Top 160 Cinda Williams Chima Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “Whoever put steak and kidneys together in a pie made a serious error in judgment. – Nick Snowbeard.”

— Cinda Williams Chima

102. “I always say yes to the man with the sword.”

— Cinda Williams Chima

103. “She might be building a house around a single brick, but this brick was all she had.”

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104. “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.”

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105. “Believe me, there is no one more dangerous than one whose hopes have turned to despair.”

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106. “Cat scowled at him. “Why would I say anything about you? You think the whole world’s sniffing your butt?”

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107. “He shook his head, ripping his hands free. “I just went to pick it up.” He felt humiliated and frustrated. Rejected by a ROCK.”

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108. “She padded toward Han, barefoot, like a faerie startled out of a forest bower, bewitching mix of clan and flatland beauty.”

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109. “Love makes you vulnerable, Raisa thought. And yet she’d always hoped for it.”

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110. “I learned a long time ago that it’s not our fault if our parents are monsters. We can’t take responsibility for that, or we’re twice damaged. All we can do is try to go forward in a different way.”

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111. “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.”

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112. “You touch me again, you arrogant Ardenine swine, and I swear on the blood of Hanalea the warrior, I will geld you. Do you understand?”

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113. “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.”

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114. “Welcome to life in a small town,′ Jack said dryly. ‘Where everybody makes it their business to put their noses in yours.”

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115. “Scummer,” Mick muttered. Mick never said much, and when he did it was usually “scummer.”

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116. “There were two more cars parked in the lot than when Seph and Madison had arrived. One was the old Jeep that Will and Ellen shared. The other one was unfamiliar, a black minivan with a rent-a-car sticker. It must belong to the alumni, Seph thought. At least he hoped so, because he melted all four tires.”

— Cinda Williams Chima

117. “Even if the job you’re assigned is not to your liking, a Matelon will see it done.”

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118. “Both Averill and Bayar were like actors speaking lines for their audience and not to each other.”

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119. “The only way to get what you want is to make them more afraid of you than they are of each other.”

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120. “It’s true what they say, then-history is written by the victors.”

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

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122. “The girl must be looking for another hot-fudge shower,” Ellen said. Then she, too, advanced on Leesha.”

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123. “I can’t make you, Rebecca, but you’ll probably feel better if you eat.”

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124. “But music-good music-was by nature an intimate act.”

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125. “Her clothes still smoked from the wizard’s assault. But to him, she always smelled of flowers.”

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126. “A battle is like a deadly sort of dance, Lyss thought. We learn the steps by sparring in the practice yards, by marching up and down the field in the hope that we’ll remember the moves when we’re distracted by the smell of blood and the shrieks of the wounded anddeath howling toward us from all sides. We go into battle to the cadence of drums and guns, but our dance cards are blank. We have no idea who we’ll dance with that day, when death might cut in, and who’ll leave the floor alive.”

— Cinda Williams Chima

127. “But adulthood slipped up on you, she thought. It was forced on you whether you liked it or not.”

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128. “Nah,” Han said, falling into his old habit of making a bad situation worse.”

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129. “How loud did the music have to be to drown out her thoughts?”

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130. “Jason felt humiliated and frustrated. Rejected by a rock.”

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131. “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.”

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132. “They fought for glory, but not for blood. They were Weirlind, heirs of the warrior’s stone. And they always slept better with blades beneath their beds.”

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133. “Think of what we could accomplish if we were not focused on murdering each other.”

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134. “Well, all right, Ash thought. Maybe freeing the dragon wasn’t such a good idea.”

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135. “Friendship didn’t mean much if it was inflicted.”

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136. “If he weren’t so thoroughly wrung out, he could kill the bastard on the spot. In his present condition, he’d be lucky to strangle a gnat.”

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137. “He keeps this up, he’s bound to be caught, she thought. And this time they’ll dangle him for certain.”

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

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139. “We spend so much of our lives waiting to be ambushed by heartbreak. Why couldn’t we be ambushed by joy?”

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140. “Fitch danced on rooftops like some kind of manic digital maestro in a Wi-Fi headset, waving his arms and crying, ‘More power! Need more power!”

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141. “You don’t get what you don’t go after.”

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142. “She was supposed to be writing an essay on how geography had shaped the great battles of the past, but she was having trouble concentrating. In fact, all she’d managed so far was a title. “How Geography Has Shaped the Great Battles of the Past.”

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143. “He’d always found that he learned more if he kept quiet.”

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144. “Lucius had told him word was out that he was dead. Han decided that being dead made travel much easier.”

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145. “Nick often frequented the coffee houses and taverns down by the university, spending hours in philosophical dialogues with his friends.”

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146. “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.”

— Cinda Williams Chima

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

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

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149. “That’s the thing about guilt,” his father said. “It always seems like there’s enough to go around. The only ones who don’t take a share are the ones who are actually guilty.”

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150. “We can’t rely on magic to win the day.”

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