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61 " Elisandra read while I tried my hand at embroidering a pillowcase that she lent me. The results were execrable. I had no skill with a needle, and no desire to learn, either."I wouldn't shame a dog by laying this upon his bed," I remarked, showing Elisandra my efforts. She actually smiled."I like it," she said. "I'll put it on one of my pillows.""Bryan won't let you sleep in the same bed with him if you bring this as your dowry," I said with an attempt at humor.She bent her head back over her book. "Then stitch me another. "
― Sharon Shinn , Summers at Castle Auburn
62 " You’re wasting your time, she wanted to tell them. I don’t care about your cars or your properties or your bags of gold. What have you done with your life? What are you going to do with it? That’s all that matters. "
― Sharon Shinn , Royal Airs (Elemental Blessings, #2)
63 " To some extent, it doesn't matter who we are or where we came from—what kind of family brought us into this world," Josie said softly. "We become who we were meant to be, and all those other influences fall away. "
64 " His brown eyes were set back in deep hollows, as though he looked out from a place of shadow on all the verities of the world. "
― Sharon Shinn , The Safe-Keeper's Secret (Safe-Keepers, #1)
65 " She was not who she wanted to be. And not only did she not know how to make herself over into someone else, she wasn’t even sure who she wanted to become. "
― Sharon Shinn , Jeweled Fire (Elemental Blessings, #3)
66 " Now his grin lit his face with a sunny halo. "
67 " It is better to bow to the dictates of the wind than to try to chase or chain it. "
― Sharon Shinn , Archangel (Samaria, #1)
68 " it was as if that long-healed wound was raw again; all the complex memories crowded once more to the forefront of her mind. An old despair should not feel so new, but a new despair could haul an old one out of hiding. "
― Sharon Shinn , Troubled Waters (Elemental Blessings, #1)
69 " The debt of friendship is never collected,” he interrupted. “And nothing is ever owed. "
― Sharon Shinn , Jovah's Angel (Samaria, #2)
70 " Last time I was watching her, I left her in her crib and when I came back, she was a puppy. Just for a couple of hours, then she was herself again.’ I mean, I almost couldn’t speak. I said, ‘Did it occur to you to tell me this?’ And she said, ‘Well, I thought it might be a one-time thing. I didn’t want to worry you. "
― Sharon Shinn , Still Life with Shape-Shifter (Shifting Circle, #2)
71 " I was silent a moment. He still had not dropped my hands, and it amazed me how desperately I did not want him to let me go even now. “I cannot be cheered tonight,” I said finally. “I can only be distracted.”“Comforted?” he suggested and slowly, as if waiting for a protest that did not come, he drew me into his arms. I leaned against his chest and his arms wrapped around me. I felt safe and warm and hopeful as I had not felt in weeks. I turned my face into the cloth of his shirt and felt the tears rise. I knew that I would not be able to stop them, and knew that he would feel their wetness through the cotton to his skin, and knew he would know why I was crying and that he would not care. We stood embraced that way for minutes, hours, I could not guess how long. I cried and he held me and neither of us spoke a word. "
72 " I am your friend. I will not fail you at your darkest hour. For this, more than the prestige, he had always wanted to be a Rider—for this utter, bone-deep sense of commitment to a unit and an ideal. "
― Sharon Shinn , Mystic and Rider (Twelve Houses, #1)
73 " I was irritable, Kent was taciturn, Damien was withdrawn, and Bryan was downright sullen. It was hard to tell if Roderick had any sort of mood upon him; he did not seem like the type to inflict his humors on his companions. "
74 " Why had the counterfeit timbre of his voice rung true to me? What had prompted me to believe a man who spent most of his life dissembling? Why had I, usually so suspicious, become so credulous and simpleminded in his presence? Was it just that I had wanted to hear someone tell me he loved me? Was it just that the words he spoke, the vows he swore, were so freighted with sweetness that they would have seemed true no matter who spoke them? "
― Sharon Shinn , The Dream-Maker's Magic (Safe-Keepers, #3)
75 " I could come up with no answer. He had kissed my hand. The forces of gravity came unraveled; there was no cohesion at the core of the world, no order in the universe. Clouds and trees and birds and suns spun around of their own volition, freed from their laws and routines. Bryan had kissed my hand. I could not be rational; and so nothing in the world would make sense again. "
76 " I did no such thing as sit there with my mouth open, though I may as well have, since I felt as if my mind was gaping. It had simply never occurred to me to wonder what kind of person I was, what kind of person I wanted to be. I had not envisioned this as something I had any control over, just as I could not alter the round shape of my face or the dense black curl of my hair. "
77 " I think we broaden our minds and our experiences if we can learn to embrace things that at one point filled us with revulsion. "
― Sharon Shinn , Unquiet Land (Elemental Blessings, #4)
78 " If you did leave,' he said. 'If you did simply walk out the doors and stroll down the mountain, leaving behind no word of where you were going or why, I would come looking for you. I would never stop looking for you. I would find you, too. "
― Sharon Shinn
79 " But what if I say something and you don't like it?''Well, that happens between people all the time. And sometimes it turns them awkward with each other, and sometimes it makes them angry, but unless they tell the truth it's all just guessing and mistakes anyway. "
― Sharon Shinn , Reader and Raelynx (Twelve Houses, #4)
80 " I am not like other women. I do not like the things they like or feel the things they feel. And it is better so. I do not want to be like them. I do not want to turn into one of them. "
― Sharon Shinn , The Shape-Changer's Wife