Top 58 Sherwood Smith Quotes
#1. What's it really like to always be the prettiest person in a room? Dos it mean you're always acting as if in a play, because no one stops looking at you?'
'Life is a play, isn't it?
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#2. Are they trained to treat everyone as a servant?'
'Probably. That doesn't make you into one,
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#3. No, my career as a warrior princess, short as it had been, was over, I thought morosely. Violence only works if you're good at it. Otherwise, it hurts too much.
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#4. Who in the universe halts when the enemy tells them to?
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#5. If everywhere you go everyone watches you, and wants you, can you truly be yourself?
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#6. If more people recognized the difference between friendship and mere attraction, or how love must partake of both to prosper, I expect there'd be more happy people."
"And a lot fewer poems and plays," I said, laughing as I splashed about in the scented water.
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#7. I am old, but the word to me means familiar, comfortable. Accustomed after long and venerable use. Not dilapidated and useless.
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#8. They're safe,' he said. "And you're not made of glass". He swept me up in his arms.
I laughed. "And I'm not made of glass."
He carried me into our room and kicked the door shut behind us.
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#9. But I will never ask anyone from our village-from any village in Tlanth-to risk his or her life unless I'm willing to myself.
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#10. The less said about that morning's ride, the better. I would have been uncomfortable even if I'd been riding with Branaric, for my leg ached steadily from the jarring of the horse's pace. To be riding along in the clasp of an enemy just made my spirits feel the worse.
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#11. One doesn't lose a self, like a pair of gloves or a pine. We learn and change, or we harden into stone.
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#12. Judging the actions of the many by those of the one is both human and dangerous.
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#13. I feel stupid when people say 'You? You are so brave,' because I don't feel brave, I don't even know what brave is.
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#14. But I'd also learned that the self might want one thing, but that didn't mean it was right.
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#16. Shevraeth himself was there to bid us farewell
a courtesy I could have done without.
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#17. War is a convenient fix for government problems if it happens somewhere else. To other people.
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#18. Choose the duty that you can most effectively execute: that is, finally, all we can do in life.
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#19. Why did I laugh at his sorry, bedraggled appearance? Because ridiculousness made a repellant situation more bearable.
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#20. We'll abduct Garian. Or Jason."
"And - ?"
"And dump them into the ocean. Nobody would ever pay a ransom for them.
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#21. No, I don't think I could fall in love with him, handsome though he is, because I don't accept any of that huff he gives me about my great beauty and all that. I'd have to trust a man's words before I could love him. I think.
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#22. So let me end with the wish that you find the same kind of happyiness, and laughter, and love, that I have found, and that you have the wisdon to make them last.
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#23. You, there, girl! Halt!
Who in the universe ever halts when the enemy tells them to?
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#24. In my generation, if a man washes the dishes, the older women still tend to cluster around and coo and thank him and praise him. But if a woman washes the dishes, it's business as usual, even if both man and woman have tough office jobs.
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#25. Except. What is normal at any given time? We change just as the seasons change, and each spring brings new growth. So nothing is ever quite the same.
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#26. Why is it the songs all end with the good people winning, but in life they don't?"
They don't make songs when the good lose," I muttered. "They make war chants against the bad. So there won't be any songs for us.
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#27. Memory warps time, as it does the sights and sounds and smells of reality; for what shapes it is emotion, which can twist what seems clear, just as the surface of a pond seems to bend the stick thrust into the water.
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#29. He'd spent his entire exile schooling himself to face that he would never get what he wanted. People didn't, sometimes. So you made a life as best you could.
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#30. Serenades," he said, "are customarily performed under moonslight, or have fashions here changed?"
"I don't know," I said. "No one's serenaded me, and as for my serenading anyone else, even if I wanted to, which I don't, my singing voice sounds like a sick crow.
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#31. Angry men with pointy things sent to secure a foreign city are pretty much alike anywhere. That's what I've heard. So far nothing's convinced me different.
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#33. It is a shame when we must regard a people as an enemy. It is a shame and a regret when the two peoples share so much. And it is a shame, a regret, and a tragedy when those peoples meet as individuals and find much to admire.
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#34. If your opponent is better armed and has longer reach, then surprise is your only ally. And then you'd better hope he's half asleep.
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#35. Because you showed one face to all the rest of the world, and another to me.
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#36. Like many science fiction lovers of my generation, I discovered Andre Norton on the shelves at the junior high's library.
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#37. Jaim says that the essence of command is to turn surprises to your favor. You get your perimeter outside the enemy's perimeter, and attack."
"What does that mean, exactly?"
"Oh, I don't know, some kind of military jabber. I was hoping you knew.
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#39. It desolates me to disappoint you, but your brother is not here. Despite two really praiseworthy attempts at rescue."
... The hint of amusement irritated me, and sick and hurt as I was, I simply had to retort something. "Glad ... at least ... you're desolated.
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#40. What if feeling good only comes after you destroy someone you hate?'
'That's not good, that's triumph,
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#41. I endeavor to be serious and you will not take me seriously
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#42. You don't look at the problem all at once, or it's like being caught in a spring flood under a downpour. You tackle the problem in pieces ...
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#44. When I turned thirteen and took a typing class, with typical early teen enthusiasm and total lack of critical ability, I started sending my stuff to publishers once I'd babysat long enough to earn the postage.
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#45. I have made number mistakes - I have such bad number dyslexia that I can look at a number and see the wrong one. I can't remember them worth beans.
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#46. Finally someone takes me seriously enough to ask for my word of honor, and it's a villain.
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#47. At the best of times I don't have the kind of voice anyone would want to hear mangling their favorite songs.
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#48. What might have happened to them to make them the way they were? It did not change what they now did, but it changed, profoundly, how he perceived their motivations, their place in the world.
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#49. As a kid, I pretty much got nothing but scorn, and occasionally active animus, for writing fantasy and squirreling it away in my closet and, later, under the mattress supports in my bed.
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#50. Female authors were still using male names when I was young, or they were neatly shoehorned into 'women's books' except for those few that men could always point at when the disparity was pointed out.
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#51. A horse blanket, Mel?
I remembered what I was wearing. 'It tore in half when Hrani tried washing it. She was going to mend it. This piece was too small for a horse, but it was just right for me.'
Bran laughed a little unsteadly. 'Mel. A horse blanket.
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#52. though we can educate the younger generation, we can even command them, we cannot control their lives, much as we think we'd do a better job of it.
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#53. Some of it was wrong decisions made for the right reasons, and a little of it was right decisions made for the wrong reasons; but most of what I did was wrong decisions for the wrong reasons.
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#55. When people first discover beauty, they tend to linger. Even if they don't at first recognize it for what it is.
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#56. The only noise now was the rain, pattering softly with the magnificent indifference of nature for the tangled passions of humans.
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#57. What is interesting to me is looking at how male and female writers depict men who, come in behind to fill those domestic duties, deal with personal and cultural lack of respect for doing what is lingeringly perceived as 'women's work.'
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#58. The history of fan fiction demonstrates how efficient, and effective, women have been at pooling together to get what they want out of their stories. It's been a largely female-driven world.
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