337 Quotes by Kristin Cashore

Well, none of it would ever end if she was too afraid for it to begin.

King Birn of Wester and King Drowden of Nander might form an alliance and pummel Estill’s army on the northern borders, but Wester and Nander could never work together for long. Suddenly one would offend the other, and Wester and Nander would become enemies again, and Estill would join Nander to pound Wester.

If we’re to be judged by our parents and grandparents, then we all may as well impale ourselves upon jagged bits of rock.

Don’t you feel it, the joy of having an effect on everyone and everything simply by being?

A consciousness was like a face you saw once and forever recognized.

It hurt her eyes, almost, Ror City; and it didn’t surprise her that Po should come from a place that shone.

Garan snorted. “Now that we know about his indigestion, we can torture him with cake.

How absurd it was that in all seven kingdoms, the weakest and most vulnerable of people – girls, women – went unarmed and were taught nothing of fighting, while the strong were trained to the highest reaches of their skill.

Raffin had told her she wasn’t perceptive. Po was perceptive. And talkative. Perhaps that was why they got along so well. She didn’t have to explain herself to Po, and he explained himself to her without her having to ask. She’d never known a person with whom she could communicate so freely – so unused was she to the phenomenon of friendship.