337 Quotes by Kristin Cashore

A king who’s innocent of the things of which he’s guilty?

While I was looking the other way your fire went out Left me with cinders to kick into dust What a waste of the wonder you were In my living fire I will keep your scorn and mine In my living fire I will keep your heartache and mine At the disgrace of a waste of a life.

Could you attempt, at least, to make yourself presentable? I know this is a war, but the rest of us are trying to pretend it’s a party.

Hanna’s announced her intentions to marry Archer.

Fire sat unbreathing. A life that was an apology for the life of his father: It was a notion she could understand, beyond words and thought. She understood it the way she understood music.

I must stop wishing for things to happen. Because something will happen eventually, and when it does, I’ll be bound to wish it hadn’t.

You really thing I’m an artist?′ Jane has responded. But Jane is coming to know the answer to that question on her own. She’s seeing her umbrellas differently now. People other than she might love those umbrellas someday, probably not for Jane’s reasons, but for their own reasons – reasons Jane won’t know or understand. Jane is beginning to appreciate this wonderful, surreal fact about the creative process.

Things don’t ever stay the same. Natural beginnings come to natural or unnatural ends.

She couldn’t steal herself back from Randa only to give herself away again – belong to another person, be answerable to another person, build her very being around another person.