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Cinda Williams Chima
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: January 1
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A fiction writer is never entirely alone. Her characters are constantly whispering in her ear.
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And they always slept better with blades beneath their beds.
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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.
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She had never felt more alive than when she lay dying in Han Alister's arms.
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As for my family, my father was Danel he died as a mercenary in the southern wars, Han went on. My mother's name was Sarah, called Sali, and my sister was Mari. They died last summer. But then, you already knew that. Every time you forget, I'll remind you. That's the blood sacrifice I made to be here, and that's enough.
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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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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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There's something about a roof isn't there? It makes you feel like it doesn't matter what's going on below. All of those things that get in the way of your dreams - you're above them. Anything is possible.
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But I don't want your throne. Then what do you want? You.
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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.
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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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History,' Mari muttered, as if she'd overheard his thoughts. 'Why do we need to know what happened before we were born?' 'So hopefully we get smarter and don't make the same mistakes again.
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I need to go to parties, Raisa mused, so I don't think so much.
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You do not respond to an attempt on your life with a slap on the hand. Or a joke.
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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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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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I have lost everything, Han thought. Then he corrected himself. Every time I think I’ve lost everything, I find there’s still something else to lose.
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Jason settled back on the bench. 'I hate to break this to you, but as a rule, wizards are nasty people. They're powerful, capricious, ruthless, egotistical, used to getting their own way. That's being kind.
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You couldn’t keep your mouth shut? I’m calling you Glitterhair from now on. Or Talksalot.
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The time will come when you will be forced to make a choice,” Hanalea said. “When that time comes, choose love.
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