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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.
Kristin Cashore
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Kristin Cashore
Age: 48
Born: 1976
Born: June 10
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The only way for you to keep your mind straight is to run from those who would confuse you.
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Some people had too much power and too much cruelty to live. Some people were too horrible, no matter if you loved them no matter that you had to make yourself terrible too, in order to stop them. Some things just had to be done. I forgive myself, thought Fire. Today, I forgive myself.
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A man who fights you as he does is no better than an opportunist and no worse than a thug.
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When a monster stopped behaving like a monster, did it stop being a monster? Did it become something else?
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She cried like a person whose heart is broken and wondered how, when two people loved each other, there could be such a broken heart.
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And you may blame me for your feelings, but it isn't fair to blame me for how you've chosen to behave.
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And of course she understood now why her body wanted to run whenever he appeared. It was a correct instinct, for there was nothing to be got from this but sadness.
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People want incongruous, impossible things.
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I push everyone I love away. He shrugged. I don't mind you pushing me away if it means you love me, little sister.
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Brigan spun around to face the man, swearing with as much as exasperation and fury as Fire had ever heard anyone swear. The man scuttled away in alarm.
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What she really loved was to hang over the edge and watch the bow of the ship slice through the waves. She loved it especially when the waves were high and the ship rose and fell, or when it was snowing and the flakes stung her face.
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You’re crying.” “I’m not.” “Right,” he said mildly. “I suppose you got rained on.
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Everybody was strange. In a fit of frustration, she scratched out strange and wrote the word CRACKPOTS in big letters.
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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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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.
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Not all people who inspire devotion are monsters.
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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.
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She groped forward, hands and feet, in search of darkness, distance and solitude.
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Alone with Giddon again, Bitterblue considered him, rather liking the mud streaks on his face. He looked like a handsome sunken rowboat.
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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.
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