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It has been a hard lesson to learn, that greatness requires suffering.

Kristin Cashore

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Kristin Cashore
Age: 48
Born: 1976
Born: June 10
Novelist
Writer
Boston
Massachusetts
Suffering
Learn
Hard
Lesson
Requires
Greatness
Lessons

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Katsa now sat calmly on the stomach of her vanquished foe. He was handsome, said said. Po moaned. Was he beat-to-a-pulp handsome, or perhaps just push-down-a-flight-of-stairs handsome? I would not push a seventy six year old man down a flight of stairs, said Katsa indignantly.
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Go safely. Go safely, she thought to him. what a silly, empty thing it was to say to anyone, anywhere.
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Spelling bees? Spelling bees do not scare me. I competed in the National Spelling Bee twice, thank you very much. My dad competed in the National Spelling Bee. My aunt competed in the National Spelling Bee. My uncle WON the National Spelling Bee. If I can't spell it, I know someone who can. So just bring it on.
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Still doing your best to ruin the horses, I see.
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He leaned heavily on the desk now, as if danger had strengthened him before and its lack now made him weak.
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How absurd it was that in all seven kingdoms, the weakest and most vulnerable of people - girls, women - went unarmed and were taught nothing of fighting, while the strong were trained to the highest reaches of their skill.
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She would like to restrain from cruelty and receive no admiration for it.
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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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And of course she understood now why her body wanted to run whenever he appeared. It was a correct instinct, for there was nothing to be got from this but sadness.
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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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