289 Quotes by Cinda Williams Chima

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

Like everyone else at the Anchorage, except maybe for Natalie, Jonah had developed the blinders that allowed him to dance on. That prevented him from seeing the gradual decline of everyone around him; that allowed him to pretend that they weren't all heading for the same tragic end. The band played on as the ship sank beneath them. Distracted by the magic of music, they would keep dancing until the waves closed over their heads.

You are not being paid to make assumptions

Admit nothing - that was his first rule. Appeal to logic - second rule. Delay the inevitable - third rule.

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.

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.

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

Adrian. Adrian was alive, and he was at Oden’s Ford. And no one had told her these four long years, because they thought she would do something stupid.

Even when we win, we lose, Lyss thought.