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...that's how memory works ... Things disappear without your permission, then come back again without your permission.

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Kristin Cashore
Age: 48
Born: 1976
Born: June 10
Novelist
Writer
Boston
Massachusetts
Memories
Back
Come
Without
Permission
Things
Disappear
Memory
Works

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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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Hidden yourself in a hole and dared to burden no one with your grievous friendship? I will have friends, Katsa. I will have a life, even though I carry this burden.
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How acutely sometimes the presence or absence of people mattered
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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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It has been a hard lesson to learn, that greatness requires suffering.
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There are no medicines to bring a dead thing back to life.
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Bacon improved things dramatically.
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Mercy was more frightening than murder, because it was harder.
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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 knew he was angry, but she couldn't stop laughing. Forgive me, Po. I was only trying to get your attention. And I suppose it never occurs to you to start small. If I told you my roof needed rebuilding, you'd start by knocking down the house.
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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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I push everyone I love away. He shrugged. I don't mind you pushing me away if it means you love me, little sister.
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That's interesting, Bitterblue said. You think a conscience requires fear?
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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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What she really loved was to hang over the edge and watch the bow of the ship slice through the waves. She loved it especially when the waves were high and the ship rose and fell, or when it was snowing and the flakes stung her face.
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It's as if when I open myself up to every perception, things create their own focus.
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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 hear you're supposed to be good at manipulating people. Try a little harder to make me like you, all right? I'm the queen. Your life will be nicer if I like you.
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Normal. She wasn't normal. A girl Graced with killing, a royal thug? A girl who didn't want the husbands Randa pushed on her, perfectly handsome and thoughtful men, a girl who panicked at the thought of a baby at her breast, or clinging to her ankles.
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I don't understand your book. Isn't every book a book of words?
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