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.

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

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

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

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

—Cinda Williams Chima in The Crimson Crown

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

Somewhere inside of me I am crying, too, because I'm feeling things at last. I'm feeling not just the physical pain, but all that I have lost, and it is profound and catastrophic and will leave a crater in me that nothing will ever fill.

—Gayle Forman in If I Stay

A will finds a way.

—Orison Swett Marden

Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.

—Thomas Henry Huxley

A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

—Ernest Hemingway