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It was just that she had the need to tell him something honest, something honest and unhappy, because cheerful lies tonight were too depressing and too sharp, turning in on her like pins

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Kristin Cashore
Age: 48
Born: 1976
Born: June 10
Novelist
Writer
Boston
Massachusetts
Needs
Turning
Something
Tonight
Like
Unhappy
Lies
Honest
Pins
Lying
Depressing
Tell
Cheerful
Need
Sharp

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I’m suspicious of the notion of a single book that would benefit everyone to read.
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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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He held up a finger and went to the hallway, where he tripped over Blotchy, and then over the two monster cats madly pursuing Blotchy. Swearing, he leaned over the landing and called to the guard that unless the kingdom fell to war or his daughter was dying, he better not be interrupted until further notice.
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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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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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If he touches you, I'll come in and choke him to death.
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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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Wonderful, Garan grumbled when he'd gone. We'll grow a reputation for our kindness to lawbreakers.
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...when truths disappear, they leave behind blank spaces, and that is also dangerous.
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