289 Quotes by Cinda Williams Chima

Emma was horrified and transfixed at the same time. She was watching Jonah Kinlock doing what he did best. There was a certain macabre beauty in watching form and function wedded together. In Jonah’s case, a dance of beauty and death.

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

She was supposed to be writing an essay on how geography had shaped the great battles of the past, but she was having trouble concentrating. In fact, all she’d managed so far was a title. “How Geography Has Shaped the Great Battles of the Past.

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

Jason felt humiliated and frustrated. Rejected by a rock.

But adulthood slipped up on you, she thought. It was forced on you whether you liked it or not.

Don’t pick a fight you can’t win.

He’d always found that he learned more if he kept quiet.

If he weren’t so thoroughly wrung out, he could kill the bastard on the spot. In his present condition, he’d be lucky to strangle a gnat.