Kristin Cashore, Graceling Quotes

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

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

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.

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

She would thump them both, and she would apologize to neither.

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

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

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.

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

But everyone has some kind of power to hurt people.

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

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.

You're afraid of your own anger.

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.

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?

Please, Katsa, " he finally said. "At least talk to me".She swung around to face him. "What it there to talk about? You know how I feel, and what I think about it.""And what I feel? Doesn't it matter?

I can't know your feelings", he said, "if you don't know them yourself.

Alone in the forest, Katsa sat on a stump and cried. She cried like a person whose heart is broken and wondered how, when two people loved each other, there could be such a broken heart.

It's only water, " she said."Tell that to a drowning man, " Giddon said.

I wouldn't marry Giddon to save my life, " Katsa said. "Not even to save yours.""Well." Raffin's eyes were full of laughter. "I'd leave that part out.