Top 200 Kristin Cashore Quotes (2025 Update)
Page 2 of 5

51. “It was a strange monster, for beneath its exterior it was frightened and sickened by its own violence. It chastised itself for its savagery. And sometimes it had no heart for violence and rebelled against it utterly.”

— Kristin Cashore

52. “Your brothers are the foolish ones for not seeing the strength in beautiful things.”

— Kristin Cashore

53. “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.”

— Kristin Cashore

54. “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.”

— Kristin Cashore

55. “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.”

— Kristin Cashore

56. “Not all people who inspire devotion are monsters.”

— Kristin Cashore

57. “Alone with Giddon again, Bitterblue considered him, rather liking the mud streaks on his face. He looked like a handsome sunken rowboat.”

— Kristin Cashore

58. “As she left the room, Po went to Katsa, pulled her up, sat himself in her chair, and drew her into his lap. Shushing her, he rocked her, the two of them holding on to each other as if it were the only thing keeping the world from bursting apart.”

— Kristin Cashore

59. “Normal. She wasn’t normal. A girl Graced with killing, a royal thug? A girl who didn’t want the husbands Randa pushed on her, perfectly handsome and thoughtful men, a girl who panicked at the thought of a baby at her breast, or clinging to her ankles.”

— Kristin Cashore

60. “Still doing your best to ruin the horses, I see.”

— Kristin Cashore

61. “It’s hard to wake from a nightmare when the nightmare is real.”

— Kristin Cashore

62. “Love is stupid. It has nothing to do with reason. You love whomever you love.”

— Kristin Cashore

63. “Katsa now sat calmly on the stomach of her vanquished foe. “He was handsome,” said said. Po moaned. “Was he beat-to-a-pulp handsome, or perhaps just push-down-a-flight-of-stairs handsome?” “I would not push a seventy six year old man down a flight of stairs,” said Katsa indignantly.”

— Kristin Cashore

64. “It’s not your fault,” he repeated firmly. “It’s your burden. But it’s not your fault. There’s a difference.”

— Kristin Cashore

65. “Po looked at her, but he didn’t see her. His eyes snapped, silver ice and gold fire.”

— Kristin Cashore

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

— Kristin Cashore

67. “If I’d been trying to kill him, he’d be dead.”

— Kristin Cashore

68. “And you may blame me for your feelings, but it isn’t fair to blame me for how you’ve chosen to behave.”

— Kristin Cashore

69. “I thought it was supposed to be impossible to sneak up on you. Eyes of a hawk and ears of a wolf and all.”

— Kristin Cashore

70. “Raff, what have you done to yourself? Your hair is positively blue.”

— Kristin Cashore

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

— Kristin Cashore

72. “Katsa kicked off her shoes, hitched up her skirt, and climbed into the fountain, sighing as the cold water ran between her toes and lapped at her ankles. it was a great improvement over her shoes. She would not put them on again tonight.”

— Kristin Cashore

73. “A man who fights you as he does is no better than an opportunist and no worse than a thug.”

— Kristin Cashore

74. “Katsa watched the long grass moving around them. The wind pushed it, attacked it, struck it in one place and then another. It rose and fell and rose again. It flowed, like water.”

— Kristin Cashore

75. “It humbles me, but it doesn’t humiliate me.”

— Kristin Cashore

76. “For a group of people who claimed to be concerned for her safety, they did seem to have developed rather a habit of encouraging uprisings against monarchs.”

— Kristin Cashore

77. “There is nothing unnatural in this world. An unnatural thing is a thing that could never happen in nature. I happened. I am natural, and the things I want are natural.”

— Kristin Cashore

78. “You won’t even take your bow? Are you planning to throttle a moose with your bare hands, then?”

— Kristin Cashore

79. “Every configuration of people is an entirely new universe unto itself.”

— Kristin Cashore

80. “Some of the smartest men have a hard time comprehending the obvious.”

— Kristin Cashore

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

— Kristin Cashore

82. “I’m suspicious of the notion of a single book that would benefit everyone to read.”

— Kristin Cashore

83. “You cannot measure love by a scale of degrees.”

— Kristin Cashore

84. “What’s the true reason I’ve decided I trust him? Certainly his Council work recommends him, his choice of friends. But isn’t it just as much the timbre of his voice? I like to hear him say words. I trust the deep way he says, ‘Yes, Lady Queen.”

— Kristin Cashore

85. “There’s no shame in crawling when one can’t walk.”

— Kristin Cashore

86. “How unjust then to meet that person you love, and be kept away from them only because ones bed is made of hay, and the other, feathers.”

— Kristin Cashore

87. “Men are daft around women, incautious and boastful.”

— Kristin Cashore

88. “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.”

— Kristin Cashore

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

— Kristin Cashore

90. “There isn’t a simple person anywhere in this world.”

— Kristin Cashore

91. “I don’t want to love you if you’re only going to die.”

— Kristin Cashore

92. “I’ll give myself to you however you’l take me,” he said, so simply that Katsa found she wasn’t embarrassed. She watched his face.”

— Kristin Cashore

93. “But you’re better than I am, Katsa. And it doesn’t humiliate me. It humbles me. But it doesn’t humiliate me.”

— Kristin Cashore

94. “Everyone was willing to take some small risk to lessen the damage of their ambition and disorder and lawlessness.”

— Kristin Cashore

95. “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.”

— Kristin Cashore

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

— Kristin Cashore

97. “Writers breathe in books, mix them up with whatever else we’ve got going on in there, then breathe out.”

— Kristin Cashore

98. “Ideas were growing in all directions and dimensions; they were becoming a sculpture, or a castle. And then everyone left her, to return to their own affairs; and she was alone, and empty and unbelieving again.”

— Kristin Cashore

99. “Only a person with the true heart of a dictionary-writer would be lying in bed, three days after being stabbed in the gut, worrying about his P’s.”

— Kristin Cashore

100. “And I suppose it never occurred to you to start small. If I told you my roof needed rebuilding, you’d start by knocking down the house.”

— Kristin Cashore