Quotes from Cinda Williams Chima

I've found it wise to enjoy any time of truce, while recognizing it for what it is. A truce.

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.

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.

But adulthood slipped up on you, she thought. It was forced on you whether you liked it or not.

He keeps this up, he's bound to be caught, she thought. And this time they'll dangle him for certain.

Leicester stared fixedly at the image before him, the color bleached from his face by its brilliance. Seph sensed the headmaster's mind questing out, trying to discover and destroy the wizard behind the image, but finding nothing, no trail of magic, no stone, no flesh and blood to focus on. Jason Haley, the puppeteer, was safely ensconced in the gallery above.

N'exigez pas beaucoup et vous ne serez pas decu. Don't expect much, and you won't be disappointed.

You don't stop being who you are just because you've run away.

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.

Well, all right, Ash thought. Maybe freeing the dragon wasn't such a good idea.

If I could destroy the world, don't you think I could fight off the queen of the Fells?" Crow snorted.

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.

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.

Is it really your intention to be a soldier, Morley?" Askell asked. "Wouldn't it make more sense for you to study the softer sciences? Healing, art, and philosophy are all important topics. That's a more typical course of study for those of your station." "My station or my gender, sir?" Rasia said. "You've said Wien House is full of thanelings and dukes. I can think of only one way in which they are different from me.

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.

Her clothes still smoked from the wizard's assault. But to him, she always smelled of flowers.

His mood was so black that getting murdered was beginning to seem appealing

Surround yourselves with trustworthy people. If you don't, all the weaponry and tactics in the world can't save you.

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

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.

My mother was from the Fells, but I've never wanted to go. They say there are monsters there." "There are monsters here, healer.

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.

Words can hurt, but sometimes it's the words you never got to say that hurt the most.

If you're scared, you should've stayed at home," Byram said. "If you're not scared, you're stupid.