Kristin Cashore Quotes

“Why does everybody throw every troublesome thing into the river?”
― Kristin Cashore, Bitterblue

“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, Bitterblue

“That's interesting," Bitterblue said. "You think a conscience requires fear?”
― Kristin Cashore, Bitterblue

“I don't understand your book. Isn't every book a book of words?”
― Kristin Cashore, Bitterblue

“No one can do anything with politics and government," Lovisa said scornfully. "It's just two bickering sides who are exactly the same, pretending to fight about good sense and ideals when really it's all about money.”
― Kristin Cashore, Winterkeep

“If we're to be judged by our parents and grandparents, then we all may as well impale ourselves upon bits of rock.”
― kristin cashore, Fire

“Would it be so terrible for everyone to say what they mean when they do things, and what they want, and why? Wouldn't it make things simpler, and create fewer disasters?
"Lovisa," he said, "now what's going on?"
"I hate everyone who's normal," she said.”
― Kristin Cashore, Winterkeep

“She understood now that while it had been wrong to kill Cansrel, it had also been right. The boy with the strange eyes had helped her to see the rightness of it. The boy who'd killed Archer. Some people had too much power and too much cruelty to live. Some people were too terrible, 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, though Fire. Today, I forgive myself.”
― Kristin Cashore, Fire

“...I am, without a doubt, not what my family hoped I would be.”
― Kristin Cashore, Winterkeep

“If she was suggesting she was too wise with the weight of her experience to fall prey to infatuation - well, the disproof was sitting before her in the form of a gray-eyed prince with a thoughtful set to his mouth that she found quite distracting.”Fire, Kristin Cashore

“If she was suggesting she was too wise with the weight of her experience to fall prey to infatuation - well, the disproof was sitting before her in the form of a gray-eyed prince with a thoughtful set to his mouth that she found quite distracting.”
― Kristen Cashore

“Oh, it was all such a mess, the things people did to each other, and the decisions that had to be made.”
― Kristin Cashore, Winterkeep

“It was a problem with no solution. Whichever path she chose would be harder than she felt she could stand.”
― Kristin Cashore, Winterkeep

“I feel a deep sadness,’ he said, switching languages, 'except there’s a sweetness to it. It’s almost like a yearning. I don’t want to be there or ever feel anything like that again, ever. I don’t want to be hungry, frostbitten, or scared. I want to be here right now, having this life. But that experience is a part of me now, and it would hurt if someone tried to take it away. I would tear apart.”
― Kristin Cashore, Seasparrow