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I don’t often know who should read what book. It’s a little bit like trying to set people up on a date - a good match is unpredictable and mysterious.

Kristin Cashore

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Kristin Cashore
Age: 48
Born: 1976
Born: June 10
Novelist
Writer
Boston
Massachusetts
Good
Mysterious
Like
Bits
People
Read
Often
Littles
Little
Unpredictable
Book
Match
Trying
Date

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What a horrifying notion, he said. A creature with the power to take over one's mind.
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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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Your horse is named Small. Yes. Mine is named Big. -Fire and Brigan
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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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I don't understand your book. Isn't every book a book of words?
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You can't help whom you love, Lady. Nor can you know what it's liable to cause you to do.
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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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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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Tell me what I can do to help you feel better. Well...I always like when you kiss me... Do you? You're good at it. Well, that's lucky. Because I'll always be kissing you.
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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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And of course she understood now why her body wanted to run whenever he appeared. It was a correct instinct, for there was nothing to be got from this but sadness.
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That's interesting, Bitterblue said. You think a conscience requires fear?
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People want incongruous, impossible things.
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Mercy was more frightening than murder, because it was harder.
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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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When a monster stopped behaving like a monster, did it stop being a monster? Did it become something else?
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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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I wanted you to go away, because it hurts to be with you when I can't see you. - Po
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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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You cannot measure love by a scale of degrees.
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