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21 " One doesn't lose a self, like a pair of gloves or a pine. We learn and change, or we harden into stone. "
― Sherwood Smith , Crown Duel (Crown & Court, #1-2)
22 " 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. "
23 " I had seen ardency in men's eyes, but I had only felt it once. With Flauvic, false and therefore easy to dismiss. I suddenly wished that I could feel it now. No, I did feel it. I did have the same feeling, only I had masked it as restlessness, or as the exhortation to action, or as anger. I thought how wonderful it would be to see that spark now, in the right pair of eyes. "
24 " Why did I laugh at his sorry, bedraggled appearance? Because ridiculousness made a repellant situation more bearable. "
― Sherwood Smith , The Trouble with Kings
25 " The more one has, the less one desires. "
26 " Some of it was wrong decisions made for the right reasons, and a little of it was right decisions made for the wrong reasons; but most of what I did was wrong decisions for the wrong reasons. "
27 " Who can ever know what turns the spark into flame? Vidanric's initial interest in me might well have been kindled by the fact that he saw my actions as courageous, but the subsequent discovery of passion, and the companionship of the mind that would sutain it, seemed as full of mystery as it was of felicity. As for me, I really believe that the spark had been there all along, but I had been too ignorant--and too afraid--to recognize it. "
28 " It is a shame when we must regard a people as an enemy. It is a shame and a regret when the two peoples share so much. And it is a shame, a regret, and a tragedy when those peoples meet as individuals and find much to admire. "
― Sherwood Smith , King's Shield (Inda, #3)
29 " I endeavor to be serious and you will not take me seriously "
― Sherwood Smith , A Stranger to Command
30 " But I'd also learned that the self might want one thing, but that didn't mean it was right. "
31 " War is a convenient fix for government problems if it happens somewhere else. To other people. "
― Sherwood Smith , Treason's Shore (Inda, #4)
32 " Maybe I'm no longer a dog, but I can still bite! "
― Sherwood Smith , Wren to the Rescue (Wren, #1)
33 " You don't look at the problem all at once, or it's like being caught in a spring flood under a downpour. You tackle the problem in pieces... "
34 " Judging the actions of the many by those of the one is both human and dangerous. "
― Sherwood Smith , The Fox (Inda, #2)
35 " 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. "
36 " I am old, but the word to me means familiar, comfortable. Accustomed after long and venerable use. Not dilapidated and useless. "
37 " I feel stupid when people say ‘You? You are so brave,’ because I don’t feel brave, I don’t even know what brave is. "
38 " 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. "
39 " Choose the duty that you can most effectively execute: that is, finally, all we can do in life. "
40 " He said the proclivities for indulging in gossip stems from the same impulse as the reading of novels, only gossip touches on real people. Therein lies the harm. "
― Sherwood Smith , Danse de la Folie