Boring people Quote by Kristin Cashore

““Jessa was the person I went to whenever I’d been bad,” he said, adding wryly, “after my mother was through with me, that is.” Fire couldn’t help smiling. “And were you often bad?” “At least once a day, Lady, as I remember.” Her smile growing, Fire watched him as he watched the sky. “Perhaps you weren’t very good at following orders?” “Worse than that. I used to set traps for Nash.” “Traps!” “He was five years older than I. The perfect challenge—stealth and cunning, you see, to compensate for my lack of size. I rigged nets to land on him. Closed him inside closets.” Brigan chuckled. “He was a good-natured brother. But whenever our mother learned of it she’d be furious, and when she was done with me I’d go to Jessa, because Jessa’s anger was so much easier to take than Roen’s.” “How do you mean?” Fire asked, feeling a drop of rain, and wishing it away. He thought for a moment. “She’d tell me she was angry, but it didn’t sit like anger. She’d never raise her voice. She’d sit there sewing, or whatever she was doing, and we’d analyze my crimes, and invariably I’d fall asleep in my chair. When I woke it’d be too late to go to dinner and she’d feed me in the nurseries. A bit of a treat for a small boy who usually had to dress for dinner and be serious and quiet around a lot of boring people.” “A wicked boy, from the sound of it.””

— Kristin Cashore