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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
Harder
Frightening
Murder
Mercy

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