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“So here's the truth - I love you. I love everything about you â€� the way you stick up for people even when it costs you. The way you keep trying to do the right thing even when you're not exactly sure what the right thing is. I love how you put words together. You're as skilled with words as any knife fighter with a blade. You can put an enemy down on his back, or you can raise people up so they find what's best in themselves. You've changed my life. You've given me the words I need to become whatever I want.
I love how you talk to lytlings. You don't talk down to them. You respect them, and anybody can tell you're actually interested in what they have to say.
I love the way you ride a horse � how you stick there like an upland thistle, whooping like a Demonai. I love the way you throw back your head and stomp your feet when you dance. I love how you go after what you want � whether it's kisses or a queendom.
I love your skin, like copper dusted over with gold. And your eyes � they're the color of a forest lake shaded by evergreens. One of the secret places that only the Demonai know about.
I love the scent of you � when you've been out in the fresh air, and that perfume you put behind your ears sometimes.
Believe it or not, I even love your road smell � of sweat and horses and leather and wool.
I want to breathe you in for the rest of my life.”
― Cinda Williams Chima, The Crimson Crown

“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 Exiled Queen

“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, The Gray Wolf Throne

“And, like a fool, she kissed him back. Kissed him a way that would leave no doubt about the way she felt about him. Kissed him because she knew the chances were slim she'd have very many kisses like that in her lifetime.
Which is a sad thing when you're only seventeen.”
― Cinda Williams Chima, The Exiled Queen

“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, The Exiled Queen

“Whoa, Rebecca," Talia said smiling even wider, "Walking on the wild side, are we?"
Raisa seemed to think the situation needed more explaining. "He - uh - I'm tutoring him."
"She is," Han said solemnly. "She's very good. I'm learning a lot."
Pearlie snickered. "What's she teaching you?"
"Well," Han said, "we're jumping around a lot.”
― Cinda Williams Chima, The Exiled Queen

“I live in the present because the future is always chancy. When it comes to being with you, I'm willing to take the risk.”
― Cinda Williams Chima, The Exiled Queen

“You touch me again, you arrogant Ardenine swine, and I swear on the blood of Hanalea the warrior, I will geld you. Do you understand?”
― Cinda Williams Chima, The Exiled Queen

“Did the destruction of one dream leave a vacuum that required filling with another? Is a broken heart more vulnerable?”
― Cinda Williams Chima, The Exiled Queen

“Will you give the girl to me?" she said. "Will you let me try?"
He nodded, dizzy with relief. "Please, Willo. Please. Save her. It doesn't matter...what happens to me.”
― Cinda Williams Chima, The Gray Wolf Throne

“Han smiled, then, a bright, charming smile that lit up the room, more dangerous than any blade.
All you ever needed was that smile, she thought. I'd have given in immediately.”
― Cinda Williams Chima, The Exiled Queen

“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, The Exiled Queen

“If he even survives." She shivered, and Amon put his arm around her, drawing her into his steady warmth.
"It's that bad?"
Raisa nodded. "He looked...he looked awful, Amon. Willo doesn't know if he'll...She's worried about him. My mother died, and I never got to tell her that I loved her, that I finally understood - just a little anyway. If Han dies too, I don't know what I'll do.”
― Cinda Williams Chima, The Gray Wolf Throne

“Which is a sad thing when you're only seventeen.”
― Cinda Williams Chima, The Exiled Queen

“You are my father,â€� she said to Averill. “And you are my grandmother,â€� she said to Elena. “And you are duty-bound to me,â€� she said to Nightwalker.

“If you take action against Hunts Alone without my permission, we will be at war.”
― Cinda Williams Chima, The Crimson Crown

“If she'd ever hoped to impress Amon Byrne with her newly acquired glamour and beauty, that chance was gone forever. He'd seen her in every kind of ugly.”
― Cinda Williams Chima, The Exiled Queen

“I do try to get my own way, but I think it's because I'll never get my way on anything that matters”
― Cinda Williams Chima, The Demon King

“As was his custom, Han stood propped against the wall, looking as ruthless as possible.”
― Cinda Williams Chima

“...she'd learned not to ask every question that cane to mind, knowing some things would be understood in their own time”
― Cinda Williams Chima, The Demon King

“And then Micah Bayar swept back his cloak and dropped to his knees, bowing his head, his amulet swinging forward. Fiona glared down at him like she wanted to stomp on him.
Ho, Han thought. Micah breaks with his family? That's interesting.”
― Cinda Williams Chima, The Gray Wolf Throne

“I thought I could play at love...But I've found out I'm not made that way...I can't play this game if my heart's not in it.”
― Cinda Williams Chima, The Exiled Queen

“You can't assume that because you have plenty to eat that everyone does.”
― Cinda Williams Chima, The Demon King

“It's not just the real, but the perspective of real that counts. If people perceive you as weak, then you are weak, even if it's a survival strategy.”
― Cinda Williams Chima

“He wasn't proud or arrogant, but there was a self-confidence about him that said he knew what he wanted and he was going to get it, and you'd better not get in his way.”
― Cinda Williams Chima

“Love everywhere, and none for me.”
― Cinda Williams Chima

“Mellon is thirteen," Raisa said. "I hope you have experience babysitting, Micah, because you're going to need it. Assuming the Demonai don't assassinate you first. Married at thirteen, widowed at fourteen. Poor Mellony.”
― Cinda Williams Chima, The Exiled Queen

“How do I know you don’t have another amulet hidden on your person?â€� she said.
Micah smiled faintly. “Have mercy, your highness,â€� he said.“I could strip, but it is a chilly evening. Besides, you seem to have an immunity to any magic I can conjure.”
― Cinda Williams Chima, The Gray Wolf Throne

“Was death the price of freedom?”
― Cinda Williams Chima

“Was he ill? Or was the anger he carried around burning away his flesh?”
― Cinda Williams Chima

“The more important you are, the later you arrive.”
― Cinda Williams Chima