337 Quotes by Kristin Cashore

People want incongruous, impossible things.

What man can hate or love well when he is drugged?

I want to have the heart and mind of a queen,” she whispered. “I want it more than anything. But I’m only pretending. I can’t find the feeling of it inside me.”Fire considered her quietly. You want me to look for it inside you.“I just want to know,” Bitterblue said. “If it’s there, it would be a great comfort for me to know.”Fire said, I can tell you already that it’s there.“Really?” Bitterblue whispered.Queen Bitterblue, Fire said, shall I share with you the feeling of your own strength?

Your brothers are the foolish ones for not seeing the strength in beautiful things.

Helda's been trying to impress me with the embroidery on the sheets. One more minute and I thought I might use them to hang myself.""My mother did the embroidery," Bittterblue said.Katsa clapped her mouth shut and glared at Helda. "Thank you, Helda, for mentioning that detail.

They’re stronger than me. But I’m stronger then the way they’re trying to make me feel.

How unjust then to meet that person you love, and be kept away from them only because ones bed is made of hay , and the other, feathers.

Now that we know about his indigestion, we can torture him with cake.

Our own story is even more important for us to know than history.