"As a kid, I pretty much got nothing……" — 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 and, later, under the mattress supports in my bed."
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23 Quotes by Sherwood Smith
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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…
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A wager?" I repeated. "Yes," he said, and gave me a slow smile, bright with challenge. ... "Stake?" I asked…
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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.…
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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…
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So let me end with the wish that you find the same kind of happyiness, and laughter, and love, 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…
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The only noise now was the rain, pattering softly with the magnificent indifference of nature for the tangled passions of…
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Memory warps time, as it does the sights and sounds and smells of reality; for what shapes it is emotion,…
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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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