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1 " 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. "
― Sherwood Smith , Court Duel (Crown & Court, #2)
2 " Despite how entertaining certain stories were, at the bottom of every item of gossip there was someone getting hurt. "
― Sherwood Smith , Crown Duel (Crown & Court, #1)
3 " 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. "
4 " 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 , King's Shield (Inda, #3)
5 " 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 , Crown Duel (Crown & Court, #1-2)
6 " Finally someone takes me seriously enough to ask for my word of honor, and it’s a villain. "
― Sherwood Smith , Remalna's Children (Crown's Court, #2.5)
7 " When people first discover beauty, they tend to linger. Even if they don’t at first recognize it for what it is. "
― Sherwood Smith
8 " 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?''Life is a play, isn't it? "
9 " What if feeling good only comes after you destroy someone you hate?''That's not good, that's triumph, "
10 " If everywhere you go everyone watches you, and wants you, can you truly be yourself? "
11 " The only noise now was the rain, pattering softly with the magnificent indifference of nature for the tangled passions of humans. "
12 " 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. "
13 " No, my career as a warrior princess, short as it had been, was over, I thought morosely. Violence only works if you're good at it. Otherwise, it hurts too much. "
― Sherwood Smith , The Trouble with Kings
14 " But I will never ask anyone from our village-from any village in Tlanth-to risk his or her life unless I'm willing to myself. "
15 " Who in the universe halts when the enemy tells them to? "
16 " 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. "
17 " 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. "
18 " 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. "
19 " Everyone is an idiot," I stated. "Except me. "
20 " Because you showed one face to all the rest of the world, and another to me. "
