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Do you understand? I don't want you to do a thing if you don't understand it.
Kristin Cashore
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Kristin Cashore
Age: 48
Born: 1976
Born: June 10
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Boston
Massachusetts
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Thing
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Katsa turned to Po with tears in her eyes. 'He'll be so angry.' 'He won't stay angry forever.' 'Won't he?' she said. 'People do sometimes.' 'Do they?' he said. 'Reasonable people? I hope that's not true.' Katsa gave him a funny look, but didn't answer. Resumed hugging herself and kicking things.
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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.
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I've liked you better when Katsa's around, Giddon said. She's so rotten to me that you seem positively pleasant in contrast.
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She knew he was angry, but she couldn't stop laughing. Forgive me, Po. I was only trying to get your attention. And I suppose it never occurs to you to start small. If I told you my roof needed rebuilding, you'd start by knocking down the house.
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Normal. She wasn't normal. A girl Graced with killing, a royal thug? A girl who didn't want the husbands Randa pushed on her, perfectly handsome and thoughtful men, a girl who panicked at the thought of a baby at her breast, or clinging to her ankles.
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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?
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I don't understand your book. Isn't every book a book of words?
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