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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.

Kristin Cashore

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Kristin Cashore
Age: 48
Born: 1976
Born: June 10
Novelist
Writer
Boston
Massachusetts
Make
Queens
Good
Supposed
Life
Harder
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Hear
People
Littles
Little
Manipulating
Right
Nicer
Trying
Queen

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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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Then she'll know I'll want to knock her senseless if she so much as looks at me.
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I'm not such a bad fighter myself, Skye said. Po exploded with laughter. Oh, fight him, Katsa. Please fight him. I can't imagine a more entertaining diversion.
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Love is stupid. It has nothing to do with reason. You love whomever you love.
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That's interesting, Bitterblue said. You think a conscience requires fear?
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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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