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41 " One thing I still remembered from my war days was how to move in shrubbery. "
― Sherwood Smith , Court Duel (Crown & Court, #2)
42 " At the best of times I don’t have the kind of voice anyone would want to hear mangling their favorite songs. "
43 " When you love something enough time races ahead like the wind chasing autumn leaves, sending them skipping and dancing out of reach, no matter how fast you run. But when you want something and must wait to get it, time stops "
― Sherwood Smith , Inda (Inda, #1)
44 " The less said about that morning’s ride, the better. I would have been uncomfortable even if I’d been riding with Branaric, for my leg ached steadily from the jarring of the horse’s pace. To be riding along in the clasp of an enemy just made my spirits feel the worse. "
― Sherwood Smith , Crown Duel (Crown & Court, #1)
45 " For the first time, I comprehended that love, at least for me, had nothing to do with sex. "
― Sherwood Smith , Banner of the Damned
46 " Montrose tasted the coffee. No bitterness, a blend of several beans--some of which had been grown precisely the same way for over a thousand years--and just the right temperature. If pressed, he could name the chemical makeup of the coffee and the reaction of the human body to the brew. Yet there was still an almost mystical sense of well-being that few things imparted just by smell, taste, and warmth, and coffee was one. "
― Sherwood Smith , The Rifter's Covenant (Exordium, #4)
47 " though we can educate the younger generation, we can even command them, we cannot control their lives, much as we think we’d do a better job of it. "
― Sherwood Smith , Treason's Shore (Inda, #4)
48 " If the Prodigy Mozart had any notion how much torment he might cause people who had done no harm to him, he surely would have confined himself to stickball with his friends.” “I believe that particular piece was "
― Sherwood Smith , Danse de la Folie
49 " Who can ever know what turns the spark into flame? "
50 " the stubborn little countess—so unlike anyone Vidanric had ever met—trampled her determined, well-meaning way not only over his plans, but his thoughts. "
― Sherwood Smith , Crown Duel (Crown & Court, #1-2)
51 " Dun came to realize that a man whose entire purpose for living is to command a war will not want to spend his life waiting for its possibility. He was going to have one, and he was going to see to it—after all, it made military sense—that he would have it on his own terms, the ones with which he expected to win "
52 " Is politics just another word for injustice? "
― Sherwood Smith , King's Shield (Inda, #3)
53 " It is a shame that so few have the time or inclination for scholarship these days. There is much entertainment to be afforded in perusing the mistakes of our forbears. "
54 " By the hundreds, from all directions, the Hill Folk had come to Athanarel. "
55 " Brace up. We’re not about to embark on a duel to the death over the dishes. "
56 " 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. I realize now that what I wanted was comfort, but that, too, does not often come with growth and change. "
57 " I can see her struggling to make what she considers courtly banter, but if she’s ever been kissed before, I’ll eat my hat. I’ll eat your hat, which has more lace on it. "
58 " The effect of knowing one looks one’s best is enormously bracing. "
59 " I’d learned something, all right, about the power of attraction, and Nee was right, it was potent. But I’d also learned that the self might want one thing, but that didn’t mean it was right. Isn’t that why we have minds? "
60 " Somehow it doesn’t seem appropriate to detail for you how to properly go about organizing a revolt--and likewise it seems kind of silly to exhort you to look, if you should suddenly start receiving mysterious letters of courtship, for possible inkstains on the fingers of the fellow you quarrel with the most. "