Sherwood Smith Short Quotes

18 Sourced Quotes

View all Sherwood Smith Quotes
'Are they trained to treat everyone as a servant?'

Sherwood Smith
Who in the universe halts when the enemy tells them to?

Sherwood Smith
'What if feeling good only comes after you destroy someone you hate?'

Sherwood Smith
Judging the actions of the many by those of the one is both human and dangerous.

Sherwood Smith
Finally someone takes me seriously enough to ask for my word of honor, and it's a villain.

Sherwood Smith
War is a convenient fix for government problems if it happens somewhere else. To other people.

Sherwood Smith
Choose the duty that you can most effectively execute: that is, finally, all we can do in life.

Sherwood Smith
We'll abduct Garian. Or Jason." "And—?" "And dump them into the ocean. Nobody would ever pay a ransom for them.

Sherwood Smith
Why did I laugh at his sorry, bedraggled appearance? Because ridiculousness made a repellant situation more bearable.

Sherwood Smith
I am old, but the word to me means familiar, comfortable. Accustomed after long and venerable use. Not dilapidated and useless.

Sherwood Smith
The only noise now was the rain, pattering softly with the magnificent indifference of nature for the tangled passions of humans.

Sherwood Smith
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
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 different.

Sherwood Smith
'What's it really like to always be the prettiest person in a room? Dos it mean you're always acting as if in a play, because no one stops looking at you?'

Sherwood Smith
He'd spent his entire exile schooling himself to face that he would never get what he wanted. People didn't, sometimes. So you made a life as best you could.

Sherwood Smith
If more people recognized the difference between friendship and mere attraction, and how love must partake of both to prosper, I expect there'd be more happy people.

Sherwood Smith
Nothing is "always," my dear. Except the greater truths, one of which is that power begets politics, and politics are more dangerous than war because there are fewer rules.

Sherwood Smith
What might have happened to them to make them the way they were? It did not change what they now did, but it changed, profoundly, how he perceived their motivations, their place in the world.

Sherwood Smith