Quotes by Cinda Williams Chima

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

Just tell me you dont love me, and Ill let the matter drop.What?What I said. Just say, Rai, I dont love you and I never will. Its that simple.Raisa, this is getting us nowhere.Say it!

How dare you? Bayar began, but his voice had lost some of its force. How dare you come into this sacred hall, flinging accusations?I have not yet made any accusations, Willo said. Perhaps it is our own guilt clamoring in your ears.

How dare you? Bayar began, but his voice had lost some of its force. How dare you come into this sacred hall, flinging accusations?I have not yet made any accusations, Willo said. Perhaps it is your own guilt clamoring in your ears.

Come on! Weve had too many dead heroes. Being a coward increases your odds of survival-thats my motto. Im counting on bieng faster than them.

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

Commander! Sir! Wake up!Jack surfaced from sleep, wondering who the commander was and wishing hed respond so he could go back to sleep - until he remembered that he was the commander.

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

Leesha knew from experience that when parents dont parent, kids grow up fast.

She could hear the rattle of hooves on stone evolve into a thunder of pursuit.

For Hanalea the Warrior!

Imagine what its like to be (untouchable)Better not take a chance on me (untouchable)Im the bad boy your mama told you aboutIm dangerous, without a doubtEven coming off a ten-year droughtUntouchableIm the rose with hidden thorns (untouchable)Dont tell me that you havent been warned (untouchable)Im pretty poison under the skin, The bite of the apple thats a mortal sinIn a game of love youll never winUntouchableMy reputations fairly earned (untouchable)If you play with fire, you will get burned (untouchable)Stay out of the kitchen if you cant take the heat, My kisses are deadly as they are sweet, Im a runaway bus on a dead-end streetUntouchableFools rush in, thats what they say(untouchable)But angels fall, too, most every day (untouchable)Im the snake in the garden, the siren on the reefI have the face of a saint and the heart of a thiefIll promise you love! And bring you nothing but griefUntouchable Hearing Jonah sing like this was like watching him slice himself open and show off his insides. Why would he do that? Why would be write such a song? And then Emma answered her own question. Because good music always tells the truth, no matter how much it hurts. Emma couldnt be the only one who felt the bite of the blade, but everyone else seemed to take it in stride. Did they know? Did they all know about Jonah? Of course they did. They were there when it happened. Theyd allow Jonah to keep the secrets that were most important to him. She knew she shouldnt resent that, but she still did. They must have known she was falling for him. They must have.

Fitch is on his way. Hes coming after he blows up some wizards.

Do you think Im stupid? Only a fool would use a fast-acting poison on a target with a taster. The taster goes down before the king gets it into his system. Lila blinked at him, as if surprised by this display of logic.

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 Jonahs case, a dance of beauty and death.

I continueto believe in miracles. But i know that miracles come to thosewho work very hard

Aftera brief silence, Kenzie said, Dont you believe in second chances?The room seemed a little colder, a little darker, as if a shadow had passed over the sun. Sonny Lee always said, Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.

I need to go to parties, Raisa mused, so I dont think so much.

All at once it seemed like too much of a betrayal to continue to pretend that his brother was delirious, hallucinating, not in his right mind. Lying when he was telling the truth. Maybe Kenzie was right-maybe secrets were more the problem than the solution. Maybe Kenzie was the only clearheaded person in that room.And yet-he couldnt supress a twinge of fear that if he told the truth, hed never see Emma again. Never hear her music again. Their musical connection was the closest hed ever come to slacking his thirst for a human touch.

Can you see why I cant stand a lie? People have been lying to me all my life. Even the person I loved the most in the world.Sometimes people lie for good reasons, Jonah said. To keep you safe, or to avoid breaking your heart, or to make it possible for you to go on living.