Cinda Williams Chima Quotes

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Dreams Sleep Warrior

Han spotted a child‟s homespun dolly in the ditch, pressed into the mud. He reined in, meaning to climb down and fetch it so he could clean it up for his little sister. Then he remembered that Mari was dead and had no need of dollies anymore. Grief was like that. It gradually faded into a dull ache, until some simple sight or sound or scent hit him like a hammer blow.

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Children, Grief, Blow

Cinda Williams Chima (2011). “The Exiled Queen (The Seven Realms Series, Book 2)”, p.12, HarperCollins UK

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Nobody's going to hand you anything. You don't get what you don't go after.

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Hands

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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.

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Giving, Advice, Trying

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But maybe it's better to go after something, and not get it, than to not even try.

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Trying

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Will you give the girl to me?" she said. "Will you let me try?" He nodded, dizzy with relief. "Please, Willo. Please. Save her. It doesn't matter...what happens to me.

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Girl, Giving, Trying

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Ellen could have killed me," Jack said quietly, "but she didn't. She saved my life." "How come?" Fitch demanded. "After all this?" Ellen turned scarlet and stared at the ground. "Maybe none of my opponents ever gave me flowers before," she mumbled.

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Flower, Opponents, Said

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And, like a fool, she kissed him back. Kissed him a way that would leave no doubt about the way she felt about him. Kissed him because she knew the chances were slim she'd have very many kisses like that in her lifetime. Which is a sad thing when you're only seventeen.

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Kissing, Doubt, Slim

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Whoa, Rebecca," Talia said smiling even wider, "Walking on the wild side, are we?" Raisa seemed to think the situation needed more explaining. "He - uh - I'm tutoring him." "She is," Han said solemnly. "She's very good. I'm learning a lot." Pearlie snickered. "What's she teaching you?" "Well," Han said, "we're jumping around a lot.

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Teaching, Thinking, Jumping

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The time will come when you will be forced to make a choice,” Hanalea said. “When that time comes, choose love.

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Choices, Said

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I need to go to parties, Raisa mused, so I don't think so much.

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Party, Thinking, Needs

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She had never felt more alive than when she lay dying in Han Alister's arms.

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Dying, Alive, Arms

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Tears stung her eyes. She sank her knees next to the sleeping bench and gently raked strands of golden hair from him forehead. "Don't you die. don't you dare. I forbid it." As if Han Alister had ever listened to anything she said.

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Sleep, Eye, Hair

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If he even survives." She shivered, and Amon put his arm around her, drawing her into his steady warmth. "It's that bad?" Raisa nodded. "He looked...he looked awful, Amon. Willo doesn't know if he'll...She's worried about him. My mother died, and I never got to tell her that I loved her, that I finally understood - just a little anyway. If Han dies too, I don't know what I'll do.

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Mother, Drawing, Arms

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It was one of the warm nights at the end of summer that makes promises that won't be kept.

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Summer, Night, Promise

Cinda Williams Chima (2011). “The Wizard Heir”, p.243, Hachette UK

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You didn't have to go to the fireworks with him. Or - or let him fondle you." "Fondle?" Raisa raised her eyebrows, "When did I mention fondling?

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Eyebrows, Fireworks, Raised

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My tagline is ‘Less sex, more romance, lower body count.’

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Sex, Romance, Body

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Han made no effort to put up a brave front. Most of the time he just screamed himself hoarse, though a couple of times he amused himself by screaming Fionas's name as if he were in the throes of passion. FEEE-OHHH-NAAA! Lord Bayar made him pay for that, but afterward, Fiona didn't come down anymore, which Han appreciated.

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Couple, Passion, Names

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History,' Mari muttered, as if she'd overheard his thoughts. 'Why do we need to know what happened before we were born?' 'So hopefully we get smarter and don't make the same mistakes again.

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Mistake, Needs, Born

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But I don't want your throne." "Then what do you want?" "You.

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Thrones, Want

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You look like a boy who has eaten the fruit of the tree of knowledge and doesn't like the taste.

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Boys, Tree, Looks

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Haven't you heard about me?" he said, with a tight smile. "I'm really a very dangerous person." And he did look dangerous until he said, "Look, could you watch Dog for me while I'm gone? I can't take him where I'm going.

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Dog, Watches, Looks

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The only way to get what you want is to make them more afraid of you than they are of each other.

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Words Of Wisdom, Want, Way

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Just because you're the enemy of my enemy don't mean you're my friend, Han thought.

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Mean, Enemy, My Friends

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Falling in love was like falling off a cliff. It felt pretty much like flying until you hit the ground.

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Falling In Love, Flying, Cliffs

Cinda Williams Chima (2011). “The Dragon Heir”, p.291, Hachette UK

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A fiction writer is never entirely alone. Her characters are constantly whispering in her ear.

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Character, Fiction, Ears

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