337 Quotes by Kristin Cashore

The sight of her killed his joy. Well. He was not the only person with the right to risk his life, and he was not the only person who was brave. It all seemed to make sense in her mind as she turned to Archer, to assure him she didn’t want to shoot raptors from the wall after all; and then she swung away to Small’s stall to do something that had no logic whatsoever, except, perhaps hidden very deep.

At least her last words to him had been words of love. But she wished she’d told him just how much she loved him. How much she had to thank him for, how many good things he had done. She hadn’t told him nearly enough.

Sneaking was a kind of deceit. So was disguise. Just past midnight, wearing dark trousers and Fox’s hood, the queen snuck out of her own rooms and stepped into a world of stories and lies.

Dear Brigan, she thought to herself. People want incongruous, impossible things. Horses do, too.

Your brand of comfort bears some similarity to your tactical offense.

It was starting to seem to her that being “forward-thinking” too often involved avoiding any kind of thought at all – especially about things that might benefit from a great deal of thinking.

Everyone wants a bit of something beautiful.

But everyone has some kind of power to hurt people, Patch said. It doesn’t mean they do.

What a horrifying notion,” he said. “A creature with the power to take over one’s mind.