You, there, girl! Halt!" Who in the universe ever halts…

“Who in the universe halts when the enemy tells them to?”

— Sherwood Smith

Except. What is normal at any given time? We change just as the seasons change, and each spring brings new growth. So nothing is…

— Sherwood Smith

It would have been funny if I had been an observer and not a participant, an idea that gave me a disconcerting insight into…

— Sherwood Smith

I have made number mistakes - I have such bad number dyslexia that I can look at a number and see the wrong one.…

— Sherwood Smith

“War is a convenient fix for government problems if it happens somewhere else. To other people.”

— Sherwood Smith

“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.”

— Sherwood Smith

As a kid, I pretty much got nothing but scorn, and occasionally active animus, for writing fantasy and squirreling it away in my closet…

— Sherwood Smith

“The more one has, the less one desires.”

— Sherwood Smith

“Fall in love with heart, not head, to trouble you’re led. Fall in love with heart and mind, then true love you’ll find.”

— Sherwood Smith

I had seen ardency in men's eyes, but I had only felt it once. With Flauvic, false and therefore easy to dismiss. I suddenly…

— Sherwood Smith

Everyone is an idiot," I stated. "Except me.

— Sherwood Smith

Despite how entertaining certain stories were, at the bottom of every item of gossip there was someone getting hurt.

— Sherwood Smith

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…

— Sherwood Smith

“Who can ever know what turns the spark into flame? Vidanric's initial interest in me might well have been kindled by the fact that…

— Sherwood Smith

“For the first time, I comprehended that love, at least for me, had nothing to do with sex.”

— Sherwood Smith