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Treason's Shore (Inda, #4) QUOTES

Treason's Shore (Inda, #4) QUOTES

1 " War is a convenient fix for government problems if it happens somewhere else. To other people. "

― Sherwood Smith , Treason's Shore (Inda, #4)

2 " I am old, but the word to me means familiar, comfortable. Accustomed after long and venerable use. Not dilapidated and useless. "

― Sherwood Smith , Treason's Shore (Inda, #4)

3 " 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. "

― Sherwood Smith , Treason's Shore (Inda, #4)

4 " 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)

5 " Ah, beloved,” he murmured, his fingers caressing the faint lines in her brow, tracing the shadows at the sides of her lips. “How beautiful you are.”

She couldn’t help a chortle.

Inda heard the unsteadiness in her attempt at laughter, the disbelief, and beneath it, question.

“Joret was never beautiful to me,” he said. “Not ugly, either. She was just Joret. Pleased the eye, but beauty, it strikes you right here.” He closed a fist lightly and thumped it against his breast bone. “Joret was art. Tau was art. But to me, you were always beautiful. Before I really knew what beauty was. It was your face I saw when I was away. Awake and in dreams.”

She laughed again, even more unsteadily, but he heard the genuine humor there, then she wound her fingers in his wet hair, bumped up against him, and said, “Prove it. "

― Sherwood Smith , Treason's Shore (Inda, #4)