Top 160 Cinda Williams Chima Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “I continue to believe in miracles. But i know that miracles come to those who work very hard.”

— Cinda Williams Chima

52. “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 desire.”

— Cinda Williams Chima

53. “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.”

— Cinda Williams Chima

54. “He swept Raisa up into his arms and kissed her like it was his first, last, and only.”

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

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56. “You do not respond to an attempt on your life with a slap on the hand. Or a joke.”

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57. “Even when we win, we lose, Lyss thought.”

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58. “And they always slept better with blades beneath their beds.”

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59. “I have to think it’s possible to suffer a great wrong and walk away from it. To build a life of small, exquisitely important moments.”

— Cinda Williams Chima

60. “Adrian. Adrian was alive, and he was at Oden’s Ford. And no one had told her these four long years, because they thought she would do something stupid.”

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61. “We may all end up dead, but we’re sticking it to them in the meantime.”

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62. “More and more, there were no revelations, but simply the uncovering of truths long known but dimly remembered. Everything had been written long ago. There was nothing truly new in the world, but only the slow, circular march of time that revealed the old things once again.”

— Cinda Williams Chima

63. “Sometimes you have to get away to remember who you are. Believe in yourself, Lyss. You’re strong and smart enough to do this job. Never let anyone tell you different.”

— Cinda Williams Chima

64. “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.”

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65. “He wasn’t proud or arrogant, but there was a self-confidence about him that said he knew what he wanted and he was going to get it, and you’d better not get in his way.”

— Cinda Williams Chima

66. “We don’t protect them because they’re weak. We protect them because they are strong, and strong people make enemies.”

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

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

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69. “His father always treated him as if he were capable of great things. Which made him want to accomplish great things.”

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70. “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.”

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71. “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.”

— Cinda Williams Chima

72. “Pirates having a tea party? Not possible.”

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73. “Was death the price of freedom?”

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74. “It doesn’t make sense to dwell on things you can’t do anything about.”

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75. “It was a peculiar marriage of interests- Lord Averill and Captain Byrne and Lord Bayar and Han Alister agreeing on anything was as rare as gold in Ragmarket.”

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76. “But sometimes we get the maddest at the people we love the most.”

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77. “One more thing: Linda, can you get to Canterbury and take over my Chaucerian Society? They’re at Dovecote Hostelry in the old city. We’re visiting all the scenes of the great murders. Tomorrow they want to see where Becket was killed. They’re a bloodthirsty lot, it seems.”

— Cinda Williams Chima

78. “And yet... somehow she knew that she’d seen him before. It was more the effect he had on her than anything about his appearance. It was like he gave off a scent that made her want to run headlong into trouble.”

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79. “What if it was true – what Elend had told his mother? What if he was cursed because the blood of the Demon King ran in his veins? His family fortunes had certainly fallen over the past thousand years – from King of the Seven Realms to starveling street thief.”

— Cinda Williams Chima

80. “Fitch is on his way. He’s coming after he blows up some wizards.”

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81. “I’m not going to let you hit me anymore,” Han said quietly. “I’ve already had one beating today. That’s enough.”

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82. “A fiction writer is never entirely alone. Her characters are constantly whispering in her ear.”

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83. “Mellon is thirteen,” Raisa said. “I hope you have experience babysitting, Micah, because you’re going to need it. Assuming the Demonai don’t assassinate you first. Married at thirteen, widowed at fourteen. Poor Mellony.”

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84. “Han was thinking he was just as likely to shoot flames from his rear end.”

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85. “Which is a sad thing when you’re only seventeen.”

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86. “Maybe the hardest lesson Han had learned was that nobody is purely bad or good. Everybody seemed to be a mixture of both.”

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

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88. “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.”

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89. “Why is it always easier to be optimistic about somebody else’s worries?” Adrian said with a bitter laugh.”

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90. “There was no fair way to compare what had been with what might have been. He just had to find a way forward.”

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91. “Truth be told, Raisa had no intention of marrying anyone any time soon. Her mother was young – she would rule for many years yet, so there was no need to rush into the confinement of marriage.”

— Cinda Williams Chima

92. “You can’t give evil free reign because you’re afraid to confront it.”

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93. “The winner of the tournaments takes control of the Wizard Council, which governs the guilds. Those who have come to power through the system are unlikely to change it. Our family is an aristocracy: privileged and idle, with little to do but spin intrigue.”

— Cinda Williams Chima

94. “Love everywhere, and none for me.”

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95. “You can’t assume that because you have plenty to eat that everyone does.”

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96. “A sensible girl would not have been crying, grieving for the boy with the magic in his voice and the blues in his eyes, mourning the loss of something that was a lie-a lie-from beginning to end.”

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

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98. “I thought I could play at love... But I’ve found out I’m not made that way... I can’t play this game if my heart’s not in it.”

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99. “From day to day he slid out of one skin and pulled on another. No wonder it was hard to sort out who he was.”

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100. “If you want to be a writer, you must be in love with the process of writing, whether you achieve financial success or not.”

— Cinda Williams Chima