Sherwood Smith Quotes
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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,"…
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A wager?" I repeated. "Yes," he said, and gave me a slow smile, bright with challenge. ... "Stake?" I asked cautiously. He was still smiling,…
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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…
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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."…
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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…
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Finally someone takes me seriously enough to ask for my word of honor, and it’s a villain.
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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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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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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…
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Because you showed one face to all the rest of the world, and another to me.
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When in doubt, be ridiculous.
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Everyone is an idiot," I stated. "Except me.
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Why did I laugh at his sorry, bedraggled appearance? Because ridiculousness made a repellant situation more bearable.
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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It would have been funny if I had been an observer and not a participant, an idea that gave me a disconcerting insight into gossip.…
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Despite how entertaining certain stories were, at the bottom of every item of gossip there was someone getting hurt.
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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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