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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
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...that's how memory works ... Things disappear without your permission, then come back again without your permission.
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...when truths disappear, they leave behind blank spaces, and that is also dangerous.
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You won't even take your bow? Are you planning to throttle a moose with your bare hands, then? I've a knife in my boot, she said, and then wondered, for a moment, if she could throttle a moose with her bare hands.
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I'm not such a bad fighter myself, Skye said. Po exploded with laughter. Oh, fight him, Katsa. Please fight him. I can't imagine a more entertaining diversion.
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Are you determined to leave me in this world to live without my heart?
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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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Then she marched to the pillows and beat them mercilessly until they lay puffed out like obedient clouds.
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I was doing science, Giddon said. He threw a bean. I was testing the impact of a bean upon water, Bann said. That's not even a real thing. Perhaps I'll test the impact of a bean upon your beautiful white shirt.
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Do you understand? I don't want you to do a thing if you don't understand it.
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Wonderful, Garan grumbled when he'd gone. We'll grow a reputation for our kindness to lawbreakers.
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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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Brigan threw his head back and smiled at the sky. Well said, Lady. The world may be falling to pieces, but at least the lot of us can have a bath.
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Love is stupid. It has nothing to do with reason. You love whomever you love.
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