Quotes from Cinda Williams Chima

Maybe you're the one that gave me up to the Darians at Oden's Ford." "Right," she said, staring up at the ceiling. "And then I turned around and rescued you. You know women—changeable as a day in April. Sometimes we just can't make up our minds.

Don't ask for the truth, boy, unless you're ready to hear it.

He radiated a calm focus--like he knew who he was and where he was going. He was a steady mooring in a sea of change. Hr was honest and kept his word, and he was unrelentingly fair. It made people want to follow him.

Why is it always easier to be optimistic about somebody else's worries?" Adrian said with a bitter laugh.

You do not respond to an attempt on your life with a slap on the hand. Or a joke.

You need the strength to do what's right, even when what you want most in the world is the wrong thing.

To be honest, I thought of you as an amateur - a spoiled, entitled, runaway princeling bent on revenge who would get caught and then complicate my elegant scheme. I figured the less you knew, the better." "I hate it when you sugarcoat things," Ash said.

If someone grabs you in the street, hit hard and fast, because you may not get a second chance.

None of us are free to follow our hearts,"she said. "Not really. Is that what you're saying?" He shook his head. "No one can stop you from loving someone," he said.

It's true what they say, then-history is written by the victors.

If she'd ever hoped to impress Amon Byrne with her newly acquired glamour and beauty, that chance was gone forever. He'd seen her in every kind of ugly.

I do try to get my own way, but I think it's because I'll never get my way on anything that matters

It's not enough to do something. It's important to do the right thing.

We'll have supper in a little while, but I believe we should eat dessert first.

I don't believe in trading in your future for a little extra power in the present.

Fitch danced on rooftops like some kind of manic digital maestro in a Wi-Fi headset, waving his arms and crying, 'More power! Need more power!

You ever notice how sometimes, in the middle of July, right downtown, you'll see a flower poking up through a crack in the asphalt. And you think, What a stupid place to set down roots. It'll get run over, or it'll dry up and blow away. But it hangs on, and it grows, and it blooms. Somehow, against the odds, it finds what it needs and it makes that place better for being there.

They fought for glory, but not for blood. They were Weirlind, heirs of the warrior's stone. And they always slept better with blades beneath their beds.

Can you imagine it, Alister? Can you imagine what it was like for a shade like me to experience the world again through all of your senses- vision and touch, and smell and taste and hearing?" "I wouldn't have gone to the library, I'll tell you that," Han said. Crow laughed. "I like you, Alister. All of this would have been easier if you were unlikable. And stupid. You would have been considerably more tractable.

She could hear the rattle of hooves on stone evolve into a thunder of pursuit.

I have to believe that people can change. That people deserve a second chance.

Knowledge is power. In the wrong hands, knowledge is trouble.

He shook his head, ripping his hands free. "I just went to pick it up." He felt humiliated and frustrated. Rejected by a ROCK.

Think of what we could accomplish if we were not focused on murdering each other.