Sharon Shinn QUOTES

1 " A truth that no one knows is still the truth. "

2 " 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. "

― Sharon Shinn , Archangel (Samaria, #1)

3 " But I am king. And the well-being of my kingdom depends on my sound judgment and clear head. And those things depend on my state of happiness. And I have known for a long time that my state of happiness depends on you. "

― Sharon Shinn , Summers at Castle Auburn

4 " 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. "

― Sharon Shinn , Angelica (Samaria, #4)

5 " 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. "

― Sharon Shinn , Jenna Starborn

6 " I've remembered that most of life is about small, essential connections, so unobtrusive, so elastic, that you scarcely realize they're actually holding you together. The big ones-the great, grand emotional bonds-those are the ones that break, the ones that fail you, the ones that give way and send you careening toward the foot of the bleak and jagged canyon. It's the tough, gnarled, unadorned ties that really do bind, that never let you fall all the way down into darkness. "

― Sharon Shinn , The Shape of Desire (Shifting Circle, #1)

7 " 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. "

― Sharon Shinn , Summers at Castle Auburn

8 " You almost threw it back!' she repeated, and her voice filled with mock horror.

'You foolish boy! Are you always so careless with items of value?'

'No,' he said, abruptly sober. 'I know what matters. And I never throw those things away. I hold on to them as long as I can. "

― Sharon Shinn , Gateway

9 " You must welcome bounty whenever it comes, hunti man. It is often inconvenient. But if you insist on accepting it only when it suits your schedule, you will find yourself very poor. "

― Sharon Shinn

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

― Sharon Shinn , Jenna Starborn

11 " Amalie took his hand and spread it against her heart. Her smile was utterly tranquil. 'The world changes and the world stays the same', she told him, ... 'The old moon sets. New moon rises. "

― Sharon Shinn , Reader and Raelynx (Twelve Houses, #4)

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

― Sharon Shinn , Summers at Castle Auburn

13 " I was Amazement--I was Desire--I was Ecstasy and Rapture and the slightest bit of Greed. "

― Sharon Shinn , Jenna Starborn

14 " How did they find out?" Donnal inquired. "Did you set them on fire?"

"You know, it's so rare that I actually do that, and yet that's always the first question anyone asks me." -Senneth "

― Sharon Shinn , Quatrain

15 " And if I should leave you, for any reason," he added, tightening his grip as she struggled to free her hand, "I will return to you. That is as certain as the sun rising tomorrow morning and the thunderbolt falling tomorrow night. That is as sure as the god's existence. I will come back to you, or I will find you - over and over again, as often as we are parted, until the end of the world itself. "

― Sharon Shinn , Archangel (Samaria, #1)

16 " She was smiling as she leaned toward Reed, who stooped down to put his lips against her ear. He would tell her that he wanted to travel to Merendon, or Marring Cross or Cranfield, someplace far away and exotic. He was the sort of man whose wish altered every year.

He said in a voice that only she could hear: "I wish you were not my sister."

She pulled back and stared up at him. He smiled, his face just faintly touched with sadness, and tossed his true-love into the fire. "

― Sharon Shinn , The Safe-Keeper's Secret (Safe-Keepers, #1)

17 " And how is your head? Better?" he asked.
"Very much. Sometimes it hurts." Right now it was throbbing. "But every day I am much improved."
"Where did you hit it? Are you bruised?"
I put a hand to the back of my head, a little to the left, where I had landed with such jarring force. "Here," I said. "It's still a little tender."
And leaning forward, he touched my hair right where I had just laid my hand. Such was he glamour that attended him that I expected the ache to instantly melt away, healed by his royal caress. But in fact, I felt a sudden leap in my heart that made the pain briefly more intense. "

― Sharon Shinn , Summers at Castle Auburn

18 " 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. "

― Sharon Shinn , Summers at Castle Auburn

19 " Sometimes we become what we see. Sometimes we take what we see and make it the model for what we refuse to become. "

― Sharon Shinn , Summers at Castle Auburn

20 " 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. "

― Sharon Shinn , Jenna Starborn

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