289 Quotes by Cinda Williams Chima

Well, all right, Ash thought. Maybe freeing the dragon wasn’t such a good idea.

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.

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

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

As I said, history is written by the victors. The truth is, the villains were less villainous, and the heroes less heroic, than you’ve been told.

A battle is like a deadly sort of dance, Lyss thought. We learn the steps by sparring in the practice yards, by marching up and down the field in the hope that we’ll remember the moves when we’re distracted by the smell of blood and the shrieks of the wounded anddeath howling toward us from all sides. We go into battle to the cadence of drums and guns, but our dance cards are blank. We have no idea who we’ll dance with that day, when death might cut in, and who’ll leave the floor alive.

Leesha knew from experience that when parents don’t parent, kids grow up fast.

Friendship didn’t mean much if it was inflicted.

Hope is a dangerous thing, Raisa thought. Once kindled, it’s hard to put out. It makes wise people into fools.