A wager?" I repeated. "Yes," he said, and gave me a slow smile, bright with challenge. ... "Stake?" I asked cautiously. He was still smiling, an odd sort of smile, hard to define. "A kiss." My first reaction was outrage,… — Sherwood Smith Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“War is a convenient fix for government problems if it happens somewhere else. To other people.” — Sherwood Smith Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 wished that I could feel it now. No, I did feel it. I did have the same feeling, only I had masked it as restlessness, or as the exhortation to action, or as anger. I thought… — Sherwood Smith Copy Share
Despite how entertaining certain stories were, at the bottom of every item of gossip there was someone getting hurt. — Sherwood Smith Copy Share Image
