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Graceling (Graceling Realm, #1) QUOTES

Graceling (Graceling Realm, #1) QUOTES

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

― , Graceling (Graceling Realm, #1)

2 " In the end, Leck should have stuck to his lies. For it was the truth he almost told that killed him. "

― , Graceling (Graceling Realm, #1)

3 " 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. "

― , Graceling (Graceling Realm, #1)

4 " Hidden yourself in a hole and dared to burden no one with your grievous friendship? I will have friends, Katsa. I will have a life, even though I carry this burden. "

― Kristine Cashore, , Graceling (Graceling Realm, #1)

5 " Your brothers are the foolish ones for not seeing the strength in beautiful things. "

― , Graceling (Graceling Realm, #1)

6 " The only way for you to keep your mind straight is to run from those who would confuse you. "

― , Graceling (Graceling Realm, #1)

7 " 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. "

― , Graceling (Graceling Realm, #1)

8 " He leaned heavily on the desk now, as if danger had strengthened him before and its lack now made him weak. "

― , Graceling (Graceling Realm, #1)

9 " There was no helping her tears. For they would leave Po behind… She cried into his shoulder like a child. Ashamed of herself, for it was only a parting, and Bitterblue had not wept like this even over a death.

‘Don’t be ashamed,' Po whispered. ‘Your sadness is dear to me. Don’t be frightened. I won’t die, Katsa. I won’t die, and we’ll meet again. "

― , Graceling (Graceling Realm, #1)

10 " They seemed no closer to the tops of the peaks that rose before them. It was only by looking back, to the forest far below, that she knew they'd climbed. "

― , Graceling (Graceling Realm, #1)

11 " A monster that refused, sometimes, to behave like a monster. When a monster stopped behaving like a monster, did it stop being a monster? Did it become something else? "

― , Graceling (Graceling Realm, #1)

12 " You know,” he said, “I wish you could see this cave.”

“What’s it like?”

He paused. “It’s...beautiful, really.”

“Tell me.”

And so Po described to Katsa what hid in the blackness of the cave; and outside, the world awaited them. "

― , Graceling (Graceling Realm, #1)

13 " She wanted to cause him pain for taking a place in her heart she wouldn't have given him if she'd known the truth. "

― , Graceling (Graceling Realm, #1)

14 " It's as if when I open myself up to every perception, things create their own focus. "

― , Graceling (Graceling Realm, #1)

15 " 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. "

― , Graceling (Graceling Realm, #1)

16 " 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. "

― , Graceling (Graceling Realm, #1)

17 " A man who fights you as he does is no better than an opportunist and no worse than a thug. "

― , Graceling (Graceling Realm, #1)

18 " 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. "

― , Graceling (Graceling Realm, #1)

19 " Maybe it was for the best that she'd been so foolish, for if she'd known how hard this would be, perhaps she wouldn't have done it. "

― , Graceling (Graceling Realm, #1)

20 " 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. "

― , Graceling (Graceling Realm, #1)