Cinda Williams Chima: Trending quotes (page 3)

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“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?”

“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.”

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

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

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

“Politics is not about justice. It's about the settling of personal vendettas under a thin veneer of civilization. All politics is personal.”

“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.”

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

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

“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”

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

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

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

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

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