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"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, American Author

Precision, Humor, Language, Obsession

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"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."

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"If we're to be judged by our parents and grandparents, then we all may as well impale ourselves upon jagged bits of rock."

"There will be no yelling at people who are bleeding themselves to unconsciousness."

"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."

"Do you understand? I don't want you to do a thing if you don't understand it."

"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?"

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

"People want incongruous, impossible things."

"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."

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