All Sherwood Smith Quotes
- 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,"… All
- A wager?" I repeated. "Yes," he said, and gave me a slow smile, bright with challenge. ... "Stake?" I asked cautiously. He was still smiling,… Asked
- 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… Alike
- 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."… Arms
- 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… End
- Finally someone takes me seriously enough to ask for my word of honor, and it’s a villain. Ask
- When people first discover beauty, they tend to linger. Even if they don’t at first recognize it for what it is. Beauty
- The only noise now was the rain, pattering softly with the magnificent indifference of nature for the tangled passions of humans. Humans
- 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… Bend
- Because you showed one face to all the rest of the world, and another to me. All
- When in doubt, be ridiculous. Doubt
- Everyone is an idiot," I stated. "Except me. Everyone
- Why did I laugh at his sorry, bedraggled appearance? Because ridiculousness made a repellant situation more bearable. Appearance
- 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… Any
- 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… Action
- 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… Attraction
- 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… Accept
- 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.… Been
- Despite how entertaining certain stories were, at the bottom of every item of gossip there was someone getting hurt. Bottom
- One doesn't lose a self, like a pair of gloves or a pine. We learn and change, or we harden into stone. Change
- We'll abduct Garian. Or Jason." "And—?" "And dump them into the ocean. Nobody would ever pay a ransom for them. Abduct
- I was as eager a writer as I was a reader. Eager
- 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,… Active