When you're a monster, you are thanked and praised for not being a monster. Kristin Cashore More Quotes by Kristin Cashore More Quotes From Kristin Cashore It was a strange monster, for beneath its exterior it was frightened and sickened by its own violence. It chastised itself for its savagery. And sometimes it had no heart for violence and rebelled against it utterly. Kristin Cashore violence monsters heart He leaned heavily on the desk now, as if danger had strengthened him before and its lack now made him weak. Kristin Cashore weak danger made Katsa watched the long grass moving around them. The wind pushed it, attacked it, struck it in one place and then another. It rose and fell and rose again. It flowed, like water. Kristin Cashore long-grass wind moving Hidden yourself in a hole and dared to burden no one with your grievous friendship? I will have friends, Katsa. I will have a life, even though I carry this burden. Kristin Cashore katsa burden holes I'm not such a bad fighter myself," Skye said. Po exploded with laughter. "Oh, fight him, Katsa. Please fight him. I can't imagine a more entertaining diversion. Kristin Cashore fighter laughter fighting Maybe it was for the best that she'd been so foolish, for if she'd known how hard this would be, perhaps she wouldn't have done it. Kristin Cashore done would-be foolish Find something useful to do with your morning,' she thought to him as she neared her chambers. 'Do something heroic in front of an audience. Knock a child into a river while no one's looking and then rescue him. Kristin Cashore rivers morning children She glanced up at him, and in that moment he pulled his wet shirt over his head. She forced her mind blank. Blank as a new sheet of paper, blank as a starless sky. He came to the fire and crouched before it. He rubbed the water from his bare arms and flicked it in the flames. She stared at the goose and sliced his drumstick carefully and thought of the blankest expression on the blankest face she could possibly imagine. It was a chilly evening; she thought about that. The goose would be delicious, they must eat as much of it as possible, they must not waste it; she thought about that. Kristin Cashore flames expression fire 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. Kristin Cashore eye forever people A quote from 'Fire' where Fire projected a thought to her best friend Archer: "Love doesn't measure that way, she [Fire] thought to him [Archer]. And you may blame me for your feelings, but it isn't fair to blame me for how you've chosen to behave. Kristin Cashore archer fire feelings I've liked you better when Katsa's around," Giddon said. "She's so rotten to me that you seem positively pleasant in contrast. Kristin Cashore contrast rotten said Part a of scene from 'Bitterblue' between Madlen (Bitterblue's medicine woman) and Bitterblue: Madlen came to sit beside her [Bitterblue] on the bed. "Lady Queen," she said with her own particular brand of rough gentleness. "It is not the job of the child to protect her mother. It's the mother's job to protect the child. By allowing your mother to protect you, you gave her a gift. Do you understand me? Kristin Cashore queens mother jobs It humbles me, but it doesn't humiliate me. Kristin Cashore humiliate Some people had too much power and too much cruelty to live. Some people were too horrible, no matter if you loved them; no matter that you had to make yourself terrible too, in order to stop them. Some things just had to be done. I forgive myself, thought Fire. Today, I forgive myself. Kristin Cashore fire order people And you may blame me for your feelings, but it isn't fair to blame me for how you've chosen to behave. Kristin Cashore blame feelings may Not all people who inspire devotion are monsters. Kristin Cashore monsters inspire people
