Taylor

“I love you," he said. "You're more dear to my heart than I ever knew anyone else can be. And I've made you cry; and there I'll stop."
She was crying, but not because of his words. It was because of a certainty she refused to consider while she sat before him.”
― Kristin Cashore, Graceling

“Everyone wants a bit of something beautiful.”
― Kristin Cashore, Fire

“What a horrifying notion," he said. "A creature with the power to take over one's mind.”
― Kristin Cashore, Fire

“There is nothing unnatural in this world," he said. "An unnatural thing is a thing that could never happen in nature. I happened. I am natural, and the things I want are natural. The power of your mind, and your beauty, even when you've been drugged in the bottom of a boat for two weeks, covered in grime and your face purple and green - your unnatural beauty is natural. Nature is horrifying.”
― Kristin Cashore, Fire