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Children are geniuses.

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Kristin Cashore
Age: 48
Born: 1976
Born: June 10
Novelist
Writer
Boston
Massachusetts
Genius
Children
Geniuses

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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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I've liked you better when Katsa's around, Giddon said. She's so rotten to me that you seem positively pleasant in contrast.
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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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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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And she would protect him as fiercely, if it were ever his need- if a fight ever became too much for him or if he needed shelter, or food, or a fire in the rain. Or anything she could provide. She would protect him from anything.
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Normal. She wasn't normal. A girl Graced with killing, a royal thug? A girl who didn't want the husbands Randa pushed on her, perfectly handsome and thoughtful men, a girl who panicked at the thought of a baby at her breast, or clinging to her ankles.
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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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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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When a monster stopped behaving like a monster, did it stop being a monster? Did it become something else?
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There are no medicines to bring a dead thing back to life.
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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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We need an ally of Mydogg's or Gentian's pretending to be among the most loyal allies of the king,' Brigan said. 'Shouldn't be so hard, really. If I shot an arrow out the window I'd probably hit on.
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Only a person with the true heart of a dictionary-writer would be lying in bed, three days after being stabbed in the gut, worrying about his P's.
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Brigan threw his head back and smiled at the sky. Well said, Lady. The world may be falling to pieces, but at least the lot of us can have a bath.
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You’re crying.” “I’m not.” “Right,” he said mildly. “I suppose you got rained on.
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Things don't ever stay the same. Natural beginnings come to natural or unnatural ends.
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Do you understand? I don't want you to do a thing if you don't understand it.
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Still doing your best to ruin the horses, I see.
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Well then, Roen said briskly, are you sleeping? Yes. Come now. A mother can tell when her son lies. Are you eating? No, Brigan said gravely. I've not eaten in two months. It's a hunger strike to protest the spring flooding in the south. Gracious, Roen said, reaching for the fruit bowl. Have an apple, dear.
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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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