Cinda Williams Chima

About

Cinda Williams Chima (born 1952) is a New York Times bestselling author of young adult fantasy, best known for The Heir Chronicles, The Seven Realms and The Shattered Realm series.

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Quotes from Cinda Williams Chima

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 in The Warrior Heir

That's what makes us human. Feeling things—even pain. That's what music does, if it's any good: it makes you feel things. You listen to a song, and somehow you know what that person was going through when he wrote it. Or maybe it puts a name to what you're feeling. And because you can share that, you don't feel so alone.

—Cinda Williams Chima in The Sorcerer Heir

Sometimes you have to go somewhere else to appreciate what we have here.

—Cinda Williams Chima in The Dragon Heir

Adulthood slipped up on you. It was forced on you whether you liked it or not.

—Cinda Williams Chima in The Exiled Queen

choice adulthood

Grief was like that. It gradually faded into a dull ache, until some simple sight or sound or scent hit him like a hammer blow.

—Cinda Williams Chima in The Exiled Queen

I have to believe that people can change. That people deserve a second chance.

—Cinda Williams Chima in The Dragon Heir

It doesn't make sense to dwell on things you can't do anything about.

—Cinda Williams Chima in The Sorcerer Heir

memory dwelling

It's not enough to know right from wrong. You need the strength to do what's right, even when what you want most in the world is the wrong thing.

—Cinda Williams Chima in The Exiled Queen

Words can hurt, but sometimes it's the words you never got to say that hurt the most.

—Cinda Williams Chima in The Sorcerer Heir

Sometimes she wondered if she was doomed to repeat the mistakes of the past, since she'd trained herself not to look back at it.

—Cinda Williams Chima in The Dragon Heir

That's what happens when you love someone… you notice and notice and notice.

—Cinda Williams Chima in The Crimson Crown

It was one of the warm nights at the end of summer that makes promises that won't be kept.

—Cinda Williams Chima in The Wizard Heir

Falling in love was like falling off a cliff. It felt pretty much like flying until you hit the ground.

—Cinda Williams Chima in The Dragon Heir

And, like a fool, she kissed him back. Kissed him in a way that would leave no doubt about the way she felt about him. Kissed him because she knew the chances were slim she'd have very many kisses like that in her lifetime.

—Cinda Williams Chima in The Exiled Queen

Books

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