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Kristin Cashore

"But all I feel is impatience, fury for the opposition I anticipate and the lies I'm going to have to tell to make it happen, and frustration that I can't even take a walk without them sending someone to hover. Attack me," she said. "I beg your pardon, Lady Queen?" "You should attack me, and we'll see what he does. He's probably quite bored--it'll be a relief to him." "Mightn't he run me through with his sword?" "Oh." Bitterblue chuckled. "Yes, I suppose he might. That would be a shame." "I'm gratified that you think so," said Giddon dryly."

-- Kristin Cashore

#Running Quotes #Queens Quotes #Lying Quotes

“Commas, like nuns, often travel in pairs.”

Source : Mary Norris (2015). “Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen”, p.86, W. W. Norton & Company
“Dynamic ecstasy is absolute romanticism , absolute heroism . And here I return to my point. From my point of view, after the catastrophe which we feel and think is universal, a catastrophe resulting from an excess of useless dynamism of useless progress, of useless realism, of useless technology, after this an unattainable democracy is to be reached through the conception and realization of a new romanticism.”

Source : "Heroic Reason" by Juan Ramon Jimenez (p. 231), 1957.
“I like to think of Everest as a great mountaineering challenge, and when you've got people just streaming up the mountain - well, many of them are just climbing it to get their name in the paper, really.”
“Western clothes are our everyday wardrobe. But I do not think that it makes much of a difference anymore whether you are Japanese or American or European.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“White people really deal more with God and black people with Jesus.”
“I forgot how it feel like to have the top of my foot hurt so bad from kicking people on the face...”
“Perhaps the most difficult thing is shooting scenes set 6,000 feet up in the mountains of Mexico.”
“Writing is the hardest work in the world. I have been a bricklayer and a truck driver, and I tell you â€“ as if you haven't been told a million times already â€“ that writing is harder. Lonelier. And nobler and more enriching.”

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