Cinda Williams Chima citations

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“je ne sais quois.”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Maybe the hardest lesson Han had learned was that nobody is purely bad or good. Everybody seemed to be a mixture of both.”

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