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Would you please do me the honor of telling me WHAT THE BLAZES IS GOING ON?
You're in fine temper," Raffin said. "Your hair is blue," she snapped back.
When you're a monster, you are thanked and praised for not being a monster.
That's interesting," Bitterblue said. "You think a conscience requires fear?
Love is stupid. It has nothing to do with reason. You love whomever you love.
Do you understand? I don't want you to do a thing if you don't understand it.
I'm not good at love. I'm like a barbed creature. I push everyone I love away.
And the kings were no better to their own people than they were to each others.
It was a very hard thing to have crushed the heart, and the hopes, of a friend.
Then she'll know I'll want to knock her senseless if she so much as looks at me.
You’re crying.” “I’m not.” “Right,” he said mildly. “I suppose you got rained on.
She groped forward, hands and feet, in search of darkness, distance and solitude.
I’m suspicious of the notion of a single book that would benefit everyone to read.
There will be no yelling at people who are bleeding themselves to unconsciousness.
Your brothers are the foolish ones for not seeing the strength in beautiful things.
It's as if when I open myself up to every perception, things create their own focus.
I wanted you to go away, because it hurts to be with you when I can't see you." - Po
...when truths disappear, they leave behind blank spaces, and that is also dangerous.
When Brocker arrived he took her hands and held them to his face and cried into them.
Garan snorted. "Now that we know about his indigestion, we can torture him with cake.
Things don't ever stay the same. Natural beginnings come to natural or unnatural ends.
What a horrifying notion," he said. "A creature with the power to take over one's mind.
You can't help whom you love, Lady. Nor can you know what it's liable to cause you to do.
Lady Queen," he said, "You've given me all I want. You're the queen a librarian dreams of.
A man who fights you as he does is no better than an opportunist and no worse than a thug.
Why are you still here?" she asked. "Shouldn't you be in a cave somewhere inspiring people?
The only way for you to keep your mind straight is to run from those who would confuse you.
Perhaps I can stay by the fire and mend your socks and scream if I hear any strange noises.
A book that bores me to tears is a book that neglects character building and quality of prose.
You won't even take your bow? Are you planning to throttle a moose with your bare hands, then?
The fellow who tends the greenhouse gardens? Trust me, Lady, you'd let him stake your tomatoes.
Dear Brigan, she thought to herself. People want incongruous, impossible things. Horses do, too.
I think.' she said, 'that sometimes we don't feel the things that we are. But others can feel them.
In the end, Leck should have stuck to his lies. For it was the truth he almost told that killed him.
Wonderful," Garan grumbled when he'd gone. "We'll grow a reputation for our kindness to lawbreakers.
Go safely. Go safely, she thought to him. what a silly, empty thing it was to say to anyone, anywhere.
And you may blame me for your feelings, but it isn't fair to blame me for how you've chosen to behave.
And what was it about the dark that made her question things she’d never questioned before, in the day.
I thought it was supposed to be impossible to sneak up on you. Eyes of a hawk and ears of a wolf and all.
Then she marched to the pillows and beat them mercilessly until they lay puffed out like obedient clouds.
When a monster stopped behaving like a monster, did it stop being a monster? Did it become something else?
He leaned heavily on the desk now, as if danger had strengthened him before and its lack now made him weak.
It hurt her eyes, almost, Ror City; and it didn't surprise her that Po should come from a place that shone.
He made her drunk, this man made her drunk; and every time his eyes flashed into hers she could not breathe.
But you're better than I am, Katsa. And it doesn't humiliate me. It humbles me. But it doesn't humiliate me.
Katsa and Po were trying to drown each other and, judging from their hoots of laughter, enjoying it immensely.
Everyone was willing to take some small risk to lessen the damage of their ambition and disorder and lawlessness.
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.
I’m bored to death. Perhaps I should pillage one of my neighbors for my own amusement. It seems to work for Drowden.
I push everyone I love away." He shrugged. "I don't mind you pushing me away if it means you love me, little sister.