Quotes from Cinda Williams Chima

We may all end up dead, but we're sticking it to them in the meantime.

Strong men do choose strong women, he thought. It's only the weak that are threatened by them.

I like rough edges. That's what makes a person real.

Uh, Miss, you have second and third degree burns that need treatment,"he said. "They'll be okay. I'll just use concealer for a while.

There were two more cars parked in the lot than when Seph and Madison had arrived. One was the old Jeep that Will and Ellen shared. The other one was unfamiliar, a black minivan with a rent-a-car sticker. It must belong to the alumni, Seph thought. At least he hoped so, because he melted all four tires.

As was his custom, Han stood propped against the wall, looking as ruthless as possible.

Sometimes she wondered if she was doomed to repeat the mistakes of the past, since she'd trained herself not to look back at it.

I guess you never think your enemy is as clever as you are.

I have to think it's possible to suffer a great wrong and walk away from it. To build a life of small, exquisitely important moments.

I learned a long time ago that it's not our fault if our parents are monsters. We can't take responsibility for that, or we're twice damaged. All we can do is try to go forward in a different way.

How dare you?' Bayar began, but his voice had lost some of its force. 'How dare you come into this sacred hall, flinging accusations?' 'I have not yet made any accusations,' Willo said. 'Perhaps it is our own guilt clamoring in your ears.

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

We are invited to drink the the king's health." To his good health or bad health? - Ash

That's the thing about guilt," his father said. "It always seems like there's enough to go around. The only ones who don't take a share are the ones who are actually guilty.

But sometimes we get the maddest at the people we love the most.

I like to know the truth. That's all. I just wish the truth was different.

She needed a world without so many standards and restrictions and expectations–one more friendly to a girl who thought differently from other people.

From day to day he slid out of one skin and pulled on another. No wonder it was hard to sort out who he was.

Didn't you say that the key is to live in the moment?" Metelon asked. "That's the excuse people use for foolish behavior.

You're a quiet one. You keep to yourself, but when you speak up, you tell the truth: in your music and every other way.

That's what makes us human. Feeling things–even pain. That's what music does, if it's any good: it makes you feel things. You listen to a song, and somehow you know what that person was going through when he wrote it. Or maybe it puts a name to what you're feeling. And because you can share that, you don't feel so alone.

Please, Kenzie, Jonah thought. Please, please, please back off from this. His life wasn't much, but it was all he had, this small safe space, walled in by secrets.

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

Then talk to Hastings." Leesha flinched. "He's so scary, you know?