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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
Think
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Requires
Conscience
Interesting
Fear

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Please, Katsa, he finally said. At least talk to me. She swung around to face him. What it there to talk about? You know how I feel, and what I think about it. And what I feel? Doesn't it matter?
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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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That was what they did with themselves, those two Gracelings, along with a small band of friends: They stirred up trouble on a serious scale—bribery, coercion, sabotage, organized rebellion—all directed at stopping the worst behavior of the world’s most seriously corrupt kings.
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I've liked you better when Katsa's around, Giddon said. She's so rotten to me that you seem positively pleasant in contrast.
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Still doing your best to ruin the horses, I see.
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You're beautiful this morning, Archer said, stopping before her, kissing her nose. You're impossibly sweet in my shirt. That might be but she felt like death. She would gladly make the trade how blissful it would be to feel impossibly sweet and look like death.
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For a group of people who claimed to be concerned for her safety, they did seem to have developed rather a habit of encouraging uprisings against monarchs.
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She didn't want to go far, just out of the trees so she could see the stars. They always eased her loneliness. She thought of them as beautiful creatures, burning and cold each solitary, and bleak, and silent like her.
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It has been a hard lesson to learn, that greatness requires suffering.
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Tell me what I can do to help you feel better. Well...I always like when you kiss me... Do you? You're good at it. Well, that's lucky. Because I'll always be kissing you.
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She groped forward, hands and feet, in search of darkness, distance and solitude.
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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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Perhaps I can stay by the fire and mend your socks and scream if I hear any strange noises.
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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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His last thought was that it hadn't been stupidity that had allowed his son to enchant him so easily with words. It had been love.
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In the saddle again, Fire mulled over the commander's trust, prodding it around, like a candy in her mouth, trying to decide whether she believed it.
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While I was looking the other way your fire went out Left me with cinders to kick into dust What a waste of the wonder you were In my living fire I will keep your scorn and mine In my living fire I will keep your heartache and mine At the disgrace of a waste of a life
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