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My life is an apology for the life of my father.

Kristin Cashore

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Kristin Cashore
Age: 48
Born: 1976
Born: June 10
Novelist
Writer
Boston
Massachusetts
Father
Life
Apology

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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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If he touches you, I'll come in and choke him to death.
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Are you determined to leave me in this world to live without my heart?
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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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...that's how memory works ... Things disappear without your permission, then come back again without your permission.
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We're going to win this war, you know, now that our army's together. But the world doesn't care who wins. It'll go on spinning, no matter how many people are slaughtered. After a moment, he added. I almost wish it wouldn't, if we aren't allowed to go on spinning with it.
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Not all people who inspire devotion are monsters.
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You won't even take your bow? Are you planning to throttle a moose with your bare hands, then? I've a knife in my boot, she said, and then wondered, for a moment, if she could throttle a moose with her bare hands.
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He made her drunk, this man made her drunk and every time his eyes flashed into hers she could not breathe.
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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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Brigan spun around to face the man, swearing with as much as exasperation and fury as Fire had ever heard anyone swear. The man scuttled away in alarm.
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Mercy was more frightening than murder, because it was harder.
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Madlen: 'It's a relief to me, Lady Queen, that in your own pain, you take no interest in hurting yourself.' Bitterblue: 'Why would I? Why should I? It's foolish. I would like to kick the people who do it.' Madlen: 'That would, perhaps, be redundant, Lady Queen.
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I don't understand your book. Isn't every book a book of words?
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