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That's interesting, Bitterblue said. You think a conscience requires fear?

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Kristin Cashore
Age: 48
Born: 1976
Born: June 10
Novelist
Writer
Boston
Massachusetts
Conscience
Interesting
Fear
Think
Thinking
Requires

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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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I wanted you to go away, because it hurts to be with you when I can't see you. - Po
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It's hard to wake from a nightmare when the nightmare is real.
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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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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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...when truths disappear, they leave behind blank spaces, and that is also dangerous.
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Fire sat unbreathing. A life that was an apology for the life of his father: It was a notion she could understand, beyond words and thought. She understood it the way she understood music.
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Your eyes are beautiful, he said, and she felt warm suddenly, warm in the sun that dappled through the treetops and rested on them in patches.
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Alone with Giddon again, Bitterblue considered him, rather liking the mud streaks on his face. He looked like a handsome sunken rowboat.
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Things don't ever stay the same. Natural beginnings come to natural or unnatural ends.
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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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And, he continued, his strange smile gleaming, as I see it, our hearts are not so different in size. I murdered my father. You murdered yours. Is that something you did with a large heart?
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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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Have you ridden over anyone you shouldn't?
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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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Wonderful, Garan grumbled when he'd gone. We'll grow a reputation for our kindness to lawbreakers.
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It has been a hard lesson to learn, that greatness requires suffering.
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Brigan threw his head back and smiled at the sky. Well said, Lady. The world may be falling to pieces, but at least the lot of us can have a bath.
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Danzhol. The one with the marriage proposal and the objections to the town charter in central Monsea. Bacon, Bitterblue muttered. Bacon! she repeated, then carefully made her way up the spiral stairs.
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