Cinder Quotes

“I am most displeased to hear that.” She sounded about as displeased as a cat who'd just cornered a mouse.”
― Marissa Meyer, Cinder

“I think you should go to the ball with me.” She clutched her fingers. His expression was too genuine, too sure. Her nerves tingled. “Stars,” she muttered. “Didn’t you already ask me that?” “I’m hoping for a more favorable answer this time. And”
― Marissa Meyer, Cinder

“Tilting forward, Iko pressed her flat, cool face to Cinder’s brow, no doubt leaving a smudge of lipstick. Cinder laughed.”
― Marissa Meyer, Cinder

“My sincerest condolences, Your Highness. In more ways than one, it seems.”
― Marissa Meyer, Cinder

“I found your pretty new mechanic down in the lobby, and she tells me she’s here to check on the med-droids again. You know I could get you funding for some upgraded models if you require it.” Cinder started at that simple word—pretty—but neither Kai nor Dr. Erland looked at her. Teetering”
― Marissa Meyer, Cinder

“THE LOOK ON ADRI’S FACE WHEN CINDER ENTERED THE apartment almost made the whole ghastly ordeal worthwhile.”
― Marissa Meyer, Cinder

“The doctor’s face brightened, eyes shining like lanterns between the wrinkles.”
― Marissa Meyer, Cinder

“Cinder tapped her fingers against her hip. Repairs—what a very cyborg term.”
― Marissa Meyer, Cinder

“I don’t know. I don’t actually remember anything from before the surgery.” His eyebrows rose, his blue eyes sucking in all the light of the room. “The cybernetic operation?” “No, the sex change.” The doctor’s smile faltered. “I’m joking.”
― Marissa Meyer, Cinder

“An impish grin spread across the doctor’s weathered face.”
― Marissa Meyer, Cinder

“Lines drawn into his face suggested he had spent many years thinking very hard over very difficult problems. But his eyes were bluer than the sky and, at that moment, they were smiling. He reminded her of a child salivating over a sticky bun.”
― Marissa Meyer, Cinder

“I’m not sure I would label it a ‘survivor,’” said Iko, her sensor darkening with disgust. “It looks more like a rotting pumpkin.”
― Marissa Meyer, Cinder

“And then he’ll recognize me at the ball, and I’ll dance with him and—Pearl will be livid!” She laughed, as if angering her older sister were life’s greatest accomplishment.”
― Marissa Meyer, Cinder

“She made room for the discarded foot on the table, setting it up like a shrine amid the wrenches and lug nuts, before”
― Marissa Meyer, Cinder

“Were there many sick people in Europe that you recall? Any notable outbreaks in your province?"
"I don't know. I don't actually remember anything before the surgery."
His eyebrows rose, his blue eyes sucking in all the light of the room. "The cybernetic operation?"
"No, the sex change."
The doctor's smile faltered.
"I'm joking.”
― Marissa Meyer, Cinder

“Miss”
― Marissa Meyer, Cinder

“only gobbledygook filled the screen.”
― Marissa Meyer, Cinder

“Kai didn't know.

And yet to have felt the comforting presence of acceptance, only to be confined by secrecy again, was even more unbearable than lying to him to begin with.”
― Marissa Meyer, Cinder

“Cinder locked her shoulders. “It doesn’t matter. Because I can’t.” “But I need you.” “Need me?” “Yes. Don’t you see? If I’m spending all my time with you, then Queen Levana can’t rope me in to any conversations or …” He shuddered. “Dancing.”
― Marissa Meyer, Cinder