Sherwood Smith quotes

When in doubt, be ridiculous. (Sherwood Smith)
Finally someone takes me seriously enough to ask for my word of honor, and it's a villain. View quote
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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 clear, just as the surface of a pond seems to bend the stick thrust into the water. View quote
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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 different. View quote
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Despite how entertaining certain stories were, at the bottom of every item of gossip there was someone getting hurt. View quote
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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. As I walked beside the silent Tamara, I realized that despite how entertaining certain stories were, at the bottom of every item of gossip there was someone getting hurt. View quote
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Are they trained to treat everyone as a servant? View quote
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Choose the duty that you can most effectively execute: that is, finally, all we can do in life. View quote
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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. View quote
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Judging the actions of the many by those of the one is both human and dangerous. View quote
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It desolates me to disappoint you, but your brother is not here. Despite two really praiseworthy attempts at rescue. (Sherwood Smith)
What if feeling good only comes after you destroy someone you hate? View quote
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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. View quote
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I've been working hard at assuming Court polish, but the more I learn about what really goes on behind the pretty voices and waving fans and graceful bows, the more I comprehend that what is really said matters little, so long as the manner in which it is said pleases. I understand it, but I don't like it. Were I truly influential, then I would halt this foolishness that decrees that in Court one cannot be sick; that to admit you are sick is really to admit to political or social or romantic defeat; that to admit to any emotions usually means one really feels the opposite. It is a terrible kind of falsehood that people can only claim feelings as a kind of social weapon. View quote
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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. View quote
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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? View quote
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I am old, but the word to me means familiar, comfortable. Accustomed after long and venerable use. Not dilapidated and useless. View quote
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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. View quote
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Who in the universe halts when the enemy tells them to? View quote
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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," I muttered. "They make war chants against the bad. So there won't be any songs for us. View quote
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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 quite the same. (Sherwood Smith)
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 me about my great beauty and all that. I'd have to trust a man's words before I could love him. I think. View quote
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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 you have the wisdon to make them last. View quote
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Because you showed one face to all the rest of the world, and another to me. View quote
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Everyone is an idiot," I stated. "Except me. View quote
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