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“It's as if when I open myself up to every perception, things create their own focus.”
“I can't know your feelings", he said ,"if you don't know them yourself.”
“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.”
“When she came back minutes later with a great, fat, skinned rabbit, Po had built a fire. The flames cast orange light on the horses and on himself. "It was the least I could do," Po said, drily, "a...”
“You know, he said, I wish you could see this cave.Whats it like?He paused. Its...beautiful, really.Tell me.And so Po described to Katsa what hid in the blackness of the cave; and outside, the world...”
“A monster that refused, sometimes, to behave like a monster. When a monster stopped behaving like a monster, did it stop being a monster? Did it become something else?”
“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.”
“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 ...”
“Alone in the forest, Katsa sat on a stump and cried. She cried like a person whose heart is broken and wondered how, when two people loved each other, there could be such a broken heart.”
“Everyone was willing to take some small risk to lessen the damage of their ambition and disorder and lawlessness.”
“She would thump them both, and she would apologize to neither.”
“It's only water," she said."Tell that to a drowning man," Giddon said.”
“What she really loved was to hang over the edge and watch the bow of the ship slice through the waves. She loved it especially when the waves were high and the ship rose and fell, or when it was sn...”
“If she took Po as her husband, she would be making promises about a future she couldn't yet see. For once she became his wife, she would be his forever. And, no matter how much freedom Po gave her,...”
“They sat on the outcropping of stone and at bread and fruit. Kasta watched the long grass moving around them. The wind pushed it, attacked it, struck it in one place than another. It rose and fell ...”
“Kasta looked from one of them to the other, the two of them shaking hands, understanding each other's concern. She didn't see where Giddon came off feeling insulted. She didn't see how Giddon had a...”
“A man who fights you as he does is no better than an opportunist and no worse than a thug.”
“Something caught in her throat at this second thanks, when she'd threatened him so brutally. When you're a monster, she thought, you are thanked and praised for not behaving like a monster. She wou...”
