Cinda Williams Chima
Han spotted a child‟s homespun dolly in the ditch, pressed into the mud. He reined in, meaning to climb down and fetch it so he could clean it up for his little sister. Then he remembered that Mari was dead and had no need of dollies anymore. Grief was like that. It gradually faded into a dull ache, until some simple sight or sound or scent hit him like a hammer blow.Collection: Children
But maybe it's better to go after something, and not get it, than to not even try.Collection: Trying
Nobody's going to hand you anything. You don't get what you don't go after.Collection: Hands
Ellen could have killed me," Jack said quietly, "but she didn't. She saved my life." "How come?" Fitch demanded. "After all this?" Ellen turned scarlet and stared at the ground. "Maybe none of my opponents ever gave me flowers before," she mumbled.Collection: Flower
Just remember who you are... The world will try to change you into someone else. Don't let them. That's the best advice anyone can give you.Collection: Giving
I'd rather have a go at life, so there's something to talk about once we're gone.Collection: Gone
How'd it go with Leesha?" "It was great! We were bad cop and bad cop!Collection: Cop
Don't expect much and you won't be disappointed.Collection: Disappointed
He's not lazy. He's just highly inefficient.Collection: Lazy
Will you give the girl to me?" she said. "Will you let me try?" He nodded, dizzy with relief. "Please, Willo. Please. Save her. It doesn't matter...what happens to me.Collection: Girl
And, like a fool, she kissed him back. Kissed him a way that would leave no doubt about the way she felt about him. Kissed him because she knew the chances were slim she'd have very many kisses like that in her lifetime. Which is a sad thing when you're only seventeen.Collection: Kissing
My tagline is ‘Less sex, more romance, lower body count.’Collection: Sex
A fiction writer is never entirely alone. Her characters are constantly whispering in her ear.Collection: Character
You couldn’t keep your mouth shut? I’m calling you Glitterhair from now on. Or Talksalot.Collection: Calling
A vocation is not something you slap on, like a coat of paint, and change whenever you want. A vocation is built into you. You have no choice. If you try to do something else, you fail.Collection: Choices
His aster-blue eyes shown out from a face blackened by bruises and soot, his fair hair glittering in the firelight. Dressed all in black, silhouetted against flame, he looked rather like a demon, raised from the dead, trading for souls on the other side.Collection: Eye
If he even survives." She shivered, and Amon put his arm around her, drawing her into his steady warmth. "It's that bad?" Raisa nodded. "He looked...he looked awful, Amon. Willo doesn't know if he'll...She's worried about him. My mother died, and I never got to tell her that I loved her, that I finally understood - just a little anyway. If Han dies too, I don't know what I'll do.Collection: Mother
Admit nothing - that was his first rule. Appeal to logic - second rule. Delay the inevitable - third rule.Collection: Delay
Weird is good, strange is bad.Collection: Strange
We may all end up dead, but we're sticking it to them in the meantime.Collection: May
Falling in love was like falling off a cliff. It felt pretty much like flying until you hit the ground.Collection: Falling In Love
Jason settled back on the bench. 'I hate to break this to you, but as a rule, wizards are nasty people. They're powerful, capricious, ruthless, egotistical, used to getting their own way. That's being kind.Collection: Powerful
Jason felt humiliated and frustrated. Rejected by a rock.Collection: Rocks
Haven't you heard about me?" he said, with a tight smile. "I'm really a very dangerous person." And he did look dangerous until he said, "Look, could you watch Dog for me while I'm gone? I can't take him where I'm going.Collection: Dog
He would find a way to make it work, because he finally understood that sometimes you have to raise your expectations. And sometimes you need to make a claim on the world and the people you love to get what you most desireCollection: People
I have lost everything, Han thought. Then he corrected himself. Every time I think I’ve lost everything, I find there’s still something else to lose.Collection: Thinking
The only way to get what you want is to make them more afraid of you than they are of each other.Collection: Words Of Wisdom
If you want to be a writer, you must be in love with the process of writing, whether you achieve financial success or not.Collection: Writing
There's something about a roof isn't there? It makes you feel like it doesn't matter what's going on below. All of those things that get in the way of your dreams - you're above them. Anything is possible.Collection: Dream
I live in the present because the future is always chancy. When it comes to being with you, I'm willing to take the risk.Collection: Risk
The answer is no, I would rather marry the Demon King himself than marry you. I suggest you look elsewhere for a bride. And heaven help the one you choose.Collection: Kings
Just a rat, she repeated to herself. After all, there were rats in the palace. Human and otherwise. Could be worse.Collection: Rats
He expects nothing, she thought, because he's never had anything. And nothing was expected of him. He was free in a way she never would be.Collection: Would Be
The human mind had a remarkable ability both to discount what it sees and make reality conform to expectation.Collection: Reality
Plus he was naturally lucky at cards. As Mam had always said, lucky at cards, or lucky at life. One or the other. Not both.Collection: Lucky
The next chamber is full of songbirds, if I remember right. Their music is like turtleweed. It will put you to sleep if you listen to it. They sleep most of the time, so the best thing is to pass through without waking them up. If they do awaken, then you must sing loud enough to drown out their music." "Great," Han said. "Whose idea was that?" "It seemed like a good idea at the time," Crow said. "I was an excellent singer.Collection: Sleep
You didn't have to go to the fireworks with him. Or - or let him fondle you." "Fondle?" Raisa raised her eyebrows, "When did I mention fondling?Collection: Eyebrows
Whoa, Rebecca," Talia said smiling even wider, "Walking on the wild side, are we?" Raisa seemed to think the situation needed more explaining. "He - uh - I'm tutoring him." "She is," Han said solemnly. "She's very good. I'm learning a lot." Pearlie snickered. "What's she teaching you?" "Well," Han said, "we're jumping around a lot.Collection: Teaching
Her clothes still smoked from the wizard’s assault. But to him, she always smelled of flowers.Collection: Flower
So you questioned him?" Raisa prompted. "What did he say for himself?" "Well, the first thing Gillen does is steal his purse and beat him with a club." Amon said.Collection: Doe
Just tell me you don't love me, and I'll let the matter drop." "What?" "What I said. Just say, 'Rai, I don't love you and I never will'. It's that simple." "Raisa, this is getting us nowhere." "Say it!Collection: Love You
Like a stand of lodgepole pines in a gale Raisa's followers all went down leaving her standing alone....There's no shelter for me not from any of this. I'll stand alone the rest of my life. THE GRAY WOLF THRONE p. 163Collection: Leaving
But I don't want your throne." "Then what do you want?" "You.Collection: Thrones
You do not respond to an attempt on your life with a slap on the hand. Or a joke.Collection: Hands
She padded toward Han, barefoot, like a faerie startled out of a forest bower, bewitching mix of clan and flatland beauty.Collection: Forests
Oh, I am getting married," Raisa said sleepily. "You promised me that if I agreed to marry you, that you would make it happen." She extended her hand, the one with the ring Han had given her, and waved it under his nose. "So. It's time to pay up.Collection: Hands
I continue to believe in miracles. But i know that miracles come to those who work very hardCollection: Believe
History,' Mari muttered, as if she'd overheard his thoughts. 'Why do we need to know what happened before we were born?' 'So hopefully we get smarter and don't make the same mistakes again.Collection: Mistake
Crow paced back and forth, his form flickering like flame. "It's been a thousand years, Alister. I never intended for anyone to find it, so it's very well protected. One little misstep, and you and my line will be history." "Since when are you so concerned about your line?" Han said. Crow stared at him for a long moment. "Since I found out I had one.Collection: Flames
I've found it wise to enjoy any time of truce, while recognizing it for what it is. A truce.Collection: Wise