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Winterkeep (Graceling Realm, #4) QUOTES

Winterkeep (Graceling Realm, #4) QUOTES

1 " Come, Selie," said her mother, holding an arm out to her child. "Come keep me company while Giddon prods at my feet."

"Your faith in my abilities is touching," said Giddon.
"Let me go collect some sharp sticks to stab them with. "

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2 " Come, Selie," said her mother, holding an arm out to the child. "Come keep me company while Giddon prods at my feet."

"Your faith in my abilities is touching," said Giddon. "Let me just go collect some sharp sticks to stab them with. "

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3 " Balls!" she shouted in Lingian.
Then she jumped as Lovisa's curious voice spoke behind her.
"What does balls mean?"
"Balls," Bitterblue replied in frustration, as if that were an explanation. Then she said the word in Keepish, but Lovisa was clearly unenlightened.
"Like, balls to play a game with?" said Lovisa. "is that a swear word in Lingian?"
"No!" said Bitterblue. "Like a man's scrotum!"
"Oh! You call that balls?"
"Yes!"
"We call it kittens," said Lovisa. "Because they're so delicate."
This undid Bitterblue. "

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4 " No one can do anything with politics and government," Lovisa said scornfully. "It's just two bickering sides who are exactly the same, pretending to fight about good sense and ideals when really it's all about money. "

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5 " Would it be so terrible for everyone to say what they mean when they do things, and what they want, and why? Wouldn't it make things simpler, and create fewer disasters?
"Lovisa," he said, "now what's going on?"
"I hate everyone who's normal," she said. "

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6 " ...I am, without a doubt, not what my family hoped I would be. "

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7 " Oh, it was all such a mess, the things people did to each other, and the decisions that had to be made. "

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8 " It was a problem with no solution. Whichever path she chose would be harder than she felt she could stand. "

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9 " Do you notice there's a fox following us?" said Hava.
"There is?" said Giddon. "Whose fox?"
"How would I know that?"
Giddon shrugged. "With whatever magical power made you notice the fox?"
"You mean eyesight? "

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10 " They’re stronger than me. But I’m stronger then the way they’re trying to make me feel. "

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

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12 " How I wish I could hear those words in your voice. My own voice is wearing thin. "

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13 " If I have children someday," said Lovisa, "I won't expect them to blame my parents for the wrongs I do to them. They get to blame me. "

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14 " People were stupid. Pigs were infinitely more worthwhile. "

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15 " He'd kept every note she'd written him, and kept his three or four favourites in the envelope in his pocket, always. And the envelope was gone. [...]
"What's wrong?" said Hava, who was watching him with rising impatience.
What was wrong was that Giddon was realizing, with a bright white clarity he'd never had before, that a person did not keep notes like that from a friend, carrying them around like something precious, like treasure, for no reason. It wasn't normal, it wasn't a routine thing to do, and Giddon had never wanted to be Bitterblue's confidant and counselor when she searched for a husband. He'd loved her. "

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16 " They're stronger than me. But I'm stronger than the way they're trying to make me feel. "

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17 " Hava," he said, "do I use you?"
"Oh, urg," said Hava. "I knew this was coming."
"There was something in what Trina said."
"Okay then, do I use you?" said Hava. "When we're at a party and I let you do all the talking while I hide? Or let you carry everything with your big muscles? Or let you distract everyone by looking all handsome and stuffed with valour?"
"How do you manage to be so insulting while giving compliments? "

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18 " It wasn't your fault,' the silbercow said.
Maybe that was true. But Lovisa was beginning to understand that it was her legacy.
'I'm going to make up for it,' she said, not knowing what it meant, but certain, in that moment, that it was true.
'I'm going to protect you.'
'I believe you're going to try,' said the silbercow. 'I can feel the fire in your heart. "

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19 " She began to cry, that her parents had done something to hurt this creature. I'm sorry she started saying again. I'm sorry.
It wasn't your fault, the silbercow said. Maybe that was true. But Lovisa was beginning to understand that it was her legacy. "

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20 " Joy was no longer a thing they needed to steal. "

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