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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
Novelist
Writer
Boston
Massachusetts
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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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I'm not going to wear a red dress, she said. It would look stunning, My Lady, she called. She spoke to the bubbles gathered on the surface of the water. If there's anyone I wish to stun at dinner, I'll hit him in the face.
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Katsa turned to Po with tears in her eyes. 'He'll be so angry.' 'He won't stay angry forever.' 'Won't he?' she said. 'People do sometimes.' 'Do they?' he said. 'Reasonable people? I hope that's not true.' Katsa gave him a funny look, but didn't answer. Resumed hugging herself and kicking things.
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Things don't ever stay the same. Natural beginnings come to natural or unnatural ends.
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I’m suspicious of the notion of a single book that would benefit everyone to read.
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Your eyes are beautiful, he said, and she felt warm suddenly, warm in the sun that dappled through the treetops and rested on them in patches.
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My life is an apology for the life of my father.
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While I was looking the other way your fire went out Left me with cinders to kick into dust What a waste of the wonder you were In my living fire I will keep your scorn and mine In my living fire I will keep your heartache and mine At the disgrace of a waste of a life
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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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I wanted you to go away, because it hurts to be with you when I can't see you. - Po
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If we knew a person was going to die, we'd hold harder to the memories. Fire corrected him, in a whisper. The good memories.
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While I was looking the other way your fire went out. Left me with cinders to kick into dust, what a waste of the wonder you were
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People want incongruous, impossible things.
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How acutely sometimes the presence or absence of people mattered
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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.
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That was what they did with themselves, those two Gracelings, along with a small band of friends: They stirred up trouble on a serious scale—bribery, coercion, sabotage, organized rebellion—all directed at stopping the worst behavior of the world’s most seriously corrupt kings.
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It's as if when I open myself up to every perception, things create their own focus.
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His last thought was that it hadn't been stupidity that had allowed his son to enchant him so easily with words. It had been love.
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