Frases de Cinda Williams Chima

“No hay nadie más peligroso que aquel a quien las esperanzas se le han convertido en desesperación.”

“Tal vez la lección más dura que Han había aprendido era que nadie es totalmente bueno o malo. Todo el mundo es una mezcla de ambas cosas.”

“Lo besaba porque sabía que las oportunidades eran escasas para que tuviera muchos besos como este en su vida.”

“El nuevo amanecer encontró a la princesa heredera; al despertar, estaba agotada, y completamente vacía de sueños.”

“Esas botas están hechas por artesanos del clan- diría su madre-. ¿Sabes lo que cuestan?¿Piensas que me sobra el dinero?
El que no hubiera tenido que pagarlas carecía de importancia.”

“La esperanza es una cosa peligrosa, pensó Raisa. Una vez encendida es difícil de apagar. Vuelve a las personas sabias en necios.”

“Weird is good, strange is bad.”

“He's not lazy. He's just highly inefficient.”

“But it's not enough to know right from wrong. You need the strength to do what's right, even when what you want most in the world is the wrong thing.”

“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.”

“Just remember who you are… The world will try to change you into someone else. Don't let them. That's the best advice anyone can give you.”

“Don't expect much and you won't be disappointed.”

“She had never felt more alive than when she lay dying in Han Alister's arms.”

“Well now, Jack," Hastings said from the sidelines. "I'm afraid you've been beheaded. Not a good start." He sounded amused.”

“Nobody's going to hand you anything. You don't get what you don't go after.”

“The time will come when you will be forced to make a choice,” Hanalea said. “When that time comes, choose love.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Crow walked toward her, arms outstretched like a man in a dream, which he was, in a way. Sometimes a dream is enough.”

“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.”

“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!”

“But maybe it's better to go after something, and not get it, than to not even try.”

“That's what happens when you love someone… you notice and notice and notice.”

“But I don't want your throne."
"Then what do you want?"
"You.”

“And they always slept better with blades beneath their beds.”

“You couldn’t keep your mouth shut? I’m calling you Glitterhair from now on. Or Talksalot.”

“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?”

“He swept Raisa up into his arms and kissed her like it was his first, last, and only”

“Hope is a dangerous thing, Raisa thought. Once kindled, it's hard to put out. It makes wise people into fools.”

“What kind of love would drive a man for miles through solid rock?”

“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.”

“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.”

“Fitch is on his way. He's coming after he blows up some wizards.”

“Did the destruction of one dream leave a vacuum that required filling with another? Is a broken heart more vulnerable?”