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61 " I really needed time to think, and--so I figured--if my life was destined to continue at such a headlong pace, I was going to have to learn to perform my cerebrations while dashing back and forth cross-country at the gallop. "
― Sherwood Smith , Court Duel (Crown & Court, #2)
62 " He knocked me off my horse. But I’d taken an oath, so I had to do my best.” I drew in a shaky breath. “I know I can’t fight forty of you, but I’m going to stand here and block you until you either go away or my arms fall off, because this, too, is an oath I took. "
63 " neuraimai leapt into the air, flinging itself on glutinous wings toward "
― Sherwood Smith , A Prison Unsought (Exordium, #3)
64 " He never pronounced judgment on current events and people, despite some of my hints; and I forbore asking directly, lest I inadvertently say something about someone in his family--or worse, him. "
65 " Suddenly I felt an overwhelming desire to be home. I wanted badly to clean out our castle, and replant Mama’s garden, and walk in the sunny glades, and think, and read, and learn. I no longer wanted to face the world in ignorance, wearing castoff clothing and old horse blankets. "
― Sherwood Smith , Crown Duel (Crown & Court, #1-2)
66 " You're drunk as four skunks, you idiot. "
67 " There’s no use in talking about the plan, because of course nothing went the way it was supposed to. "
― Sherwood Smith , Crown Duel (Crown & Court, #1)
68 " As soon as we’re born, we become a part of patterns, the intimate ones we create with those we live among, and the patterns so large that it takes a lifetime to perceive a fragment of the possibilities. "
― Sherwood Smith , Banner of the Damned
69 " I found the other two in Bran’s room, and one look at their faces made it abundantly clear that they felt no better than I did. Not that the Marquis had a red nose or a thick voice--he even looked aristocratic when sick, I thought with disgust. "
70 " But after a time even my temper tantrums have to give way to rational thought, and I faced at last what ought to have been obvious from the very beginning: We’d lost because we were ignorant. And of the two of us, I was the worse off, because I hadn’t even known I was ignorant. "
71 " You might contemplate the purpose of a court…” You brainless, twaddling idiot, I thought scornfully. I wished he were before me. I wished I could personally flout him and his busy searchers, and make him look like the fool he was. And watch the reaction, and walk away laughing. "
72 " I promised myself that next time Shevraeth tried to talk to me, I’d listen, and even if he insulted me, my family, and my land, I’d keep my tongue between my teeth. "
73 " Love is one of the simplest of what we call the Mysteries, and yet the strongest, like air: the greatest treasure cannot buy it nor the smartest thief steal it nor the most powerful emperor command it. And like air, it freely fills to infinity whatever is open to it. "
― Sherwood Smith , Lhind the Spy (Lhind, #2)
74 " Shevraeth himself was there to bid us farewell--a courtesy I could have done without. "
75 " Gossip, I have discovered, is seldom spread about people who find happiness or contentment. "
― Sherwood Smith , Danse de la Folie
76 " He mounted behind me and we started off, while I indulged myself with the image of grabbing that stick and conking him right across his smiling face. "
77 " The Duke of Grumareth was always a fool and will always be a fool,” Shevraeth said, so lightly it was hard to believe he wasn’t joking. "
78 " But I'll still be betrothed. Some fun if he's a snob, and most of those court boys are snobs. And what if Uncle says I have to live with the boy's family? At least if he joins ours, I can stick him in the farthest room and pretend he isn't here. "
― Sherwood Smith , The Spy Princess
79 " No matter how far diverged by their singular histories, every human culture in the Thousand Suns resonates to its tragic echoes. "
― Sherwood Smith , The Phoenix in Flight (Exordium, #1)
80 " Why is it the songs all end with the good people winning, but in life they don't?"They don't make songs when the good lose," I muttered. "They make war chants against the bad. So there won't be any songs for us. "