Top 200 Kristin Cashore Quotes (2026 Update)
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51. “When you’re a monster, you are thanked and praised for not being a monster.”

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52. “If her enemies were Brigan’s friends and her friends were Brigan’s enemies, then the two of them could walk through the world arm in arm and never be hit by arrows again.”

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53. “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.”

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54. “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.”

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

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56. “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.”

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

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

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59. “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.”

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

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

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62. “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.”

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

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64. “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.”

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

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

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

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

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69. “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.”

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

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

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

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

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74. “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.”

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

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

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

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78. “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.”

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

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

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

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

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83. “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.”

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84. “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.”

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85. “There is nothing unnatural in this world,” he said. “An unnatural thing is a thing that could never happen in nature. I happened. I am natural, and the things I want are natural. The power of your mind, and your beauty, even when you’ve been drugged in the bottom of a boat for two weeks, covered in grime and your face purple and green – your unnatural beauty is natural. Nature is horrifying.”

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86. “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.”

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87. “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.”

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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.”

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

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90. “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.”

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91. “I hear you’re supposed to be good at manipulating people. Try a little harder to make me like you, all right? I’m the queen. Your life will be nicer if I like you.”

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

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93. “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.”

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

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

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

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97. “I have no doubt that you are more than capable of bringing the Monsean queen and my son and the rest of my sons and a hundred Nanderan kittens through an onslaught of howling raiders if you chose to.”

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98. “Brigan spun around to face the man, swearing with as much as exasperation and fury as Fire had ever heard anyone swear. The man scuttled away in alarm.”

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99. “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.”

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100. “The girl entered the room, not looking at Fire, glaring mutinously at the feather duster in her own hand. Still, at least she had come. Some of them scurried away, pretending not to hear.”

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