Quotes from The Gray Wolf Throne

“She had never felt more alive than when she lay dying in Han Alister's arms.”
― Cinda Williams Chima, quote from The Gray Wolf Throne

“The time will come when you will be forced to make a choice,” Hanalea said. “When that time comes, choose love.”
― Cinda Williams Chima, quote from The Gray Wolf Throne

“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.”
― Cinda Williams Chima, quote from The Gray Wolf Throne

“Tears stung her eyes. She sank her knees next to the sleeping bench and gently raked strands of golden hair from him forehead.
"Don't you die. don't you dare. I forbid it." As if Han Alister had ever listened to anything she said.”
― Cinda Williams Chima, quote from The Gray Wolf Throne

“A moment later, Cat hurtled back into the room as if chased by demons. She stationed herself in front of Raisa, a knife in either hand, all of her genteel patina swept away. "Cuffs! Look sharp! It's him, the whey-faced, gutter-swiving, prig-napping bastard! He's here!"
Han looked as mystified as Raisa. "Who's here?”
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“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.”
― Cinda Williams Chima, quote from The Gray Wolf Throne

“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.”
― Cinda Williams Chima, quote from The Gray Wolf Throne

“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.”
― Cinda Williams Chima, quote from The Gray Wolf Throne

“I continue
to believe in miracles. But i know that miracles come to those
who work very hard”
― Cinda Williams Chima, quote from The Gray Wolf Throne

“The bluejacket girlie rode like a clan warrior, but there was no way she'd escape. It was a private life-and-death contest that had nothing to do with him.
He told himself he should ride on, grateful that the chase would keep them occupied while he took a different path.
But what had he told Rebecca when she'd asked what he meant to do when he returned to the Fells?
'I'm tired of people in power picking on the weak. I'm going to help them.”
― Cinda Williams Chima, quote from The Gray Wolf Throne

“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.”
― Cinda Williams Chima, quote from The Gray Wolf Throne

“Both Averill and Bayar were like actors speaking lines for their audience and not to each other.”
― Cinda Williams Chima, quote from The Gray Wolf Throne

“Do not
forget duty. But choose love when you can.”
― Cinda Williams Chima, quote from The Gray Wolf Throne

“Maybe the hardest lesson Han had learned was that nobody is purely bad or good. Everybody seemed to be a mixture of both.”
― Cinda Williams Chima, quote from The Gray Wolf Throne

“As for my family, my father was Danel; he died as a mercenary in the southern wars," Han went on. "My mother's name was Sarah, called Sali, and my sister was Mari. They died last summer. But then, you already knew that. Every time you forget, I'll remind you. That's the blood sacrifice I made to be here, and that's enough.”
― Cinda Williams Chima, quote from The Gray Wolf Throne

“ 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.”
― Cinda Williams Chima, quote from The Gray Wolf Throne

“She's tough for a blueblood, he'd thought, a lifetime ago. Maybe tough enough to be with him. He hadn't considered that he might not be tough enough to be with her.”
― Cinda Williams Chima, quote from The Gray Wolf Throne

“He keeps this up, he's bound to be caught, she thought. And this time they'll dangle him for certain.”
― Cinda Williams Chima, quote from The Gray Wolf Throne

“Either he's lying, which is bad. Or he could be telling the truth, which is worse”
― Cinda Williams Chima, quote from The Gray Wolf Throne

“Crow shrugged. "What is death? The loss of a body? The loss of the animating spark? If that's the case, I am dead.
"Or is life the persistence of memory and emotion, volition and desire?" Crow went on, as if in a debate with himself. "If that's the case, I am very much alive.”
― Cinda Williams Chima, quote from The Gray Wolf Throne

“None of us are free to follow our hearts,"she said. "Not really. Is that what you're saying?"
He shook his head. "No one can stop you from loving someone," he said.”
― Cinda Williams Chima, quote from The Gray Wolf Throne

“Can you imagine it, Alister? Can you imagine what it was like for a shade like me to experience the world again through all of your senses- vision and touch, and smell and taste and hearing?"
"I wouldn't have gone to the library, I'll tell you that," Han said.
Crow laughed. "I like you, Alister. All of this would have been easier if you were unlikable. And stupid. You would have been considerably more tractable.”
― Cinda Williams Chima, quote from The Gray Wolf Throne

“She could hear the rattle of hooves on stone evolve into a thunder of pursuit.”
― Cinda Williams Chima, quote from The Gray Wolf Throne

“Maybe the hardest lesson Han had learned was that nobody is purely bad or good. Everybody seemed to be a mixure of both.”
― Cinda Williams Chima, quote from The Gray Wolf Throne

“And then Micah Bayar swept back his cloak and dropped to his knees, bowing his head, his amulet swinging forward. Fiona glared down at him like she wanted to stomp on him.
Ho, Han thought. Micah breaks with his family? That's interesting.”
― Cinda Williams Chima, quote from The Gray Wolf Throne

“Every time I think I’ve lost everything, I find there’s still something else to lose.”
― Cinda Williams Chima, quote from The Gray Wolf Throne

“Tal vez la lección más dura que Han había aprendido era que nadie es totalmente bueno o malo. Todo el mundo es una mezcla de ambas cosas.”
― Cinda Williams Chima, quote from The Gray Wolf Throne

“Han struggled to remember Master Leontus's lectures on healing, the recitations he'd drowsed through. I'll never have need of that, Han had thought. I'm being trained to kill people, not heal them. He'd thought everyone he'd ever want to heal was already dead.

He'd been wrong.”
― Cinda Williams Chima, quote from The Gray Wolf Throne

“Believe me, there is no one more dangerous than one whose hopes have turned to despair.”
― Cinda Williams Chima, quote from The Gray Wolf Throne

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