Cinda Williams Chima quotes

But it's not enough to know right from wrong. You need the strength to do what's right, even when what you want most in the world is the wrong thing. (Cinda Williams Chima)
A vocation is not something you slap on, like a coat of paint, and change whenever you want. A vocation is built into you. You have no choice. If you try to do something else, you fail.
Cinda Williams Chima
Admit nothing - that was his first rule. Appeal to logic - second rule. Delay the inevitable - third rule.
Cinda Williams Chima
Falling in love was like falling off a cliff. It felt pretty much like flying until you hit the ground.
Cinda Williams Chima
Hope is a dangerous thing, Raisa thought. Once kindled, it's hard to put out. It makes wise people into fools.
Cinda Williams Chima
You look like a boy who has eaten the fruit of the tree of knowledge and doesn't like the taste.
Cinda Williams Chima
That's what happens when you love someone... you notice and notice and notice.
Cinda Williams Chima
And they always slept better with blades beneath their beds.
Cinda Williams Chima
Which is a sad thing when you're only seventeen.
Cinda Williams Chima
He would find a way to make it work, because he finally understood that sometimes you have to raise your expectations. And sometimes you need to make a claim on the world and the people you love to get what you most desire.
Cinda Williams Chima
And it's not just a matter of you hurting me. I will hurt you too, even if I don't want to, I'm not the girl you think I am. And you will remember this conversation, and wish that you'd listened to me. (Cinda Williams Chima)
Did the destruction of one dream leave a vacuum that required filling with another? Is a broken heart more vulnerable?
Cinda Williams Chima
She had never felt more alive than when she lay dying in Han Alister's arms.
Cinda Williams Chima
The human mind had a remarkable ability both to discount what it sees and make reality conform to expectation.
Cinda Williams Chima
The only way to get what you want is to make them more afraid of you than they are of each other.
Cinda Williams Chima
There's something about a roof isn't there? It makes you feel like it doesn't matter what's going on below. All of those things that get in the way of your dreams - you're above them. Anything is possible.
Cinda Williams Chima
They were like two pieces of a failed star, drawn together by a shared history and a memory of illicit kisses.
Cinda Williams Chima
I live in the present because the future is always chancy. When it comes to being with you, I'm willing to take the risk.
Cinda Williams Chima
Sometimes you have to go somewhere else to appreciate what we have here.
Cinda Williams Chima
Just a rat, she repeated to herself. After all, there were rats in the palace. Human and otherwise. Could be worse.
Cinda Williams Chima
He swept Raisa up into his arms and kissed her like it was his first, last, and only. (Cinda Williams Chima)
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.
Cinda Williams Chima
Don't expect much and you won't be disappointed.
Cinda Williams Chima
Nobody's going to hand you anything. You don't get what you don't go after.
Cinda Williams Chima
But maybe it's better to go after something, and not get it, than to not even try.
Cinda Williams Chima