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Mercy was more frightening than murder, because it was harder.

Kristin Cashore

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Kristin Cashore
Age: 48
Born: 1976
Born: June 10
Novelist
Writer
Boston
Massachusetts
Frightening
Murder
Mercy
Harder

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How unjust then to meet that person you love, and be kept away from them only because ones bed is made of hay , and the other, feathers.
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You’re crying.” “I’m not.” “Right,” he said mildly. “I suppose you got rained on.
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It has been a hard lesson to learn, that greatness requires suffering.
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Tell me what I can do to help you feel better. Well...I always like when you kiss me... Do you? You're good at it. Well, that's lucky. Because I'll always be kissing you.
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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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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’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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