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It's hard to wake from a nightmare when the nightmare is real.

Kristin Cashore

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Kristin Cashore
Age: 48
Born: 1976
Born: June 10
Novelist
Writer
Boston
Massachusetts
Nightmare
Wake
Hard
Real

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As she left the room, Po went to Katsa, pulled her up, sat himself in her chair, and drew her into his lap. Shushing her, he rocked her, the two of them holding on to each other as if it were the only thing keeping the world from bursting apart.
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He considered her seriously. Well. And that's easy, he said. My Grace will protect me from him, And I'll protect you. You'll be safe with me, Katsa.
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What a horrifying notion, he said. A creature with the power to take over one's mind.
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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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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 want to love you if you're only going to die.
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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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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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Not all people who inspire devotion are monsters.
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Gratitude takes less energy than anger.
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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'm not good at love. I'm like a barbed creature. I push everyone I love away.
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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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I wish people would stop hitting Po, whispered Bitterblue. Well, Giddon said. Yes. I'm hoping Skye is following my model. Punch Po go on a long trip feel better come back and make up.
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I think.' she said, 'that sometimes we don't feel the things that we are. But others can feel them.
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Go safely. Go safely, she thought to him. what a silly, empty thing it was to say to anyone, anywhere.
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The fellow who tends the greenhouse gardens? Trust me, Lady, you'd let him stake your tomatoes.
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You’re crying.” “I’m not.” “Right,” he said mildly. “I suppose you got rained on.
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His name was Death. It was pronounced to rhyme with teeth, but Bitterblue liked to mispronounce it by accident on occassion.
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Are you determined to leave me in this world to live without my heart?
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