Sharon Shinn Quotes

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I was Amazement—I was Desire—I was Ecstasy and Rapture and the slightest bit of Greed.

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She smiled, if he could see that, and waited for him to ask the real question. But he was silent. He wanted her to volunteer the story, she realized, and she could just as easily choose to say nothing. But he deserved to know. They all deserved it, and Kirra already knew it, and Cammon may have guessed it, because Cammon could read souls, but Tayse was the only one she would tell.

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I thought it would not hurt to remind you that love is a powerful force in this world, invisible though it seems.

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If there is no god, what is left but science? What is left to endow us with any grace? You can tell me the chemical makeup of my skin and my brain, but how can you explain away my soul? And if there is no god to watch over me, chastise me, grieve for me, rejoice for me, make me fear, and make me wonder, what am I but a collection of metals and liquids with nothing to celebrate about my daily living?

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Do you love me?" he asked. I fell silent. "For the rest of it is glitter and noise," he said. "At the heart of it all is love. You make that choice, and you go forward from there.

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My love for you is elemental and immutable, and it will sustain me until I die.

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I have changed for the last time—this is the man I will be till I die. And that man loves you.

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It is very easy to shun someone who is deliberately cruel, and everyone loathes a man who is brutal and vicious. Such people have a hard time winning followers. But an individual who is gracious, who is attractive, who smiles and flatters and praises - that is a person who can lead whole nations to disaster. Who would not want to follow such a man or woman? Everyone is drawn to beauty and wit.

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Only the strongest are put through the fire,' Josiah said. 'And the forge creates things of great strength and beauty.' 'Then I shall be truly glorious by the time my tenure ends.

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Your wedding completely changes the direction of your life, you know, no matter how greatly you desire it. I think that moment of doubt and faintness comes from all those imagined and now impossible futures all pressing in on you at once. It is your last chance to experience them, you see, and they all want to be lived at that moment.

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You have not traveled enough," she said. "Or you'd know that every journey makes its own map across your heart.

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He leaned upon her as if there was no other support anywhere in the world, and she held him as if she would undertake no other task for all eternity.

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I realized a long time ago, with a certain amazement, that no mattter how important something is in your life, no matter how huge it is, how much space it takes up in your heart and in your thoughts, unless you mention it to other people, they have no idea it exists.

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She had something I could not have, and so I resented her—but I realized the fault was mine and not hers.

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Are you asking me if there is a god?' he said, still in that soft voice. 'All I can say is, I believe there is. I feel him when I sing. He has responded to my prayers countless times. He guides my actions and he dwells in my heart. I know he is there.

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If mankind's greatest achievement is to produce more spaces for mankind to live in, I do not think I am so impressed.

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Love is a popular romantic notion that leads to nothing but its own brand of misery.

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If love makes you sad, you acquire a little depth, a little compassion. If it makes you happy, you learn how to be joyous. Every relationship should color your soul to a certain degree, don't you think? Every friendship, every love affair - each one should build up the chambers of your heart the way a sea creature builds the chamber of his shell.

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So do I wish I was to be king? That is not a question I ask myself. I ask myself, Would I be a good king? Would I be quick witted and generous of spirit and full of that boundless energy? Or would I be clumsy and stupid and dulled by my own prejudices? I try to be a good man, since I am alive at all, and hope that that teaches me what I would need to know if I was ever faced with a higher challenge.

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Manufactured—synthetic—even virtual, if that is what you turned out to be—I would love you.

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Everybody's afraid of love, because love is what hurts the most.

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A truth comes out when it must; A dream comes true when it will. Though the world turn to ash and dust A secret's a secret still.

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For the world slows and the stars falter, and all that remains is you...

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We cannot go backward. We cannot erase time and events. But we can go forward, hand in hand, hope in our hearts and love lighting our way.

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