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roh’s favourites: Katsa, Fire, and Bitterblue in Graceling Realm by Kristin Cashore

“I want to have the heart and mind of a queen,” she whispered. “I want it more than anything. But I’m only pretending. I can’t find the feeling of it inside me.” Fire considered her quietly. You want me to look for it inside you. “I just want to know,” Bitterblue said. “If it’s there, it would be a great comfort for me to know.” Fire said, I can tell you already that it’s there.

Don’t you mess with a little girl’s dream ‘Cause she’s liable to grow up mean I’ve got your pawns and your bishops and castles All inside the palm of my hand [Caption: graphic of the three protagonist of the first three books in the Seven Kingdoms series, overlaid with the woods (Katsa, with an image of Lyrica Okano), a violin and sheet music (Fire, with an image of Marpessa Dawn lying in bed with a smile), and a crown (Bitterblue, with an image of Aiysha Hart wearing a crown).]

“tell me what other dream you want.” she wanted a thousand dreams. “let me dream that we leave each other friends.” he said, “that’s a true thing.”

“Truths are dangerous,” he said. “Then why are you writing them in a book?” “To catch them between the pages," said Teddy, "and trap them before they disappear.” “If they're dangerous, why not let them disappear?” “Because when truths disappear, they leave behind blank spaces, and that is also dangerous.”

Bitterblue: A Novel in Five Parts

Bitterblue, Kristin Cashore

She saw herself, tiny, fallen, crying and broken on the bridge. She could feel every person in the castle, every person in the city. She could hold every one of them in her arms; comfort every one. She was enormous, and electric with feeling, and wise.