Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Don't expect much and you won't be disappointed.
Cinda Williams Chima
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Cinda Williams Chima
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: January 1
Author
Novelist
Writer
Springfield
Ohio
Disappointed
Expect
Much
More quotes by Cinda Williams Chima
It was one of the warm nights at the end of summer that makes promises that won't be kept.
Cinda Williams Chima
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.
Cinda Williams Chima
His aster-blue eyes shown out from a face blackened by bruises and soot, his fair hair glittering in the firelight. Dressed all in black, silhouetted against flame, he looked rather like a demon, raised from the dead, trading for souls on the other side.
Cinda Williams Chima
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.
Cinda Williams Chima
Just tell me you don't love me, and I'll let the matter drop. What? What I said. Just say, 'Rai, I don't love you and I never will'. It's that simple. Raisa, this is getting us nowhere. Say it!
Cinda Williams Chima
You do not respond to an attempt on your life with a slap on the hand. Or a joke.
Cinda Williams Chima
But I don't want your throne. Then what do you want? You.
Cinda Williams Chima
She padded toward Han, barefoot, like a faerie startled out of a forest bower, bewitching mix of clan and flatland beauty.
Cinda Williams Chima
He swept Raisa up into his arms and kissed her like it was his first, last, and only
Cinda Williams Chima
Which is a sad thing when you're only seventeen.
Cinda Williams Chima
I need to go to parties, Raisa mused, so I don't think so much.
Cinda Williams Chima
You couldn’t keep your mouth shut? I’m calling you Glitterhair from now on. Or Talksalot.
Cinda Williams Chima
The time will come when you will be forced to make a choice,” Hanalea said. “When that time comes, choose love.
Cinda Williams Chima
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.
Cinda Williams Chima
She had never felt more alive than when she lay dying in Han Alister's arms.
Cinda Williams Chima
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.
Cinda Williams Chima
Oh, I am getting married, Raisa said sleepily. You promised me that if I agreed to marry you, that you would make it happen. She extended her hand, the one with the ring Han had given her, and waved it under his nose. So. It's time to pay up.
Cinda Williams Chima
It was a peculiar marriage of interests- Lord Averill and Captain Byrne and Lord Bayar and Han Alister agreeing on anything was as rare as gold in Ragmarket.
Cinda Williams Chima
And it's not just a matter of you hurting me. I will hurt you too, even if I don't want to, I'm not the girl you think I am. And you will remember this conversation , and wish that you'd listened to me.
Cinda Williams Chima
The only way to get what you want is to make them more afraid of you than they are of each other.
Cinda Williams Chima