know about his indigestion, we can torture him with cake.
Topics: Cake, Torture, Indigestion
There will be no yelling at people who are bleeding themselves to unconsciousness.
Topics: Yelling, People, Bleeding, Unconsciousness
Topics: Kindness, Men, Fire, Toothpicks, Laconic
Topics: Monsters, Thanks, Admiration
It was a very hard thing to have crushed the heart, and the hopes, of a friend.
Topics: Heart, Crushed, Hard Things
Topics: Beautiful, Eye, Men, Katsa, Beautiful Eyes
source: - Kristin Cashore (2009). “Graceling”, p.19, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Topics: Winning, Hands, People, Current Generation
And the kings were no better to their own people than they were to each others.
source: - Kristin Cashore (2009). “Graceling”, p.18, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
It's as if when I open myself up to every perception, things create their own focus.
source: - Kristin Cashore (2009). “Graceling”, p.459, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Topics: Focus, Perception, Ifs
When Brocker arrived he took her hands and held them to his face and cried into them.
source: - Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.255, Penguin
source: - Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.77, Penguin
Topics: Wish, Doe, Happens, Wishing For Things
source: - Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.73, Penguin
source: - Kristin Cashore (2009). “Graceling”, p.356, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
source: - Kristin Cashore (2012). “Bitterblue”, p.40, Penguin
source: - Kristin Cashore (2009). “Graceling”, p.317, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
source: - Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.56, Penguin
source: - Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.60, Penguin
Lady Queen," he said, "You've given me all I want. You're the queen a librarian dreams of.
source: - Kristin Cashore (2012). “Bitterblue”, p.304, Hachette UK
Topics: Kissing, Feel Better, Lucky
Topics: Beautiful, Real, Impact, White Shirts
The fellow who tends the greenhouse gardens? Trust me, Lady, you'd let him stake your tomatoes.
source: - Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.108, Penguin
Topics: Garden, Tomatoes, Trust Me, Greenhouses
It humbles me, but it doesn't humiliate me.
source: - Kristin Cashore (2009). “Graceling”, p.182, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Topics: Humiliate
source: - Kristin Cashore (2009). “Graceling”, p.155, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
source: - Kristin Cashore (2009). “Graceling”, p.128, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Topics: Moving, Long Grass, Wind, Katsa
source: - Kristin Cashore (2009). “Graceling”, p.134, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
source: - Kristin Cashore (2009). “Graceling”, p.137, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
You're afraid of your own anger.
source: - Kristin Cashore (2009). “Graceling”, p.123, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Topics: Believe, Mean, Goal, Nail Polish
A king who’s innocent of the things of which he’s guilty?
source: - Kristin Cashore (2009). “Graceling”, p.219, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Raff, what have you done to yourself? Your hair is positively blue.
source: - Kristin Cashore (2009). “Graceling”, p.53, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
source: - Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.197, Penguin
I wanted you to go away, because it hurts to be with you when I can't see you." - Po
Topics: Hurt, Going Away, Wanted, Graceling
source: - Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.93, Penguin
Are you determined to leave me in this world to live without my heart?
source: - Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.72, Penguin
Topics: Heart, World, Determined
source: - Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.92, Penguin
Topics: Mother, Lying, Spring, Hunger Strike
source: - Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.138, Penguin
Topics: Baby, Grief, Eye, These Eyes
source: - Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.278, Penguin
Topics: Beautiful, Two, Interesting
source: - Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.278, Penguin
source: - Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.101, Penguin
Topics: Fall, Sky, Pieces, Falling To Pieces, Well Said
A consciousness was like a face you saw once and forever recognized.
source: - Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.133, Penguin
It's hard to wake from a nightmare when the nightmare is real.
source: - Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.99, Penguin