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While I was looking the other way your fire went out Left me with cinders to kick into dust What a waste of the wonder you were In my living fire I will keep your scorn and mine In my living fire I will keep your heartache and mine At the disgrace of a waste of a life

Kristin Cashore

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Kristin Cashore
Age: 48
Born: 1976
Born: June 10
Novelist
Writer
Boston
Massachusetts
Wonder
Kick
Looking
Kicks
Living
Dust
Left
Mines
Keep
Mine
Cinders
Way
Waste
Heartache
Life
Went
Disgrace
Fire
Scorn

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While I was looking the other way your fire went out. Left me with cinders to kick into dust, what a waste of the wonder you were
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There was no helping her tears. For they would leave Po behind… She cried into his shoulder like a child. Ashamed of herself, for it was only a parting, and Bitterblue had not wept like this even over a death. ‘Don’t be ashamed,' Po whispered. ‘Your sadness is dear to me. Don’t be frightened. I won’t die, Katsa. I won’t die, and we’ll meet again.
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I don't understand your book. Isn't every book a book of words?
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Every configuration of people is an entirely new universe unto itself.
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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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Mercy was more frightening than murder, because it was harder.
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If I'd been trying to kill him, he'd be dead.
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You can't help whom you love, Lady. Nor can you know what it's liable to cause you to do.
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Love is stupid. It has nothing to do with reason. You love whomever you love.
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She groped forward, hands and feet, in search of darkness, distance and solitude.
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She crossed the room to him, put her arms around him, clung to him, turning her face to the side, learning all at once that it was awkward to show a person all of one's love when one's nose was broken.
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Are you determined to leave me in this world to live without my heart?
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It's hard to wake from a nightmare when the nightmare is real.
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He thinks we're made of money.
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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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When a monster stopped behaving like a monster, did it stop being a monster? Did it become something else?
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I'm not good at love. I'm like a barbed creature. I push everyone I love away.
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It hurt her eyes, almost, Ror City and it didn't surprise her that Po should come from a place that shone.
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Danzhol. The one with the marriage proposal and the objections to the town charter in central Monsea. Bacon, Bitterblue muttered. Bacon! she repeated, then carefully made her way up the spiral stairs.
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