I know you don't want this, Katsa. But I can't help myself. The moment you came barreling into my life I was… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
I've been afraid of being Cansrel,' she said aloud to her reflection. 'But I'm not Cansrel.' At her elbow, Musa said blandly,… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
You know,” he said, “I wish you could see this cave.” “What’s it like?” He paused. “It’s...beautiful, really.” “Tell me.” And so… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
He said, ‘The moment I began to love you was the moment when you saw your fiddle smashed on the ground, and… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
Great seas," he said. "What do you want?" He held the candle up to her face. "Po, what do you want?" "She… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
It's only water," she said. "Tell that to a drowning man," Giddon said. — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
I'll teach you how to defend yourself, how to maim a man. We can use Po as a model.' 'Wonderful,' Po said.… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
I'm not going to wear a red dress," she said. "It would look stunning, My Lady," she called. She spoke to the… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
Brigan," she said, annoyed that he had not understood. "I’ll always be beautiful. Look at me. I have one hundred and sixty… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
I wouldn't marry Giddon to save my life," Katsa said. "Not even to save yours." "Well." Raffin's eyes were full of laughter.… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
You're in fine temper," Raffin said. "Your hair is blue," she snapped back. — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
Part a of scene from 'Bitterblue' between Madlen (Bitterblue's medicine woman) and Bitterblue: Madlen came to sit beside her [Bitterblue] on the… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
I think.' she said, 'that sometimes we don't feel the things that we are. But others can feel them. — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
She expected the pain, when it came. But she gasped at its sharpness; it was not like any pain she had felt… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
You won't even take your bow? Are you planning to throttle a moose with your bare hands, then?" "I've a knife in… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
Tess had said that the river was liable to wash the palace and the city and the whole kingdom off the rocks,… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
To Garan's credit, the treatment of Dellian prisoners did change after that. One particularly laconic man, after a session in which Fire… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
There is nothing unnatural in this world," he said. "An unnatural thing is a thing that could never happen in nature. I… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
Sit, Your High Majestic Lord Princes," she said. She yanked a chair from the table and sat herself down. "You're in fine… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
I truly thought I might hurt that man," he said, "very badly." "I didn't know you were capable of such bad temper."… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
Your eyes are beautiful," he said, and she felt warm suddenly, warm in the sun that dappled through the treetops and rested… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
That's interesting," Bitterblue said. "You think a conscience requires fear? — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
It seems better to me for a child to have these skills and never use them, than not have them and one… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
I love you," he said. "You're more dear to my heart than I ever knew anyone else can be. And I've made… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
I’m as old as both of you,” she said, even though she suspected she wasn’t, “and I’m smarter, and I can probably… — 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