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

—Cinda Williams Chima in The Exiled Queen

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About Cinda Williams Chima

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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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

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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

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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

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

—Cinda Williams Chima in The Crimson Crown

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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

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We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we move from the passive voice to the active voice — that is, until we have stopped saying "It got lost," and say, "I lost it."

—Sydney J. Harris

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Fettucini alfredo is macaroni and cheese for adults.

—Mitch Hedberg

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Boyhood, like measles, is one of those complaints which a man should catch young and have done with, for when it comes in middle life it is apt to be serious.