Citas de Graceling

• When a monster stopped behaving like a monster, did it stop being a monster? Did it become something else?

  Kristin Cashore

  Monsters, Katsa

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Graceling”, p.137, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I know you don't want this, Katsa. But I can't help myself. The moment you came barreling into my life I was lost. I'm afraid to tell you what I wish for, for fear you'll... oh, I don't know, throw me into the fire. Or more likely, refuse me. Or worst of all, despise me," he said, his voice breaking and his eyes dropping from her face. His face dropping into his hands. "I love you," he said. "You're more dear to my heart than I ever knew anyone could be. And I've made you cry; and there I'll stop.

  Kristin Cashore

  Love You, Eye, Heart

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Graceling”, p.231, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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.

  Kristin Cashore

  Pain, Heart, Causes

  Kristin Cashore (2009). "Graceling", p.146, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

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• It was a strange monster, for beneath its exterior it was frightened and sickened by its own violence. It chastised itself for its savagery. And sometimes it had no heart for violence and rebelled against it utterly.

  Kristin Cashore

  Heart, Monsters, Violence

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Graceling”, p.137, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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.

  Kristin Cashore

  Girl, Strong, Fighting

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Graceling”, p.398, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Perhaps I can stay by the fire and mend your socks and scream if I hear any strange noises.

  Kristin Cashore

  Fire, Noise, Strange

  Kristin Cashore (2009). "Graceling", p.181, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

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• He laughed. "I know you're teasing me. And you should know I'm not easily humiliated. You may hunt for my food, and pound me every time we fight, and protect me when we're attacked, if you like. I'll thank you for it.

  Kristin Cashore

  Fighting, May, Pounds

  Kristin Cashore (2009). "Graceling", p.181, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

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• I wanted you to go away, because it hurts to be with you when I can't see you." - Po

  Kristin Cashore

  Hurt, Going Away, Wanted

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• Still doing your best to ruin the horses, I see.

  Kristin Cashore

  Horse, Ruins, Doing Your Best

  Kristin Cashore (2009). "Graceling", p.435, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

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• Katsa sat in the darkness of the Sunderan forest and understood three truths. She loved Po. She wanted Po. And she could never be anyone's but her own.

  Kristin Cashore

  Darkness, Three, Forests

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Graceling”, p.232, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• That was what they did with themselves, those two Gracelings, along with a small band of friends: They stirred up trouble on a serious scale—bribery, coercion, sabotage, organized rebellion—all directed at stopping the worst behavior of the world’s most seriously corrupt kings.

  Kristin Cashore

  Kings, Two, Serious

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Graceling”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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.

  Kristin Cashore

  Rose, Forests, Looking Back

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Graceling”, p.259, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• He made her drunk, this man made her drunk; and every time his eyes flashed into hers she could not breathe.

  Kristin Cashore

  Eye, Men, Drunk

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Graceling”, p.242, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Living is too hard right now. Dying is easy. Let me die.

  Kristin Cashore

  Dying, Easy, Let Me

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• She glanced up at him, and in that moment he pulled his wet shirt over his head. She forced her mind blank. Blank as a new sheet of paper, blank as a starless sky. He came to the fire and crouched before it. He rubbed the water from his bare arms and flicked it in the flames. She stared at the goose and sliced his drumstick carefully and thought of the blankest expression on the blankest face she could possibly imagine. It was a chilly evening; she thought about that. The goose would be delicious, they must eat as much of it as possible, they must not waste it; she thought about that.

  Kristin Cashore

  Fire, Expression, Flames

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• You know,” he said, “I wish you could see this cave.” “What’s it like?” He paused. “It’s...beautiful, really.” “Tell me.” And so Po described to Katsa what hid in the blackness of the cave; and outside, the world awaited them.

  Kristin Cashore

  Beautiful, Wish, Caves

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• Un hombre que te combate como él no es mejor que un oportunista ni peor que un matón.

  Kristin Cashore

  Fighting, Thug, Men

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Graceling”, p.141, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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