289 Quotes by Cinda Williams Chima

You need the strength to do what’s right, even when what you want most in the world is the wrong thing.

When you love someone it catches the attention of the Gods, who punish you.

The problem is, hope is the thing that can’t be reined in by rules or pinned down by bitter experience. It’s a blessing and curse.

A girl who would never play in a tournament. She’d been butchered by agents of the Red Rose when they’d been unable to steal her away.

Words can hurt, but sometimes it’s the words you never got to say that hurt the most.

Please, Kenzie, Jonah thought. Please, please, please back off from this. His life wasn’t much, but it was all he had, this small safe space, walled in by secrets.

All we can do is make the best decision possible in that moment. Then move on. Because we can’t know how a different choice would play out, it makes no sense to beat ourselves up over what looks like a bad choice in retrospect.

You’re a quiet one. You keep to yourself, but when you speak up, you tell the truth: in your music and every other way.

You couldn’t keep your mouth shut? I’m calling you Glitterhair from now on. Or Talksalot.