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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
Novelist
Writer
Boston
Massachusetts
Life
Beyond
Fire
Words
Understand
Father
Apology
Thought
Sat
Music
Notion
Way
Understood

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I’m bored to death. Perhaps I should pillage one of my neighbors for my own amusement. It seems to work for Drowden.
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Your horse is named Small. Yes. Mine is named Big. -Fire and Brigan
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She didn't want to go far, just out of the trees so she could see the stars. They always eased her loneliness. She thought of them as beautiful creatures, burning and cold each solitary, and bleak, and silent like her.
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