Cinda Williams Chima Quotes (68 quotes)

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“Falling in love was like falling off a cliff. It felt pretty much like flying until you hit the ground.”

Source: The Dragon Heir

“Hope is a dangerous thing, Raisa thought. Once kindled, it's hard to put out. It makes wise people into fools.”

Source: The Crimson Crown

“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

Source: The Gray Wolf Throne

“Jason felt humiliated and frustrated. Rejected by a rock.”

Cinda Williams Chima

Source: The Dragon Heir

“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

Source: The Gray Wolf Throne

“Why aren't you dead?" Will demanded.”

Cinda Williams Chima

Source: The Warrior Heir

Cinda Williams Chima Quotes about love

“You lying lunatic bastard. They're going to kill you."
"I love you too," he murmured. "Go find Seph.”

Cinda Williams Chima

Source: The Dragon Heir

“That's what happens when you love someone… you notice and notice and notice.”

Cinda Williams Chima

Source: The Crimson Crown

“What kind of love would drive a man for miles through solid rock?”

Cinda Williams Chima

Source: The Crimson Crown

“The time will come when you will be forced to make a choice,” Hanalea said. “When that time comes, choose love.”

Cinda Williams Chima

Source: The Gray Wolf Throne

“Do not
forget duty. But choose love when you can.”

Cinda Williams Chima

Source: The Gray Wolf Throne

“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

Source: The Wizard Heir

Cinda Williams Chima Quotes about the trip

“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

“Fitch is on his way. He's coming after he blows up some wizards.”

Cinda Williams Chima

Source: The Dragon Heir

“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

Source: The Crimson Crown

“The only way to get what you want is to make them more afraid of you than they are of each other.”

Cinda Williams Chima

Source: The Crimson Crown

“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

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“Weird is good, strange is bad.”

Cinda Williams Chima

“He's not lazy. He's just highly inefficient.”

Cinda Williams Chima

Source: The Warrior Heir

“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

Source: The Exiled Queen

Cinda Williams Chima Quotes

“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

Source: The Warrior Heir

“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

Variant: The world will try to change you into someone else. Don't let them. That's the best advice anyone can give you.
Source: The Warrior Heir

“Don't expect much and you won't be disappointed.”

Cinda Williams Chima

Variant: Don't expect much, and you won't be disappointed.
Source: The Wizard Heir

“She had never felt more alive than when she lay dying in Han Alister's arms.”

Cinda Williams Chima

Source: The Gray Wolf Throne

“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

Source: The Warrior Heir

“Nobody's going to hand you anything. You don't get what you don't go after.”

Cinda Williams Chima

Source: The Exiled Queen

“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

Source: The Exiled Queen

“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

Source: The Crimson Crown

“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

Source: The Gray Wolf Throne

“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

Source: The Gray Wolf Throne

“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

Source: The Exiled Queen

“But maybe it's better to go after something, and not get it, than to not even try.”

Cinda Williams Chima

Source: The Crimson Crown

“But I don't want your throne."
"Then what do you want?"
"You.”

Cinda Williams Chima

Source: The Crimson Crown

“And they always slept better with blades beneath their beds.”

Cinda Williams Chima

Source: The Warrior Heir

“You couldn’t keep your mouth shut? I’m calling you Glitterhair from now on. Or Talksalot.”

Cinda Williams Chima

Source: The Exiled Queen

“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

Source: The Exiled Queen

“He swept Raisa up into his arms and kissed her like it was his first, last, and only”

Cinda Williams Chima

Source: The Crimson Crown

“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

Source: The Exiled Queen

“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

Source: The Demon King

“Did the destruction of one dream leave a vacuum that required filling with another? Is a broken heart more vulnerable?”

Cinda Williams Chima

Source: The Exiled Queen

“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

Source: The Crimson Crown

“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

Source: The Demon King

“They were like two pieces of a failed star, drawn together by a shared history and a memory of illicit kisses.”

Cinda Williams Chima

Source: The Crimson Crown

“Admit nothing - that was his first rule. Appeal to logic - second rule. Delay the inevitable - third rule.”

Cinda Williams Chima

Source: The Wizard Heir

“She couldto hisany time.”

Cinda Williams Chima

Source: The Crimson Crown

“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

Source: The Gray Wolf Throne

“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

Source: The Exiled Queen

“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

Source: The Dragon Heir

“I need to go to parties, Raisa mused, so I don't think so much.”

Cinda Williams Chima

Source: The Demon King

“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

Source: The Exiled Queen

“Sometimes you have to go somewhere else to appreciate what we have here.”

Cinda Williams Chima

Source: The Dragon Heir

“I continue
to believe in miracles. But i know that miracles come to those
who work very hard”

Cinda Williams Chima

Source: The Gray Wolf Throne

“She padded toward Han, barefoot, like a faerie startled out of a forest bower, bewitching mix of clan and flatland beauty.”

Cinda Williams Chima

Source: The Crimson Crown

“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

Source: The Crimson Crown

“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

Source: The Exiled Queen

“Just because you're the enemy of my enemy don't mean you're my friend, Han thought.”

Cinda Williams Chima

Source: The Exiled Queen

“Both Averill and Bayar were like actors speaking lines for their audience and not to each other.”

Cinda Williams Chima

Source: The Gray Wolf Throne

“You can't always pickyou fight, oryou fight… or even… you fight. But do the picking… whenever you can.”

Cinda Williams Chima

Source: The Warrior Heir

“Just a rat, she repeated to herself. After all, there were rats in the palace. Human and otherwise. Could be worse.”

Cinda Williams Chima

Source: The Demon King

“The human mind had a remarkable ability both to discount what it sees and make reality conform to expectation.”

Cinda Williams Chima

Source: The Warrior Heir

“For Hanalea the Warrior!”

Cinda Williams Chima

Source: The Crimson Crown

“It was one of the warm nights at the end of summer that makes promises that won't be kept.”

Cinda Williams Chima

Source: The Wizard Heir

“You look like a boy who has eaten the fruit of the tree of knowledge and doesn't like the taste.”

Cinda Williams Chima

Source: The Warrior Heir

“Grief was like that. It gradually faded into a dull ache, until some simple sight or sound or scent hit him like a hammer blow.”

Cinda Williams Chima

Source: The Exiled Queen

“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

Source: The Gray Wolf Throne

“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

Source: Flamecaster

“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

Source: The Gray Wolf Throne

“Which is a sad thing when you're only seventeen.”

Cinda Williams Chima

Source: The Exiled Queen

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