Avril

“Helda's been trying to impress me with the embroidery on the sheets. One more minute and I thought I might use them to hang myself."
"My mother did the embroidery," Bittterblue said.
Katsa clapped her mouth shut and glared at Helda. "Thank you, Helda, for mentioning that detail.”
― Kristin Cashore, Bitterblue

“This may be a thing you neither want nor need," she said. "But I'd rather you have it, wishing didn't, than not have it and wish you did.”
― Kristin Cashore, Bitterblue

“I'm afraid of plenty of things," he said. "I just do them anyway.”
― Kristin Cashore, Bitterblue

“Then she marched to the pillows and beat them mercilessly until they lay puffed out like obedient clouds.”
― Kristin Cashore, Bitterblue