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

—Cinda Williams Chima in The Sorcerer Heir

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.

More quotations from Cinda Williams Chima

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

—Cinda Williams Chima in The Dragon Heir

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

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

—Cinda Williams Chima in The Dragon 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

More quotations tagged with “memory”

Holding onto something that is good for you now, may be the very reason why you don't have something better.

—C. JoyBell C.

memory clinging

You can't remember sex. You can remember the fact of it, and recall the setting, and even the details, but the sex of the sex cannot be remembered, the substantive truth of it; it is by nature self-erasing; you can remember its anatomy and be left with a judgment as to the degree of your liking of it, but whatever it is as a splurge of being, as a loss, as a charge of the conviction of love stopping your heart like your execution, there is no memory of it in the brain, only the deduction that it happened and that time passed, leaving you with a silhouette that you want to fill in again.

—E. L. Doctorow

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A piece of me is gone. I think we're made up of all these different pieces and every time someone goes, you're left with less of yourself.

—Melina Marchetta in Saving Francesca

memory loss

Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet.

—Kin Hubbard

memory forgetting past wrongs

Just because you keep something a secret doesn't mean it never happened, no matter how much you want that to be true.

—Jodi Picoult in Vanishing Acts

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