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...when truths disappear, they leave behind blank spaces, and that is also dangerous.

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Kristin Cashore
Age: 48
Born: 1976
Born: June 10
Novelist
Writer
Boston
Massachusetts
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Dangerous
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Truths
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If I'd been trying to kill him, he'd be dead.
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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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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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Mercy was more frightening than murder, because it was harder, and Randa didn't deserve it. And even though she wanted what the voice wanted, she didn't think she had the courage for it.
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She wanted to cause him pain for taking a place in her heart she wouldn't have given him if she'd known the truth.
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Your horse is named Small. Yes. Mine is named Big. -Fire and Brigan
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I wanted you to go away, because it hurts to be with you when I can't see you. - Po
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She'd lost her fury, somewhere, as they'd talked. She didn't feel it anymore. She wished she did, because she preferred it to the emptiness that had settled in its place.
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Now we just need to find someone who is close to the king but is really a spy for Mydogg. That should be easy. I could probably shoot an arrow out the window and hit one.
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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 truly thought I might hurt that man, he said, very badly. I didn't know you were capable of such bad temper. Apparently I am.
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Katsa didn't think a person should thank her for not causing pain. Causing joy was worthy of thanks, and causing pain worthy of disgust. Causing neither was neither, it was nothing, and nothing didn't warrant thanks.
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We need an ally of Mydogg's or Gentian's pretending to be among the most loyal allies of the king,' Brigan said. 'Shouldn't be so hard, really. If I shot an arrow out the window I'd probably hit on.
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They seemed no closer to the tops of the peaks that rose before them. It was only by looking back, to the forest far below, that she knew they'd climbed.
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Not all people who inspire devotion are monsters.
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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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