“When he came at her suddenly, flattened her against the wall, and tried to kiss her, she no longer had any doubt.… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
“Shall I choose a life of bleakness, then, Archer, just to stay alive? I won’t hide in a room with the doors… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
“I don't mind you pushing me away if it means you love me, little sister.” — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
“It's not reasonable to love people who are only going to die," she said. Nash thought about that for a moment, stroking… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
His last thought was that it hadn't been stupidity that had allowed his son to enchant him so easily with words. It… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
Part of avoiding thoughts about something was not encouraging opportunities for that something to makes itself felt. — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
You can't help whom you love, Lady. Nor can you know what it's liable to cause you to do. — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
“Alone in the forest, Katsa sat on a stump and cried. She cried like a person whose heart is broken and wondered… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
It always struck Fire, the physical affection between these siblings, who as often as not were at each other's throats over one… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
“Madlen came to sit beside her on the bed. "Lady Queen," she said with her own particular brand of rough gentleness. "It… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
“Of course, it was impossible, in this company, not to think about balances of power. Raffin and Bann glanced at each other… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
“I'm not so good at love. I'm like a barbed creature. I push everyone I love away.' He shrugged. 'I don't mind… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
“Back onto their horses, and shortly thereafter word had come around from the command units that any soldier brawling over any matter relating to… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
“The girls clipped and swept, and Katsa’s hair fell away. She thrilled at the unfamiliar chill of air on her neck. And wondered if… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
“Raffin appeared again, a floor above her, on the balconied passageway that ran past his workrooms. He leaned over the railing and called down… — Kristin cashore Copy Share Image
“When you’re a monster, she thought, you are thanked and praised for not behaving like a monster. She would like to restrain from cruelty… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
“She glanced up at him, and in that moment he pulled his wet shirt over his head. She forced her mind blank. Blank as… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
“She had thought she'd already reached her capacity for pain and had no room inside her for more. But she remembered having told Archer… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
“He thinks it's dangerous for us to leave each other so much freedom and make these vague plans to travel together in the future,… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
Ideas were growing in all directions and dimensions; they were becoming a sculpture, or a castle. And then everyone left her, to return to… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
“Papa?” she said, turning in circles now, spinning to look at each of the entrances. “Do you mean Papa? Where?” He came through an… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
“He decided to mark this new era in his life with a change of his foolish, sentimental name. The people of this land had… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
I know you don't want this, Katsa. But I can't help myself. The moment you came barreling into my life I was lost. I'm… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
