289 Quotes by Cinda Williams Chima

You don’t have to understand, you just have to survive.

The human mind had a remarkable ability both to discount what it sees and make reality conform to expectation.

It’s not just the real, but the perspective of real that counts. If people perceive you as weak, then you are weak, even if it’s a survival strategy.

His smile – crooked and cynical and too familiar with the world – and at the same time full of hope.

Just a rat, she repeated to herself. After all, there were rats in the palace. Human and otherwise. Could be worse.

You look like a boy who has eaten the fruit of the tree of knowledge and doesn’t like the taste.

It’s not about what people think. It’s about who you are.

His mood was so black that getting murdered was beginning to seem appealing.

Maybe none of my opponents ever gave me flowers before,” she mumbled.