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Cinda Williams Chima
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: January 1
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Springfield
Ohio
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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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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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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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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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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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You couldn’t keep your mouth shut? I’m calling you Glitterhair from now on. Or Talksalot.
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My tagline is ‘Less sex, more romance, lower body count.’
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A fiction writer is never entirely alone. Her characters are constantly whispering in her ear.
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That's what happens when you love someone... you notice and notice and notice.
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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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You do not respond to an attempt on your life with a slap on the hand. Or a joke.
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You didn't have to go to the fireworks with him. Or - or let him fondle you. Fondle? Raisa raised her eyebrows, When did I mention fondling?
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Tears stung her eyes. She sank her knees next to the sleeping bench and gently raked strands of golden hair from him forehead. Don't you die. don't you dare. I forbid it. As if Han Alister had ever listened to anything she said.
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(A)ny time you buy weapons, or build an army, you begin to look for an excuse to use them. Plus, you pose more of a threat to others.
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Commander! Sir! Wake up! Jack surfaced from sleep, wondering who the commander was and wishing he'd respond so he could go back to sleep - until he remembered that he was the commander.
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Don't expect much and you won't be disappointed.
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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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Which is a sad thing when you're only seventeen.
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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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