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If we're to be judged by our parents and grandparents, then we all may as well impale ourselves upon jagged bits of rock.

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Kristin Cashore
Age: 48
Born: 1976
Born: June 10
Novelist
Writer
Boston
Massachusetts
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May
Grandparent
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Judged
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Rocks
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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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Perhaps I can stay by the fire and mend your socks and scream if I hear any strange noises.
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When a monster stopped behaving like a monster, did it stop being a monster? Did it become something else?
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You won't even take your bow? Are you planning to throttle a moose with your bare hands, then?
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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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And you may blame me for your feelings, but it isn't fair to blame me for how you've chosen to behave.
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Teddy grinned again. 'Truths are dangerous,' he said. -'Then why are you writing them in a book?' -'To catch them between the pages,' said Teddy, 'and trap them before they disappear.' -'If they're dangerous, why not let them disappear?' -'Because when truths disappear, they leave behind blank spaces, and that is also dangerous.
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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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