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“From day to day he slid out of one skin and pulled on another. No wonder it was hard to sort out who he was.”
― Cinda Williams Chima, The Demon King

“What could she tell him? I notice everything about him, from his flawed nose to his battle scars to his eyes as blue as an upland lake at midsummer. Sometimes I see the boy he would have been had it not been for his life at Ragmarket. He wears his pain on his face in unguarded moments; at other times, I can see just how dangerous he is. No, she couldn't say any of that.”
― 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

“Nobody's going to hand you anything. You don't get what you don't go after.”
― Cinda Williams Chima, The Exiled Queen