Quotes from Cinda Williams Chima

If you beat somebody at the thing they're best at, they're more likely to give way.

He'd serve himself, waiting and watching until he could take advantage. He wouldn't play the fool anymore.

Han wasn't used to sharing territory with an enemy. You drove him out, or he drove you out. You hushed him or he hushed you, and life went on. For one of you.

Sneaking in and out of places was a skill that Han had mastered at a young age. All his life, people had been trying to keep him inside places he didn't want to be, or out of places he needed to get into.

Your business? Which is?" "

The more important you are, the later you arrive.

We are all thieves of one kind or another.

I always say yes to the man with the sword," Han said.

We train in strategy, geography, horsemanship, weaponry, that sort of thing. We study great battles in history and analyze the outcome. The

It wasn't enough to be on the winning side. He would do whatever necessary to make sure he, Han Alister, came out on top.

Guess you're not used to targets that shoot back.

The queen of the Fells is both the most powerful and the least free person in the entire queendom.She is a slave to duty once she comes of age.

La esperanza es una cosa peligrosa, pensó Raisa. Una vez encendida es difícil de apagar. Vuelve a las personas sabias en necios.

Esas botas están hechas por artesanos del clan- diría su madre-. ¿Sabes lo que cuestan?¿Piensas que me sobra el dinero? El que no hubiera tenido que pagarlas carecía de importancia.

His smile—crooked and cynical and too familiar with the world—and at the same time full of hope.

No hay nadie más peligroso que aquel a quien las esperanzas se le han convertido en desesperación.

Just remember who you are. The world will try to change you.into someone else. Don't let them. Theat's the bst advice anyone can give you.

No basta con distinguir el bien del mal. Necesitas el coraje necesario para hacerlo correcto, incluso cuando lo que más quieres en este mundo es hacer lo que está mal.

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." Nick Snowbeard

But just before she could move, Amon paused in the midst of a sequence, the staff horizontal in front of him, head cocked. He flipped the quarterstaff to a vertical position, turned and looked directly at where Raisa was hiding. "Rai?" he whispered.

Maybe Charlotte was right, and I was hopelessly addicted to breaking rules oprinciple.

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.

And so... a year later... I am back where I started. Contemplating a forced marriage between us.' She looked up at Micah, blinking away tears. "Turning my back on my clan heritage." Micah had the grace to look uncomfortable. 'I wish it were otherwise. I wish that you loved me.

Even when we win, we lose, Lyss thought.