The Sorcerer Heir Quotes

“Words can hurt, but sometimes it's the words you never got to say that hurt the most.”
― Cinda Williams Chima, The Sorcerer Heir

“You ever notice how sometimes, in the middle of July, right downtown, you'll see a flower poking up through a crack in the asphalt. And you think, What a stupid place to set down roots. It'll get run over, or it'll dry up and blow away. But it hangs on, and it grows, and it blooms. Somehow, against the odds, it finds what it needs and it makes that place better for being there.”
― Cinda Williams Chima, The Sorcerer Heir

“Imagine what it's like to be (untouchable)
Better not take a chance on me (untouchable)
I'm the bad boy your mama told you about
I'm dangerous, without a doubt
Even coming off a ten-year drought
Untouchable

I'm the rose with hidden thorns (untouchable)
Don't tell me that you haven't been warned (untouchable)
I'm pretty poison under the skin,
The bite of the apple that's a mortal sin
In a game of love you'll never win
Untouchable

My reputation's fairly earned (untouchable)
If you play with fire, you will get burned (untouchable)
Stay out of the kitchen if you can't take the heat,
My kisses are deadly as they are sweet,
I'm a runaway bus on a dead-end street
Untouchable

Fools rush in, that's what they say(untouchable)
But angels fall, too, most every day (untouchable)
I'm the snake in the garden, the siren on the reef
I have the face of a saint and the heart of a thief
I'll promise you love! And bring you nothing but grief
Untouchable

Hearing Jonah sing like this was like watching him slice himself open and show off his insides. Why would he do that? Why would be write such a song?
And then Emma answered her own question. Because good music always tells the truth, no matter how much it hurts.
Emma couldn't be the only one who felt the bite of the blade, but everyone else seemed to take it in stride. Did they know? Did they all know about Jonah?
Of course they did. They were there when it happened. They'd allow Jonah to keep the secrets that were most important to him. She knew she shouldn't resent that, but she still did. They must have known she was falling for him. They must have.”
― Cinda Williams Chima, The Sorcerer Heir

“Knowledge is power. In the wrong hands, knowledge is trouble.”
― Cinda Williams Chima, The Sorcerer Heir

“I like rough edges. That's what makes a person real.”
― Cinda Williams Chima, The Sorcerer Heir

“Please, Kenzie, Jonah thought. Please, please, please back off from this. His life wasn't much, but it was all he had, this small safe space, walled in by secrets.”
― Cinda Williams Chima, The Sorcerer Heir

“Aftera brief silence, Kenzie said, "Don't you believe in second chances?"
The room seemed a little colder, a little darker, as if a shadow had passed over the sun.
"Sonny Lee always said, 'Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.”
― Cinda Williams Chima, The Sorcerer Heir

“You're a quiet one. You keep to yourself, but when you speak up, you tell the truth: in your music and every other way.”
― Cinda Williams Chima, The Sorcerer Heir

“But sometimes we get the maddest at the people we love the most.”
― Cinda Williams Chima, The Sorcerer Heir

“Emma was horrified and transfixed at the same time. She was watching Jonah Kinlock doing what he did best. There was a certain macabre beauty in watching form and function wedded together. In Jonah's case, a dance of beauty and death.”
― Cinda Williams Chima, The Sorcerer Heir

“That's what makes us human. Feeling things–even pain. That's what music does, if it's any good: it makes you feel things. You listen to a song, and somehow you know what that person was going through when he wrote it. Or maybe it puts a name to what you're feeling. And because you can share that, you don't feel so alone.”
― Cinda Williams Chima, The Sorcerer Heir

“As with evil, you never know when you'll be blindsided by kindness.”
― Cinda Williams Chima, The Sorcerer Heir

“It doesn't make sense to dwell on things you can't do anything about.”
― Cinda Williams Chima, The Sorcerer Heir

“How loud did the music have to be to drown out her thoughts?”
― Cinda Williams Chima, The Sorcerer Heir

“Like everyone else at the Anchorage, except maybe for Natalie, Jonah had developed the blinders that allowed him to dance on. That prevented him from seeing the gradual decline of everyone around him; that allowed him to pretend that they weren't all heading for the same tragic end. The band played on as the ship sank beneath them. Distracted by the magic of music, they would keep dancing until the waves closed over their heads.”
― Cinda Williams Chima, The Sorcerer Heir

“Leesha knew from experience that when parents don't parent, kids grow up fast.”
― Cinda Williams Chima, The Sorcerer Heir

“A sensible girl would not have been crying, grieving for the boy with the magic in his voice and the blues in his eyes, mourning the loss of something that was a lie-a lie-from beginning to end.”
― Cinda Williams Chima, The Sorcerer Heir

“There was something savage and elemental and feral in him. The fact that he was a savant only added to the intrigue.
I always go for the dangerous boys, Leesha thought.”
― Cinda Williams Chima, The Sorcerer Heir

“Don't pick a fight you can't win.”
― Cinda Williams Chima, The Sorcerer Heir

“You can't give evil free reign because you're afraid to confront it.”
― Cinda Williams Chima, The Sorcerer Heir

“We can't rely on magic to win the day.”
― Cinda Williams Chima, The Sorcerer Heir

“Revenge is a powerful motivation, especially for someone with nothing to lose.”
― Cinda Williams Chima, The Sorcerer Heir

“Maybe I’m old-fashioned, but I don’t approve of all this tampering with Weirstones,” Millie said. “Swapping them from person to person, creating designer Weir, and all that. You never know what you’re going to get. Though I must say, that Jack Swift is a very well-endowed young man. I wonder, though, if he’ll be able to reproduce.”
― Cinda Williams Chima, The Sorcerer Heir

“All at once it seemed like too much of a betrayal to continue to pretend that his brother was delirious, hallucinating, not in his right mind. Lying when he was telling the truth. Maybe Kenzie was right-maybe secrets were more the problem than the solution. Maybe Kenzie was the only clearheaded person in that room.
And yet-he couldn't supress a twinge of fear that if he told the truth, he'd never see Emma again. Never hear her music again. Their musical connection was the closest he'd ever come to slacking his thirst for a human touch.”
― Cinda Williams Chima, The Sorcerer Heir