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Don't expect much and you won't be disappointed.

Cinda Williams Chima

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Cinda Williams Chima
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: January 1
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Springfield
Ohio
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Much
Disappointed

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You look like a boy who has eaten the fruit of the tree of knowledge and doesn't like the taste.
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A fiction writer is never entirely alone. Her characters are constantly whispering in her ear.
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He keeps this up, he's bound to be caught, she thought. And this time they'll dangle him for certain.
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He swept Raisa up into his arms and kissed her like it was his first, last, and only
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She padded toward Han, barefoot, like a faerie startled out of a forest bower, bewitching mix of clan and flatland beauty.
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Just because you're the enemy of my enemy don't mean you're my friend, Han thought.
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Her clothes still smoked from the wizard’s assault. But to him, she always smelled of flowers.
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But maybe it's better to go after something, and not get it, than to not even try.
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I continue to believe in miracles. But i know that miracles come to those who work very hard
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That's what happens when you love someone... you notice and notice and notice.
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The only way to get what you want is to make them more afraid of you than they are of each other.
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He expects nothing, she thought, because he's never had anything. And nothing was expected of him. He was free in a way she never would be.
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He would find a way to make it work, because he finally understood that sometimes you have to raise your expectations. And sometimes you need to make a claim on the world and the people you love to get what you most desire
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One more thing: Linda, can you get to Canterbury and take over my Chaucerian Society? They're at Dovecote Hostelry in the old city. We're visiting all the scenes of the great murders. Tomorrow they want to see where Becket was killed. They're a bloodthirsty lot, it seems.
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If you want to be a writer, you must be in love with the process of writing, whether you achieve financial success or not.
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Ellen could have killed me, Jack said quietly, but she didn't. She saved my life. How come? Fitch demanded. After all this? Ellen turned scarlet and stared at the ground. Maybe none of my opponents ever gave me flowers before, she mumbled.
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Han made no effort to put up a brave front. Most of the time he just screamed himself hoarse, though a couple of times he amused himself by screaming Fionas's name as if he were in the throes of passion. FEEE-OHHH-NAAA! Lord Bayar made him pay for that, but afterward, Fiona didn't come down anymore, which Han appreciated.
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Plus he was naturally lucky at cards. As Mam had always said, lucky at cards, or lucky at life. One or the other. Not both.
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A vocation is not something you slap on, like a coat of paint, and change whenever you want. A vocation is built into you. You have no choice. If you try to do something else, you fail.
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Both Averill and Bayar were like actors speaking lines for their audience and not to each other.
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