337 Quotes by Kristin Cashore

When a monster stopped behaving like a monster, did it stop being a monster? Did it become something else?

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 and receive no admiration for it.

For a group of people who claimed to be concerned for her safety, they did seem to have developed rather a habit of encouraging uprisings against monarchs.

Katsa sat in the darkness of the Sunderan forest and understood three truths. She loved Po. She wanted Po. And she could never be anyone's but her own.

He laughed. "I know you're teasing me. And you should know I'm not easily humiliated. You may hunt for my food, and pound me every time we fight, and protect me when we're attacked, if you like. I'll thank you for it.

He made her drunk, this man made her drunk; and every time his eyes flashed into hers she could not breathe.

Then she'll know I'll want to knock her senseless if she so much as looks at me.

He raised his eyebrows. "You could kill me"."I couldn't," she said, "for you would know I meant to kill you, and you'd escape me. You'd stay far away from me, always.""Ah, but I wouldn't.""You would," she said, "if I wished to kill you.""I wouldn't.

There was one she kept reaching for, with a copper-red varnish, and a clarity like the point of a star, precise and loansome, reminding her, somehow, of home. This is the one, she thought to herself.