“He's not lazy. He's just highly inefficient.”
― Cinda Williams Chima, quote from The Warrior Heir
“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.”
― Cinda Williams Chima, quote from The Warrior Heir
“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.”
― Cinda Williams Chima, quote from The Warrior Heir
“Well now, Jack," Hastings said from the sidelines. "I'm afraid you've been beheaded. Not a good start." He sounded amused.”
― Cinda Williams Chima, quote from The Warrior Heir
“And they always slept better with blades beneath their beds.”
― Cinda Williams Chima, quote from The Warrior Heir
“D'Orsay's voice was cold. "Sponsors, control your warriors."
Hastings gave an almost imperceptable shrug. His warrior was upright only through the grace of his opponent. Wylie, on the other hand, was in Ellen's face immediately.
"What's the matter with you?" he hissed. "Finish him off, and let's be done with this." He made as if to grab her sword arm, as if he intended to settle the matter himself, but she threw him off hard. He landed in the grass. "You're a killer, Ellen!" he shouted. You've trained for this for a lifetime. Now do what comes naturally!"
Ellen pointed her sword at Wylie and flame ran along the blade.
"Be careful what you wish for," she said coldly.”
― Cinda Williams Chima, quote from The Warrior Heir
“Why aren't you dead?" Will demanded.”
― Cinda Williams Chima, quote from The Warrior Heir
“Ellen rose to her feet. Jack thought for a moment she was going to storm out. Instead, she picked up the pitcher of hot fudge and poured the contents onto Leesha Middleton's pink jeans and fuzzy white sweater.
"Oops." Ellen sat down again and went back to eating her ice cream.
Leesha screamed, a sound that could be heard in Canada. Every eye in Corcoran's was on her. She slid out of the booth and swiped ineffectually at her jeans with a napkin.Then she plucked at her ruined sweater with her thumb and forefinger. "You...you...I can't believe you did that!"
Ellen licked whipped cream from the back of her spoon and looked at Leesha calmly.
Leesha was tiny, but she seemed to expand, like an amphibian taking on air, then she drew herself up and retrieved her pink leather purse from the bench next to Jack. It was smeared with fudge too. "You'll pay for that, I promise you," she said to Ellen in a voice that raised the gooseflesh on Jack's neck. Then she turned and left.
For a moment, Corcoran's was totally silent.
Ellen looked across the table at Jack's sundae. "Are you going to finish that?”
― Cinda Williams Chima, quote from The Warrior Heir
“The world will try to change you into someone else. Don't let them. That's the best advice anyone can give you.”
― Cinda Williams Chima, quote from The Warrior Heir
“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, quote from The Warrior Heir
“You can't always pick where you fight, or who you fight...or even...how you fight. But do the picking...whenever you can.”
― Cinda Williams Chima, quote from The Warrior Heir
“The human mind had a remarkable ability both to discount what it sees and make reality conform to expectation.”
― Cinda Williams Chima, quote from The Warrior Heir
“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, quote from The Warrior Heir
“You look like a boy who has eaten the fruit of the tree of knowledge and doesn't like the taste.”
― Cinda Williams Chima, quote from The Warrior Heir
“I've found it wise to enjoy any time of truce, while recognizing it for what it is. A truce.”
― Cinda Williams Chima, quote from The Warrior Heir
“(A)ny time you buy weapons, or build an army, you begin to look for an excuse to use them. Plus, you pose more of a threat to others.”
― Cinda Williams Chima, quote from The Warrior Heir
“I guess you never think your enemy is as clever as you are.”
― Cinda Williams Chima, quote from The Warrior Heir
“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.”
― Cinda Williams Chima, quote from The Warrior Heir
“Stupid. He was stupid. He was tired of being stupid.”
― Cinda Williams Chima, quote from The Warrior Heir
“They fought for glory, but not for blood.”
― Cinda Williams Chima, quote from The Warrior Heir
“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.”
― Cinda Williams Chima, quote from The Warrior Heir
“Maybe none of my opponents ever gave me flowers before,” she mumbled.”
― Cinda Williams Chima, quote from The Warrior Heir
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“Have you heard of the illness hysteria siberiana? Try to imagine this: You're a farmer, living all alone on the Siberian tundra. Day after day you plow your fields. As far as the eye can see, nothing. To the north, the horizon, to the east, the horizon, to the south, to the west, more of the same. Every morning, when the sun rises in the east, you go out to work in your fields. When it's directly overhead, you take a break for lunch. When it sinks in the west, you go home to sleep. And then one day, something inside you dies. Day after day you watch the sun rise in the east, pass across the sky, then sink in the west, and something breaks inside you and dies. You toss your plow aside and, your head completely empty of thought, begin walking toward the west. Heading toward a land that lies west of the sun. Like someone, possessed, you walk on, day after day, not eating or drinking, until you collapse on the ground and die. That's hysteria siberiana.”
― Haruki Murakami, quote from South of the Border, West of the Sun
“All of the heartache, the anger, the fear that this was as good as it was ever going to get, was worth it. Here, he could see her eyes and bask in her smiles-even when she wasn't smiling for him. Every day was worth the pain.”
― Aprilynne Pike, quote from Illusions
“Instead, I ask you with all my heart, come back to Matt's fort with us now! It's not because I like you - don't think that, whatever you do! But, my daughter does - I know that now - and perhaps I can learn too.”
― Astrid Lindgren, quote from Ronia, the Robber's Daughter
“But I really would love to give her a very special gift. I was hoping if I did, she might give me a kiss in return, instead of the brotherly hugs I always get instead.”
― Jessica Day George, quote from Dragon Slippers
“I am increasingly afflicted by vertigo where words mean nothing”
― Doris Lessing, quote from The Golden Notebook
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