289 Quotes by Cinda Williams Chima

It was just a different kind of battle, one he’d have to learn to win.

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.

There needed to be places like this – places to read and write and study and argue and debate with all different kinds of people and not to have to look over your shoulder all the time. Places where the desire for knowledge overwhelmed boundaries and differences.

As with evil, you never know when you’ll be blindsided by kindness.

Sometimes a dream is enough.

Demons!′ someone shouted in the common speech. ‘Sorcerers! Blasphemers!’ Han looked up in surprise to see the black-robed priest charging down the steps, swinging the broom over his head like a weapon, his face contorted with rage.

I’m thinking that there are other reasons not to murder people beyond the fact that there’s no.

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

I didn’t do anything,” Han complained, the refrain of his entire life.