Quote

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

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Cinda Williams Chima
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: January 1
Author
Novelist
Writer
Springfield
Ohio
Thought
Anything
Nothing
Way
Never
Would
Expects
Expected
Free

More quotes by Cinda Williams Chima

Image
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
Image
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
Image
That's what happens when you love someone... you notice and notice and notice.
Cinda Williams Chima
Image
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
Image
Both Averill and Bayar were like actors speaking lines for their audience and not to each other.
Cinda Williams Chima
Image
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?
Cinda Williams Chima
Image
He keeps this up, he's bound to be caught, she thought. And this time they'll dangle him for certain.
Cinda Williams Chima
Image
Don't expect much and you won't be disappointed.
Cinda Williams Chima
Image
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.
Cinda Williams Chima
Image
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.
Cinda Williams Chima
Image
And they always slept better with blades beneath their beds.
Cinda Williams Chima
Image
Her clothes still smoked from the wizard’s assault. But to him, she always smelled of flowers.
Cinda Williams Chima
Image
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.
Cinda Williams Chima
Image
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
Image
My tagline is ‘Less sex, more romance, lower body count.’
Cinda Williams Chima
Image
He swept Raisa up into his arms and kissed her like it was his first, last, and only
Cinda Williams Chima
Image
You couldn’t keep your mouth shut? I’m calling you Glitterhair from now on. Or Talksalot.
Cinda Williams Chima
Image
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
Cinda Williams Chima
Image
Well now, Jack, Hastings said from the sidelines. I'm afraid you've been beheaded. Not a good start. He sounded amused.
Cinda Williams Chima
Image
A fiction writer is never entirely alone. Her characters are constantly whispering in her ear.
Cinda Williams Chima