What she really loved was to hang over the edge and watch the bow of the ship slice through the waves. She loved it especially when the waves were high and the ship rose and fell, or when it was snowing and the flakes stung her face.

Kristin Cashore

Tags: ocean sailing ship



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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

Tags: power strong weak unfair katsa



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When a monster stopped behaving like a monster, did it stop being a monster? Did it become something else?

Kristin Cashore

Tags: monster katsa



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Perhaps I can stay by the fire and mend your socks and scream if I hear any strange noises.

Kristin Cashore

Tags: humor sexism badass



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They sat on the outcropping of stone and at bread and fruit. Kasta watched the long grass moving around them. The wind pushed it, attacked it, struck it in one place than another. It rose and fell again. It flowed, like water.
"Is this what the sea is like?" Kasta asked, and they both turned to her, surprised. "Does the sea move the way this grass moves?"
“It's like the sea,” she said.
Giddon’s eyes on her were incredulous.
“What? Is it such a strange thing to say?”
“It’s a strange thing for you to say.” He shook his head. He gathered their bread and fruit, then rose. “The Lienid fighter is filling your mind with romantic notions.

Kristin Cashore

Tags: sea



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All right," Clara said. "We have our swordsman, so let's get moving. Brigan, 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


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It was a very hard thing to have crushed the heart, and the hopes, of a friend.

Kristin Cashore


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I'm not going to wear a red dress," she said.
"It would look stunning, My Lady," she called.
She spoke to the bubbles gathered on the surface of the water. "If there's anyone I wish to stun at dinner, I'll hit him in the face.

Kristin Cashore

Tags: humor



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Something caught in her throat at this second thanks, when she'd threatened him so brutally. When you're a monster, she thought, you are thanked and praised for not behaving like a monster. She would like to restrain from cruelty and receive no admiration for it.

Kristin Cashore

Tags: cruelty being-good low-expectations monstrousness



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Do you understand? I don't want you to do a thing if you don't understand it.

Kristin Cashore

Tags: understanding fire brocker



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