Sharon Shinn Quotes

#1. Now his grin lit his face with a sunny halo.

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#2. Love is like water from the ocean." Damiana said. "You cannot empty it dry. Take bucket after bucket of water out of the Cormeon Sea, and there is still more water left than you could ever use up. That's what love's like.

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#3. My shoes made an odd, clacking sound on the cobblestones of the courtyard, no matter how quietly I placed my feet. It was like being followed by the audible manifestation of my own shadow.

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#4. it was as if that long-healed wound was raw again; all the complex memories crowded once more to the forefront of her mind. An old despair should not feel so new, but a new despair could haul an old one out of hiding.

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#5. Do you love me?" he asked.
I fell silent.
"For the rest of it is glitter and noise," he said. "At the heart of it all is love. You make that choice, and you go forward from there.

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#6. It is better to bow to the dictates of the wind than to try to chase or chain it.

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#7. You almost threw it back!' she repeated, and her voice filled with mock horror.
'You foolish boy! Are you always so careless with items of value?'
'No,' he said, abruptly sober. 'I know what matters. And I never throw those things away. I hold on to them as long as I can.

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#8. Sweet Jovah singing, he had slept beside her all night, and kept her warm with his wings; and perhaps he did not hate her after all.

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#9. Is love the ultimate illusion? Or is it what it seems to be
the greatest transformation of all? (Glyrenden)

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#10. Everybody's afraid of love, because love is what hurts the most.

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#11. I'm fascinated by the idea of disparate, difficult people learning to trust each other when they're thrust into hellish circumstances.

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#12. Yes, Jenna, I love you with all my heart. And with my atoms and molecules and electrons and whatever further breakdown you require.

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#13. For the world slows and the stars falter, and all that remains is you ...

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#14. You're wasting your time, she wanted to tell them. I don't care about your cars or your properties or your bags of gold. What have you done with your life? What are you going to do with it? That's all that matters.

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#15. I hadn't thought specifically about doing graphic novels until a couple of my friends got contracts for them. Then I started picturing how various of my stories or poems would work in an illustrated format and thinking how cool that would be.

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#16. Are you asking me if there is a god?' he said, still in that soft voice. 'All I can say is, I believe there is. I feel him when I sing. He has responded to my prayers countless times. He guides my actions and he dwells in my heart. I know he is there.

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#17. I have never been interested in taking students. They waste one's time and interrupt one's schedule.

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#18. Family tends to be one of the recurring themes in my fiction.

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#19. I am who I am, born that way, and will die that way.

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#20. There is nothing but heartache for a coru woman and a hunti man," she said, deliberately contrary. "He cannot control her and she cannot change him."
"He never fails her and she always moves him," Darien corrected. "She can trust his strength, and he can be lifted by her joy.

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#21. He leaned upon her as if there was no other support anywhere in the world, and she held him as if she would undertake no other task for all eternity.

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#22. No such thing as too tall," she said. She had automatically reached for a brush and now she began uncoiling the tangles of my hair. "It's good for a woman to be able to look into a man's eyes. Then she's not afraid to tell him what she thinks.

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#23. She was not who she wanted to be. And not only did she not know how to make herself over into someone else, she wasn't even sure who she wanted to become.

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#24. You must welcome bounty whenever it comes, hunti man. It is often inconvenient. But if you insist on accepting it only when it suits your schedule, you will find yourself very poor.

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#25. If mankind's greatest achievement is to produce more spaces for mankind to live in, I do not think I am so impressed.

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#26. I realized a long time ago, with a certain amazement, that no mattter how important something is in your life, no matter how huge it is, how much space it takes up in your heart and in your thoughts, unless you mention it to other people, they have no idea it exists.

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#27. As writers, we do our best to conjure a world so vivid that the reader can practically walk through it - but we're still only using words and relying on readers to do a lot of work of imagining. Providing pictures as well as words offers a whole new dimension to the experience of consuming a story.

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#28. I thought it would not hurt to remind you that love is a powerful force in this world, invisible though it seems.

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#29. The debt of friendship is never collected," he interrupted. "And nothing is ever owed.

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#30. A truth that no one knows is still the truth.

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#31. Would you not marry even for love?'
'Love does not seem to bring anyone much happiness as far as I have observed. So I think the lesson learned is never to love.'
'The lesson is to love wisely,' he replied.

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#32. His brown eyes were set back in deep hollows, as though he looked out from a place of shadow on all the verities of the world.

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#33. And might I live long enough to see the world yet again as a place completely different, through eyes that see another truth not yet revealed?

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#34. My love for you is elemental and immutable, and it will sustain me until I die.

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#35. You have not traveled enough," she said. "Or you'd know that every journey
makes its own map across your heart.

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#36. But I am king. And the well-being of my kingdom depends on my sound judgment and clear head. And those things depend on my state of happiness. And I have known for a long time that my state of happiness depends on you.

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#37. She should leave you. Or you shouldn't leave her. I haven't worked it out yet. But you shouldn't be apart.

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#38. He is so kind that he makes me search my soul to find new ways to be compassionate to others.

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#39. Manufactured
synthetic
even virtual, if that is what you turned out to be
I would love you.

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#40. Love is a popular romantic notion that leads to nothing but its own brand of misery.

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#41. To some extent, it doesn't matter who we are or where we came from - what kind of family brought us into this world,' Josie said softly. 'We become who we were meant to be, and all those other influences fall away.

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#42. Yet the world is the same as it always was. It is merely that you see it with new eyes.

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#43. I had been right the first time. His sonorous voice echoed through a hollow place of sorrow, catching its reverberations from those ragged walls. His gaiety masked a deep well of loneliness; he was a bright outward shape wrapped around shadows.

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#44. A truth comes out when it must;
A dream comes true when it will.
Though the world turn to ash and dust
A secret's a secret still.

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#45. Sometimes we become what we see. Sometimes we take what we see and make it the model for what we refuse to become.

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#46. We cannot go backward. We cannot erase time and events. But we can go forward, hand in hand, hope in our hearts and love lighting our way.

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#47. Only the strongest are put through the fire,' Josiah said. 'And the forge creates things of great strength and beauty.'
'Then I shall be truly glorious by the time my tenure ends.

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#48. If you did leave,' he said. 'If you did simply walk out the doors and stroll down the mountain, leaving behind no word of where you were going or why, I would come looking for you. I would never stop looking for you. I would find you, too.

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#49. The townhouses looked bedraggled, unkempt, like an old homeless woman with an interesting history but a perilous future.

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#50. She had something I could not have, and so I resented her - but I realized the fault was mine and not hers.

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#51. How did they find out?" Donnal inquired. "Did you set them on fire?"
"You know, it's so rare that I actually do that, and yet that's always the first question anyone asks me." -Senneth

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#52. You must invest out of passion! You must invest out of desire! The same way you invent. The same way you fall in love! If you are too careful, you end up with something timid and unimportant. Something you don't mind losing. And when was that ever something you wanted to fight for?

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#53. I am not like other women. I do not like the things they like or feel the things they feel. And it is better so. I do not want to be like them. I do not want to turn into one of them.

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#54. I have changed for the last time
this is the man I will be till I die. And that man loves you.

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#55. I was Amazement
I was Desire
I was Ecstasy and Rapture and the slightest bit of Greed.

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#56. The promises of the future cannot undo the harm of the past.

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#57. Without an understanding of what a thing really is, it cannot be either uncovered or changed. (Aubrey)

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