337 Quotes by Kristin Cashore

People tell you that what happens to you is a direct result of the choices you make, but that’s not fair. Half the time, you don’t even realize that the choice you’re about to make is significant.

Are you determined to leave me in this world to live without my heart?

The seventh kingdom was Monsea. The mountains set Monsea apart from the others, as the ocean did for Lienid. Leck, King of Monsea, was married to Ashen, the sister of King Ror of Lienid. Leck and Ror shared a dislike for the squabbles of the other kingdoms. But this didn’t forge an alliance, for Monsea and Lienid were too far removed from each other, too independent, too uninterested in the doings of the other kingdoms.

Do you understand? I don’t want you to do a thing if you don’t understand it.

Wester, Nander, Estill, Sunder, and the Middluns – the five inner kingdoms – had once known how to coexist peacefully. Centuries back they had all been of the same family, ruled by three brothers and two sisters who had managed to negotiate their jealousies without resorting to war. But any acknowledgment of that old family bond was long gone now.

It humbles me, but it doesn’t humiliate me.

For a moment, it was almost as if they were friends again.

I don’t often know who should read what book. It’s a little bit like trying to set people up on a date – a good match is unpredictable and mysterious.

He thinks we’re made of money.