Kristin Cashore Quotes

“When Brocker arrived he took her hands and held them to his face and cried into them.”

“Through an arrow loop in the wall she saw a familiar horse and rider tearing across the camp toward the healing rooms. Brigan pulled up at Nash's feet and dropped from the saddle. The two brothers threw their arms around each other and embraced hard.Shortly thereafter he stepped into the healing rooms and leaned in the doorway, looking across at her quietly. Brocker's son with the gentle gray eyes.She abandoned all pretense of decorum and ran at him.”

“Taking care of your thoughts is at least as important as taking care of your body - if not even more important.”

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

“Jesus taught us how to pray because The Lord's Prayer is the spiritual image of the Ten Commandments.”

“It would be better not to know so many things than to know so many things that are not so.”

“perhaps,thought Felix,that's what magic is--physics with a different twist to it.my world just hasn't discovered the twist.”

“It's a fine, warm day,” Henry replied. “I thought a spot of fishing?”“Just the thing!” said Felix. “Will you join us, Lucy?” Lucy felt Kitty and Sophia staring at her. Well-bred ladies, evidently, did not fish. “Oh, no! I assure you, Mr. Crowley-Cumberbatch, I have given up those hoyden pursuits of my youth.” She turned to Toby. “I haven't been fishing in ages. I can't remember the last time.”“Really, Luce?” Toby sounded incredulous. “Henry—is it true?”Henry sawed away at a slice of ham. “If you count six days as ages, then I suppose it's true. But if you can't remember six days back, Lucy, and you've forgotten Felix's Christian name, I'm concerned for you. Perhaps you've been spending too much time with Aunt Matilda.”

“To embrace Jesus Christ, you must let go of the world by crucifying the pleasures of your flesh.”

“The answer to the prayer of a rich man is in the hands of the poor.”