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There are no medicines to bring a dead thing back to life.
Kristin Cashore
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Kristin Cashore
Age: 48
Born: 1976
Born: June 10
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Boston
Massachusetts
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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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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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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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Hidden yourself in a hole and dared to burden no one with your grievous friendship? I will have friends, Katsa. I will have a life, even though I carry this burden.
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She'd lost her fury, somewhere, as they'd talked. She didn't feel it anymore. She wished she did, because she preferred it to the emptiness that had settled in its place.
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They seemed no closer to the tops of the peaks that rose before them. It was only by looking back, to the forest far below, that she knew they'd climbed.
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We're going to win this war, you know, now that our army's together. But the world doesn't care who wins. It'll go on spinning, no matter how many people are slaughtered. After a moment, he added. I almost wish it wouldn't, if we aren't allowed to go on spinning with it.
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