“Don't expect much and you won't be disappointed.”
― Cinda Williams Chima, quote from The Wizard Heir
“Ellen drank long and deep from her water bottle and wiped her mouth with her gauntleted arm. "Are you feeling all right, Jack? Your play's flat, all in all. I was hoping to give Seph more of a show."
Jack tested the edge of his blade with his thumb. "Actually, Ellen, I wondered if you were coming down with something. You were downright lethargic. I nearly dozed off once or twice."
"Well, that explains it. You looked like you were asleep."
With that, they threw down their weapons and it dissolved into a wrestling match. In the end they were kissing each other.
It was certainly a different kind of courtship, but there was a chemistry, an understanding, a kinship between Jack and Ellen that Seph envied.”
― Cinda Williams Chima, quote from The Wizard Heir
“Admit nothing - that was his first rule. Appeal to logic - second rule. Delay the inevitable - third rule.”
― Cinda Williams Chima, quote from The Wizard Heir
“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, quote from The Wizard Heir
“It was one of the warm nights at the end of summer that makes promises that won't be kept.”
― Cinda Williams Chima, quote from The Wizard Heir
“Leicester stared fixedly at the image before him, the color bleached from his face by its brilliance. Seph sensed the headmaster's mind questing out, trying to discover and destroy the wizard behind the image, but finding nothing, no trail of magic, no stone, no flesh and blood to focus on.
Jason Haley, the puppeteer, was safely ensconced in the gallery above.”
― Cinda Williams Chima, quote from The Wizard Heir
“N'exigez pas beaucoup et vous ne serez pas decu. Don't expect much, and you won't be disappointed.”
― Cinda Williams Chima, quote from The Wizard Heir
“I don't believe in trading in your future for a little extra power in the present.”
― Cinda Williams Chima, quote from The Wizard Heir
“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, quote from The Wizard Heir
“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!”
― Cinda Williams Chima, quote from The Wizard Heir
“Think of what we could accomplish if we were not focused on murdering each other.”
― Cinda Williams Chima, quote from The Wizard Heir
“Welcome to life in a small town,' Jack said dryly. 'Where everybody makes it their business to put their noses in yours.”
― Cinda Williams Chima, quote from The Wizard Heir
“We may all end up dead, but we're sticking it to them in the meantime.”
― Cinda Williams Chima, quote from The Wizard Heir
“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, quote from The Wizard Heir
“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, quote from The Wizard Heir
“- Qual é, Jack, é mais do que isso - disse Ellen. Ela passou para um falsete agudo abobado - Ele é muito gato... É praticamente europeu. Quer dizer, ele viveu no mundo todo. E ele fala francês. - Ela cutucou Seph com o ombro. - E você viu os olhos dele? Eles mudam de cor, e ele tem aqueles cílios longos e escuros. E o jeito que ele beija. - Ela revirou os olhos.
(...)
- E então? Qual é o segredo de um grande beijo, Seph? - perguntou Jack - É a técnica, a duração, a intensidade ou o poder?
Seph soltou um suspiro dramático.
- Oh, está certo, Jack. Eu beijo você. Mas só desta vez.”
― Cinda Williams Chima, quote from The Wizard Heir
“He'd always found that he learned more if he kept quiet.”
― Cinda Williams Chima, quote from The Wizard Heir
“Friendship didn't mean much if it was inflicted.”
― Cinda Williams Chima, quote from The Wizard Heir
“You don't have to understand, you just have to survive.”
― Cinda Williams Chima, quote from The Wizard Heir
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“Doll always said, Just be quiet. Whatever it is, just wait for it to be over. Everything ends sometime.”
― Marilynne Robinson, quote from Lila
“You can’t understand most of the important things from a distance, Bryan. You have to get close,”
― Bryan Stevenson, quote from Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
“One last thing. End of Watch is fiction, but the high rate of suicides—both in the United States and in many other countries where my books are read—is all too real. The National Suicide Prevention Hotline number given in this book is also real. It’s 1-800-273-TALK. If you are feeling poopy (as Holly Gibney would say), give them a call. Because things can get better, and if you give them a chance, they usually do. Stephen”
― Stephen King, quote from End of Watch
“I learned something important from my short time as a market vendor: once you start trading for yourself, you start thinking for yourself. Before the public distribution system collapsed, the government alone decided who would survive and who would starve. The markets took away the government’s control.”
― Yeonmi Park, quote from In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom
“It's hard to believe that this is how it's done. That this is how we get here into the world, by accident or design, the microscopic pieces of ourselves borne by fluids and blood and growing into a tiny kingdom of cells inside someone else's body. It seems so difficult to become alive. So improbable. . .
How can it be possible? she wonders. How can you come to understand your life when even the beginning is so complicated: a single cell imprinted with the color of your eyes and the shape of your face, the pattern on your palm and the moods that will shadow you through your life. How can you be alive when every choice you make breaks the world into a thousand filaments, each careless step branching into long tributaries of alternate lives, shuddering outward and outward like sheet lightning.”
― Dan Chaon, quote from You Remind Me of Me
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