337 Quotes by Kristin Cashore

How acutely sometimes the presence or absence of people mattered.

Bacon improved things dramatically.

If I wanted to stun anyone at dinner, I’d hit them in the face.

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.

She’d lost her fury, somewhere, as they’d talked. She didn’t feel it anymore. She wished she did, because she preferred it to the emptiness that had settled in its place.

You’re the queen, and it’s the queen’s house, and whatever Brigan may accomplish, he’s highly unlikely ever to be queen.

She hadn’t expected to have such an immediate opportunity to practice containing her temper.

A book that bores me to tears is a book that neglects character building and quality of prose.

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.