Bitterblue Quotes

“But that's how memory works," Bitterblue said quietly. "Things disappear without your permission, then come back again without your permission." And sometimes they came back incomplete and warped.”
― Kristin Cashore, Bitterblue

“Find something useful to do with your morning,' she thought to him as she neared her chambers. 'Do something heroic in front of an audience. Knock a child into a river while no one's looking and then rescue him.”
― Kristin Cashore, Bitterblue

“Katsa and Po were trying to drown each other and, judging from their hoots of laughter, enjoying it immensely.”
― Kristin Cashore, Bitterblue

“Your face will freeze like that, you know, Kat," Raffin said helpfully to Katsa.

"Maybe I should rearrange your face, Raff," said Katsa.

"I should like smaller ears," Raffin offered.

"Prince Raffin has nice, handsome ears," Helda said, not looking up from her knitting. "As will his children. Your children will have no ears at all, My Lady," she said sternly to Katsa.

Katsa stared back at her, flabbergasted.

"I believe it's more that her ears won't have children," began Raffin, "which, you'll agree, sounds much less—”
― Kristin Cashore, Bitterblue

“Why does everybody throw every troublesome thing into the river?”
― Kristin Cashore, Bitterblue

“Only a person with the true heart of a dictionary-writer would be lying in bed, three days after being stabbed in the gut, worrying about his P's.”
― Kristin Cashore, Bitterblue

“I've liked you better when Katsa's around,' Giddon said. 'She's so rotten to me that you seem positively pleasant in contrast.”
― Kristin Cashore, Bitterblue

“Everybody was strange. In a fit of frustration, she scratched out strange and wrote the word CRACKPOTS in big letters.”
― Kristin Cashore, Bitterblue

“I'm afraid of plenty of things," he said. "I just do them anyway.”
― Kristin Cashore, Bitterblue

“That's interesting," Bitterblue said. "You think a conscience requires fear?”
― Kristin Cashore, Bitterblue

“I don't understand your book. Isn't every book a book of words?”
― Kristin Cashore, Bitterblue

“Danzhol. The one with the marriage proposal and the objections to the town charter in central Monsea. "Bacon," Bitterblue muttered. "Bacon!" she repeated, then carefully made her way up the spiral stairs.”
― Kristin Cashore, Bitterblue

“Bitterblue had never seen a man naked, and she was curious. She decided the universe owed her a few minutes, just a few, to satisfy her curiosity. So she went to him and knelt, which shut him up.”
― Kristin Cashore, Bitterblue

“why would he try to ruin something so beautiful? What is the world he was trying, and failing to create?
What is the world Runnemood is trying to create? And why must they both create their worlds by destroying?”
― Kristin Cashore, Bitterblue

“She pulled the hood over the girl's ears and fastened it tight. Biterblue looked like a potato sack, a small, shivering potato sack with empty eyes and a knife.”
― Kristen Cashore

“It was starting to seem to her that being "forward-thinking" too often involved avoiding any kind of thought at all - especially about things that might benefit from a great deal of thinking.”
― Kristin Cashore, Bitterblue

“Cuanto más leo y más oigo, más consciente soy de lo mucho que ignoro. Quiero saberlo todo.”
― Kristin Cashore, Bitterblue

“Algunos autores pueden escribir una buena historia; otros, escriben bien.”
― Kristin Cashore, Bitterblue

“Todos somos en parte luz y en parte sombra...”
― Kristin Cashore, Bitterblue

“Asi es como funciona la memoria-comentó en voz de queda Bitterblue-. Los recuerdos desaparecen sin permiso, y despues regresan del mismo modo, sin preguntarnos.-A veces volvían incompletos y deformados.”
― Kristin Cashore, Bitterblue

“Cada configuración de individuos es en sí misma un universo único y nuevo.”
― Kristin Cashore, Bitterblue

“Que la grandeza requiere sufrimiento ha sido una lección difícil de aprender.”
― Kristin Cashore, Bitterblue

“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.”
― Kristin Cashore, Winterkeep