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One bright day in the middle of the night, two dead boys got up to fight. They drew their swords and shot each other. A deaf police man heard the noise, and ran to save the two dead boys. And if you don't believe it's true, ask the blind man, he saw it too. -- Cinda Williams Chima
Can you see why I can't stand a lie? People have been lying to me all my life. Even the person I loved the most in the world."
Sometimes people lie for good reasons," Jonah said. "To keep you safe, or to avoid breaking your heart, or to make it possible for you to go on living. -- Cinda Williams Chima
As I said, history is written by the victors. The truth is, the villains were less villainous, and the heroes less heroic, than you've been told. -- Cinda Williams Chima
He'd always found that he learned more if he kept quiet. -- Cinda Williams Chima
Surround yourselves with trustworthy people. If you don't, all the weaponry and tactics in the world can't save you. -- Cinda Williams Chima
His aster-blue eyes shown out from a face blackened by bruises and soot, his fair hair glittering in the firelight. Dressed all in black, silhouetted against flame, he looked rather like a demon, raised from the dead, trading for souls on the other side. -- Cinda Williams Chima
If I could destroy the world, don't you think I could fight off the queen of the Fells? Crow snorted. -- Cinda Williams Chima
We can't rely on magic to win the day. -- Cinda Williams Chima
I look like a Solstice cake," Jenna complained when they were finished.
"Well," Treece said, "everybody likes Solstice cakes. -- Cinda Williams Chima
Love is the root of so much suffering and misery, so much loss. It's the worst thing in the world, to risk yourself by loving someone. At the same time, it's the best thing in the world - and worth the risk. -- Cinda Williams Chima
No, Hanson, this is not the scene where the girl puts on a skirt and some paint and her schoolmate, who's a little thick, suddenly realizes that she is his true love."
"Oh," Ash said. "Good to know. -- Cinda Williams Chima
How dare you?' Bayar began, but his voice had lost some of its force. 'How dare you come into this sacred hall, flinging accusations?'
'I have not yet made any accusations,' Willo said. 'Perhaps it is our own guilt clamoring in your ears. -- Cinda Williams Chima
Admit nothing - that was his first rule. Appeal to logic - second rule. Delay the inevitable - third rule. -- Cinda Williams Chima
A sensible girl would not have been crying, grieving for the boy with the magic in his voice and the blues in his eyes, mourning the loss of something that was a lie-a lie-from beginning to end. -- Cinda Williams Chima
Scummer," Mick muttered. Mick never said much, and when he did it was usually "scummer. -- Cinda Williams Chima
Crow shrugged. "What is death? The loss of a body? The loss of the animating spark? If that's the case, I am dead.
"Or is life the persistence of memory and emotion, volition and desire?" Crow went on, as if in a debate with himself. "If that's the case, I am very much alive. -- Cinda Williams Chima
But music-good music-was by nature an intimate act. -- Cinda Williams Chima
I live in the present because the future is always chancy. When it comes to being with you, I'm willing to take the risk. -- Cinda Williams Chima
Sometimes you have to get away to remember who you are. Believe in yourself, Lyss. You're strong and smart enough to do this job. Never let anyone tell you different. -- Cinda Williams Chima
Maybe you're the one that gave me up to the Darians at Oden's Ford."
"Right," she said, staring up at the ceiling. "And then I turned around and rescued you. You know women - changeable as a day in April. Sometimes we just can't make up our minds. -- Cinda Williams Chima
His father always treated him as if he were capable of great things. Which made him want to accomplish great things. -- Cinda Williams Chima
Emma was horrified and transfixed at the same time. She was watching Jonah Kinlock doing what he did best. There was a certain macabre beauty in watching form and function wedded together. In Jonah's case, a dance of beauty and death. -- Cinda Williams Chima
She's tough for a blueblood, he'd thought, a lifetime ago. Maybe tough enough to be with him. He hadn't considered that he might not be tough enough to be with her. -- Cinda Williams Chima
He radiated a calm focus
like he knew who he was and where he was going. He was a steady mooring in a sea of change. Hr was honest and kept his word, and he was unrelentingly fair. It made people want to follow him. -- Cinda Williams Chima
The time will come when you will be forced to make a choice," Hanalea said. "When that time comes, choose love. -- Cinda Williams Chima
And it's not just a matter of you hurting me. I will hurt you too, even if I don't want to, I'm not the girl you think I am. And you will remember this conversation , and wish that you'd listened to me. -- Cinda Williams Chima
To be honest, I thought of you as an amateur - a spoiled, entitled, runaway princeling bent on revenge who would get caught and then complicate my elegant scheme. I figured the less you knew, the better."
"I hate it when you sugarcoat things," Ash said. -- Cinda Williams Chima
Jason settled back on the bench. 'I hate to break this to you, but as a rule, wizards are nasty people. They're powerful, capricious, ruthless, egotistical, used to getting their own way. That's being kind. -- Cinda Williams Chima
Commander! Sir! Wake up!
Jack surfaced from sleep, wondering who the commander was and wishing he'd respond so he could go back to sleep - until he remembered that he was the commander. -- Cinda Williams Chima
And, like a fool, she kissed him back. Kissed him a way that would leave no doubt about the way she felt about him. Kissed him because she knew the chances were slim she'd have very many kisses like that in her lifetime.
Which is a sad thing when you're only seventeen. -- Cinda Williams Chima
Both Averill and Bayar were like actors speaking lines for their audience and not to each other. -- Cinda Williams Chima
None of us are free to follow our hearts,"she said. "Not really. Is that what you're saying?"
He shook his head. "No one can stop you from loving someone," he said. -- Cinda Williams Chima
If you're scared, you should've stayed at home," Byram said.
"If you're not scared, you're stupid. -- Cinda Williams Chima
If she'd ever hoped to impress Amon Byrne with her newly acquired glamour and beauty, that chance was gone forever. He'd seen her in every kind of ugly. -- Cinda Williams Chima
As if he'd guessed her thoughts, Micah said, "I've risked everything for you." His eyes spoke more than he said aloud. -- Cinda Williams Chima
Words can hurt, but sometimes it's the words you never got to say that hurt the most. -- Cinda Williams Chima
His mood was so black that getting murdered was beginning to seem appealing -- Cinda Williams Chima
Han struggled to remember Master Leontus's lectures on healing, the recitations he'd drowsed through. I'll never have need of that, Han had thought. I'm being trained to kill people, not heal them. He'd thought everyone he'd ever want to heal was already dead.
He'd been wrong. -- Cinda Williams Chima
And then Micah Bayar swept back his cloak and dropped to his knees, bowing his head, his amulet swinging forward. Fiona glared down at him like she wanted to stomp on him.
Ho, Han thought. Micah breaks with his family? That's interesting. -- Cinda Williams Chima
You're a quiet one. You keep to yourself, but when you speak up, you tell the truth: in your music and every other way. -- Cinda Williams Chima
Sometimes she wondered if she was doomed to repeat the mistakes of the past, since she'd trained herself not to look back at it. -- Cinda Williams Chima
Just tell me you don't love me, and I'll let the matter drop."
"What?"
"What I said. Just say, 'Rai, I don't love you and I never will'. It's that simple."
"Raisa, this is getting us nowhere."
"Say it! -- Cinda Williams Chima
Will you give the girl to me?" she said. "Will you let me try?"
He nodded, dizzy with relief. "Please, Willo. Please. Save her. It doesn't matter ... what happens to me. -- Cinda Williams Chima
He would find a way to make it work, because he finally understood that sometimes you have to raise your expectations. And sometimes you need to make a claim on the world and the people you love to get what you most desire -- Cinda Williams Chima
She had never felt more alive than when she lay dying in Han Alister's arms. -- Cinda Williams Chima
Tears stung her eyes. She sank her knees next to the sleeping bench and gently raked strands of golden hair from him forehead.
"Don't you die. don't you dare. I forbid it." As if Han Alister had ever listened to anything she said. -- Cinda Williams Chima
Haven't you heard about me?" he said, with a tight smile. "I'm really a very dangerous person." And he did look dangerous until he said, "Look, could you watch Dog for me while I'm gone? I can't take him where I'm going. -- Cinda Williams Chima
It was a peculiar marriage of interests- Lord Averill and Captain Byrne and Lord Bayar and Han Alister agreeing on anything was as rare as gold in Ragmarket. -- Cinda Williams Chima
Han smiled, then, a bright, charming smile that lit up the room, more dangerous than any blade.
All you ever needed was that smile, she thought. I'd have given in immediately. -- Cinda Williams Chima
It was just a different kind of battle, one he'd have to learn to win -- Cinda Williams Chima
I guess you never think your enemy is as clever as you are. -- Cinda Williams Chima
Allison was at full strength when it came to one thing:attitude. -- Cinda Williams Chima
I can't make you, Rebecca, but you'll probably feel better if you eat. -- Cinda Williams Chima
I go to school here, same as you,' Han said.
Micah blinked at him stupidly, the drink slowing him down. 'You? Do you even know how to read and write? They can't have lowered the standards that much.'
'Well,' Han said, 'they let you in. -- Cinda Williams Chima
The human mind had a remarkable ability both to discount what it sees and make reality conform to expectation. -- Cinda Williams Chima
Raisa's breath caught. "They clubbed you?"
"Well." He looked sideways at her. "If you were any good, they'd miss. -- Cinda Williams Chima
Did the destruction of one dream leave a vacuum that required filling with another? Is a broken heart more vulnerable? -- Cinda Williams Chima
He swept Raisa up into his arms and kissed her like it was his first, last, and only -- Cinda Williams Chima
One more thing: Linda, can you get to Canterbury and take over my Chaucerian Society? They're at Dovecote Hostelry in the old city. We're visiting all the scenes of the great murders. Tomorrow they want to see where Becket was killed. They're a bloodthirsty lot, it seems. -- Cinda Williams Chima
The northern soldiers are just men," Hal told the men in his command. "And women," he amended. "When you cut them, they bleed, just like us. -- Cinda Williams Chima
Mellon is thirteen," Raisa said. "I hope you have experience babysitting, Micah, because you're going to need it. Assuming the Demonai don't assassinate you first. Married at thirteen, widowed at fourteen. Poor Mellony. -- Cinda Williams Chima
The girl must be looking for another hot-fudge shower, Ellen said. Then she, too, advanced on Leesha. -- Cinda Williams Chima
Uh, Miss, you have second and third degree burns that need treatment,"he said.
"They'll be okay. I'll just use concealer for a while. -- Cinda Williams Chima
My mother was from the Fells, but I've never wanted to go. They say there are monsters there."
"There are monsters here, healer. -- Cinda Williams Chima
Why aren't you dead?" Will demanded. -- Cinda Williams Chima
You lying lunatic bastard. They're going to kill you."
"I love you too," he murmured. "Go find Seph. -- Cinda Williams Chima
But maybe it's better to go after something, and not get it, than to not even try. -- Cinda Williams Chima
It doesn't make sense to dwell on things you can't do anything about. -- Cinda Williams Chima
...she'd learned not to ask every question that cane to mind, knowing some things would be understood in their own time -- Cinda Williams Chima
For Hanalea the Warrior! -- Cinda Williams Chima
Friendship didn't mean much if it was inflicted. -- Cinda Williams Chima
I have lost everything, Han thought. Then he corrected himself. Every time I think I've lost everything, I find there's still something else to lose. -- Cinda Williams Chima
Sometimes you have to go somewhere else to appreciate what we have here. -- Cinda Williams Chima
That's what happens when you love someone ... you notice and notice and notice. -- Cinda Williams Chima
And they always slept better with blades beneath their beds. -- Cinda Williams Chima
Crow walked toward her, arms outstretched like a man in a dream, which he was, in a way. Sometimes a dream is enough. -- Cinda Williams Chima
If someone grabs you in the street, hit hard and fast, because you may not get a second chance. -- Cinda Williams Chima
Welcome to life in a small town,' Jack said dryly. 'Where everybody makes it their business to put their noses in yours. -- Cinda Williams Chima
Just remember who you are ... The world will try to change you into someone else. Don't let them. That's the best advice anyone can give you. -- Cinda Williams Chima
Fitch danced on rooftops like some kind of manic digital maestro in a Wi-Fi headset, waving his arms and crying, 'More power! Need more power! -- Cinda Williams Chima
She padded toward Han, barefoot, like a faerie startled out of a forest bower, bewitching mix of clan and flatland beauty. -- Cinda Williams Chima
I continue
to believe in miracles. But i know that miracles come to those
who work very hard -- Cinda Williams Chima
We train in strategy, geography, horsemanship, weaponry, that sort of thing. We study great battles in history and analyze the outcome. The -- Cinda Williams Chima
More and more, there were no revelations, but simply the uncovering of truths long known but dimly remembered. Everything had been written long ago. There was nothing truly new in the world, but only the slow, circular march of time that revealed the old things once again. -- Cinda Williams Chima
Please, Kenzie, Jonah thought. Please, please, please back off from this. His life wasn't much, but it was all he had, this small safe space, walled in by secrets. -- Cinda Williams Chima
I dreamed I read the cards for you," she said.
"And?"
"And I predicted I would bring heartbreak and trouble into your life," she said.
"Too late," he said, staring down at their joined hands. "Heartbreak and trouble got there ahead of you. -- Cinda Williams Chima
They were like two pieces of a failed star, drawn together by a shared history and a memory of illicit kisses. -- Cinda Williams Chima
Weird is good, strange is bad. -- Cinda Williams Chima
Think of what we could accomplish if we were not focused on murdering each other. -- Cinda Williams Chima
Maybe Charlotte was right, and I was hopelessly addicted to breaking rules oprinciple. -- Cinda Williams Chima
I do try to get my own way, but I think it's because I'll never get my way on anything that matters -- Cinda Williams Chima
History,' Mari muttered, as if she'd overheard his thoughts. 'Why do we need to know what happened before we were born?'
'So hopefully we get smarter and don't make the same mistakes again. -- Cinda Williams Chima
The sergeant shrugged, not meeting Amon's eyes. ' ... You'll be shivering all right. Them Waterwalkers'll have you crying for your mommies.'
'I assume you're speaking from experience, sir?' Raisa asked. -- Cinda Williams Chima
He expects nothing, she thought, because he's never had anything. And nothing was expected of him. He was free in a way she never would be. -- Cinda Williams Chima
A vocation is not something you slap on, like a coat of paint, and change whenever you want. A vocation is built into you. You have no choice. If you try to do something else, you fail. -- Cinda Williams Chima
We spend so much of our lives waiting to be ambushed by heartbreak. Why couldn't we be ambushed by joy? -- Cinda Williams Chima
Just because you're the enemy of my enemy don't mean you're my friend, Han thought. -- Cinda Williams Chima
Road trip?"
"I'm going to dig up some dead relatives," she went on, "and ask them where the family money is. -- Cinda Williams Chima
Knowledge is power. In the wrong hands, knowledge is trouble. -- Cinda Williams Chima
Like a stand of lodgepole pines in a gale Raisa's followers all went down leaving her standing alone ... There's no shelter for me not from any of this. I'll stand alone the rest of my life. THE GRAY WOLF THRONE p. 163 -- Cinda Williams Chima
You don't get what you don't go after. -- Cinda Williams Chima
Aftera brief silence, Kenzie said, "Don't you believe in second chances?"
The room seemed a little colder, a little darker, as if a shadow had passed over the sun.
"Sonny Lee always said, 'Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me. -- Cinda Williams Chima
He forgot everything: the sorcerer upstairs, the mission, his own imperfection, and the shame and bitterness that came with it. -- Cinda Williams Chima
I'd rather have a go at life, so there's something to talk about once we're gone. -- Cinda Williams Chima
A girl who would never play in a tournament. She'd been butchered by agents of the Red Rose when they'd been unable to steal her away. -- Cinda Williams Chima
You are my father," she said to Averill. "And you are my grandmother," she said to Elena. "And you are duty-bound to me," she said to Nightwalker.
"If you take action against Hunts Alone without my permission, we will be at war. -- Cinda Williams Chima
As with evil, you never know when you'll be blindsided by kindness. -- Cinda Williams Chima
A fiction writer is never entirely alone. Her characters are constantly whispering in her ear. -- Cinda Williams Chima
Leesha knew from experience that when parents don't parent, kids grow up fast. -- Cinda Williams Chima
Do not
forget duty. But choose love when you can. -- Cinda Williams Chima
Truth be told, Raisa had no intention of marrying anyone any time soon. Her mother was young - she would rule for many years yet, so there was no need to rush into the confinement of marriage. -- Cinda Williams Chima
I thought I could play at love...But I've found out I'm not made that way...I can't play this game if my heart's not in it. -- Cinda Williams Chima
There's something about a roof isn't there? It makes you feel like it doesn't matter what's going on below. All of those things that get in the way of your dreams - you're above them. Anything is possible. -- Cinda Williams Chima
We don't protect them because they're weak. We protect them because they are strong, and strong people make enemies. -- Cinda Williams Chima
We are invited to drink the the king's health.
To his good health or bad health? - Ash -- Cinda Williams Chima
At least I fight my own battles, Alister,' Micah said.
'Really? And exactly why did you go cackling to the dean? -- Cinda Williams Chima
She was supposed to be writing an essay on how geography had shaped the great battles of the past, but she was having trouble concentrating. In fact, all she'd managed so far was a title. How Geography Has Shaped the Great Battles of the Past. -- Cinda Williams Chima
You touch me again, you arrogant Ardenine swine, and I swear on the blood of Hanalea the warrior, I will geld you. Do you understand? -- Cinda Williams Chima
You couldn't keep your mouth shut? I'm calling you Glitterhair from now on. Or Talksalot. -- Cinda Williams Chima
I wish I believed in something, Madison thought. I wish I belonged somewhere. -- Cinda Williams Chima
There's too much to learn in a lifetime. -- Cinda Williams Chima
He keeps this up, he's bound to be caught, she thought. And this time they'll dangle him for certain. -- Cinda Williams Chima
Don't expect much and you won't be disappointed. -- Cinda Williams Chima
He's not lazy. He's just highly inefficient. -- Cinda Williams Chima
Adrian. Adrian was alive, and he was at Oden's Ford. And no one had told her these four long years, because they thought she would do something stupid. -- Cinda Williams Chima
(A)ny time you buy weapons, or build an army, you begin to look for an excuse to use them. Plus, you pose more of a threat to others. -- Cinda Williams Chima
You look like a boy who has eaten the fruit of the tree of knowledge and doesn't like the taste. -- Cinda Williams Chima
In the outer city, the northern accents clamoring around -- Cinda Williams Chima
Oh, I am getting married," Raisa said sleepily. "You promised me that if I agreed to marry you, that you would make it happen." She extended her hand, the one with the ring Han had given her, and waved it under his nose. "So. It's time to pay up. -- Cinda Williams Chima
I have to believe that people can change. That people deserve a second chance. -- Cinda Williams Chima
Just a rat, she repeated to herself. After all, there were rats in the palace. Human and otherwise. Could be worse. -- Cinda Williams Chima
You can't always pick where you fight, or who you fight ... or even ... how you fight. But do the picking ... whenever you can. -- Cinda Williams Chima
Don't pick a fight you can't win. -- Cinda Williams Chima
Sometimes a dream is enough. -- Cinda Williams Chima
Plus he was naturally lucky at cards. As Mam had always said, lucky at cards, or lucky at life. One or the other. Not both. -- Cinda Williams Chima
Well now, Jack," Hastings said from the sidelines. "I'm afraid you've been beheaded. Not a good start." He sounded amused. -- Cinda Williams Chima
Ellen could have killed me," Jack said quietly, "but she didn't. She saved my life."
"How come?" Fitch demanded. "After all this?"
Ellen turned scarlet and stared at the ground. "Maybe none of my opponents ever gave me flowers before," she mumbled. -- Cinda Williams Chima
Nobody's going to hand you anything. You don't get what you don't go after. -- Cinda Williams Chima
Even when we win, we lose, Lyss thought. -- Cinda Williams Chima
If he weren't so thoroughly wrung out, he could kill the bastard on the spot. In his present condition, he'd be lucky to strangle a gnat -- Cinda Williams Chima
Politics is not about justice. It's about the settling of personal vendettas under a thin veneer of civilization. All politics is personal. -- Cinda Williams Chima
Even if the job you're assigned is not to your liking, a Matelon will see it done. -- Cinda Williams Chima
You didn't have to go to the fireworks with him. Or - or let him fondle you."
"Fondle?" Raisa raised her eyebrows, "When did I mention fondling? -- Cinda Williams Chima
I always say yes to the man with the sword. -- Cinda Williams Chima
Revenge is a powerful motivation, especially for someone with nothing to lose. -- Cinda Williams Chima
It was one of the warm nights at the end of summer that makes promises that won't be kept. -- Cinda Williams Chima
Hope is a dangerous thing, Raisa thought. Once kindled, it's hard to put out. It makes wise people into fools. -- Cinda Williams Chima
But adulthood slipped up on you, she thought. It was forced on you whether you liked it or not. -- Cinda Williams Chima
If a lady should do this, Raisa wondered, should a man do the same? Is he required to? -- Cinda Williams Chima
You don't stop being who you are just because you've run away. -- Cinda Williams Chima
It's not about what people think. It's about who you are. -- Cinda Williams Chima
It's not enough to do something. It's important to do the right thing. -- Cinda Williams Chima
So you questioned him?" Raisa prompted. "What did he say for himself?"
"Well, the first thing Gillen does is steal his purse and beat him with a club." Amon said. -- Cinda Williams Chima
Cat scowled at him. Why would I say anything about you? You think the whole world's sniffing your butt? -- Cinda Williams Chima
The things you don't like talking about would fill a library."
"That's the kind of life I've had, all right? -- Cinda Williams Chima
Come on! We've had too many dead heroes. Being a coward increases your odds of survival-that's my motto. I'm counting on bieng faster than them. -- Cinda Williams Chima
Jason felt humiliated and frustrated. Rejected by a rock. -- Cinda Williams Chima
We're all dangerous in our own way, I guess. -- Cinda Williams Chima
I like rough edges. That's what makes a person real. -- Cinda Williams Chima
Then talk to Hastings."
Leesha flinched. "He's so scary, you know? -- Cinda Williams Chima
What kind of love would drive a man for miles through solid rock? -- Cinda Williams Chima
You don't have to understand, you just have to survive. -- Cinda Williams Chima
But sometimes we get the maddest at the people we love the most. -- Cinda Williams Chima
Falling in love was like falling off a cliff. It felt pretty much like flying until you hit the ground. -- Cinda Williams Chima
There was something savage and elemental and feral in him. The fact that he was a savant only added to the intrigue.
I always go for the dangerous boys, Leesha thought. -- Cinda Williams Chima
Getawayfrommeyoumiserablelittlecreep. -- Cinda Williams Chima
Why is it always easier to be optimistic about somebody else's worries?" Adrian said with a bitter laugh. -- Cinda Williams Chima
Fitch is on his way. He's coming after he blows up some wizards. -- Cinda Williams Chima
It had been weeks since anyone had even tried to kill him. As long as someone was trying to kill you, you knew you were important. -- Cinda Williams Chima
Do you think I'm stupid? Only a fool would use a fast-acting poison on a target with a taster. The taster goes down before the king gets it into his system.
Lila blinked at him, as if surprised by this display of logic. -- Cinda Williams Chima
Is it all right if I call you Jenna?" he asked.
"If I can call you Wolf," she said.
He scowled, gritting his teeth. "Could you please call me Adam?"
"All right," she said. "I will try and think of you as a wolf called Adam. -- Cinda Williams Chima
We'll have supper in a little while, but I believe we should eat dessert first. -- Cinda Williams Chima
I don't believe in trading in your future for a little extra power in the present. -- Cinda Williams Chima
She could hear the rattle of hooves on stone evolve into a thunder of pursuit. -- Cinda Williams Chima
I have to think it's possible to suffer a great wrong and walk away from it. To build a life of small, exquisitely important moments. -- Cinda Williams Chima
But I don't want your throne." "Then what do you want?" "You. -- Cinda Williams Chima
Stupid. He was stupid. He was tired of being stupid. -- Cinda Williams Chima
I need to go to parties, Raisa mused, so I don't think so much. -- Cinda Williams Chima
We may all end up dead, but we're sticking it to them in the meantime. -- Cinda Williams Chima
How'd it go with Leesha?"
"It was great! We were bad cop and bad cop! -- Cinda Williams Chima
They fought for glory, but not for blood. -- Cinda Williams Chima
You do not respond to an attempt on your life with a slap on the hand. Or a joke. -- Cinda Williams Chima
She could Captain to his Your Majesty any time. -- Cinda Williams Chima
But it's not enough to know right from wrong. You need the strength to do what's right, even when what you want most in the world is the wrong thing. -- Cinda Williams Chima
Her clothes still smoked from the wizard's assault. But to him, she always smelled of flowers. -- Cinda Williams Chima
It's true what they say, then-history is written by the victors. -- Cinda Williams Chima
I've found it wise to enjoy any time of truce, while recognizing it for what it is. A truce. -- Cinda Williams Chima
Well, all right, Ash thought. Maybe freeing the dragon wasn't such a good idea. -- Cinda Williams Chima
I like to know the truth. That's all. I just wish the truth was different. -- Cinda Williams Chima
If you want to be a writer, you must be in love with the process of writing, whether you achieve financial success or not. -- Cinda Williams Chima
Either he's lying, which is bad. Or he could be telling the truth, which is worse -- Cinda Williams Chima
How loud did the music have to be to drown out her thoughts? -- Cinda Williams Chima
The answer is no, I would rather marry the Demon King himself than marry you. I
suggest you look elsewhere for a bride. And heaven help the one you choose. -- Cinda Williams Chima
The problem is, hope is the thing that can't be reined in by rules or pinned down by bitter experience. It's a blessing and curse. -- Cinda Williams Chima
His name was Theo. -- Cinda Williams Chima
You can't give evil free reign because you're afraid to confront it. -- Cinda Williams Chima
Maybe the hardest lesson Han had learned was that nobody is purely bad or good. Everybody seemed to be a mixture of both. -- Cinda Williams Chima
