“When in doubt, be ridiculous.”
―
Sherwood Smith,
Firebirds: An Anthology of Original Fantasy and Science Fiction
“The only noise now was the rain, pattering softly with the magnificent indifference of nature for the tangled passions of humans.” ― Sherwood Smith
“You, there, girl! Halt!"Who in the universe ever halts when the enemy tells them to?” ― Sherwood Smith, Crown Duel
“A wager?" I repeated."Yes," he said, and gave me a slow smile, bright with challenge. ..."Stake?" I asked cautiously. He was still smiling, an odd sort of smile, hard to define."A kiss." My first reaction was outrage, but then I remembered that I was on my way to Court, and that had to be the kind of thing they did at Court. And if I win I don't have to collect. I hesitated only a moment longer, lured by the thought of open sky, and speed, and winning."Done," I said.” ― Sherwood Smith, , Crown Duel
“Finally someone takes me seriously enough to ask for my word of honor, and it’s a villain.” ― Sherwood Smith, Remalna's Children
“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.” ― Sherwood Smith, Crown Duel
“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
“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.” ― Sherwood Smith, Crown Duel
“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.” ― Sherwood Smith, Court Duel
“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.” ― Sherwood Smith, Court Duel
“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
“If more people recognized the difference between friendship and mere attraction, or how love must partake of both to prosper, I expect there'd be more happy people." "And a lot fewer poems and plays," I said, laughing as I splashed about in the scented water.” ― Sherwood Smith
“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.” ― Sherwood Smith, Court Duel
“Everyone is an idiot," I stated. "Except me.” ― Sherwood Smith, The Trouble with Kings
“Because you showed one face to all the rest of the world, and another to me.” ― Sherwood Smith, Crown Duel
“When people first discover beauty, they tend to linger. Even if they don’t at first recognize it for what it is.” ― Sherwood Smith
“Despite how entertaining certain stories were, at the bottom of every item of gossip there was someone getting hurt.” ― Sherwood Smith, Crown Duel
“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
“It desolates me to disappoint you, but your brother is not here. Despite two really praiseworthy attempts at rescue."... The hint of amusement irritated me, and sick and hurt as I was, I simply had to retort something. "Glad... at least... you're desolated.” ― Sherwood Smith, Crown Duel
“The only noise now was the rain, pattering softly with the magnificent indifference of nature for the tangled passions of humans.” ― Sherwood Smith
“You, there, girl! Halt!"Who in the universe ever halts when the enemy tells them to?” ― Sherwood Smith, Crown Duel
“A wager?" I repeated."Yes," he said, and gave me a slow smile, bright with challenge. ..."Stake?" I asked cautiously. He was still smiling, an odd sort of smile, hard to define."A kiss." My first reaction was outrage, but then I remembered that I was on my way to Court, and that had to be the kind of thing they did at Court. And if I win I don't have to collect. I hesitated only a moment longer, lured by the thought of open sky, and speed, and winning."Done," I said.” ― Sherwood Smith, , Crown Duel
“Finally someone takes me seriously enough to ask for my word of honor, and it’s a villain.” ― Sherwood Smith, Remalna's Children
“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.” ― Sherwood Smith, Crown Duel
“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
“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.” ― Sherwood Smith, Crown Duel
“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.” ― Sherwood Smith, Court Duel
“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.” ― Sherwood Smith, Court Duel
“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
“If more people recognized the difference between friendship and mere attraction, or how love must partake of both to prosper, I expect there'd be more happy people." "And a lot fewer poems and plays," I said, laughing as I splashed about in the scented water.” ― Sherwood Smith
“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.” ― Sherwood Smith, Court Duel
“Everyone is an idiot," I stated. "Except me.” ― Sherwood Smith, The Trouble with Kings
“Because you showed one face to all the rest of the world, and another to me.” ― Sherwood Smith, Crown Duel
“When people first discover beauty, they tend to linger. Even if they don’t at first recognize it for what it is.” ― Sherwood Smith
“Despite how entertaining certain stories were, at the bottom of every item of gossip there was someone getting hurt.” ― Sherwood Smith, Crown Duel
“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
“It desolates me to disappoint you, but your brother is not here. Despite two really praiseworthy attempts at rescue."... The hint of amusement irritated me, and sick and hurt as I was, I simply had to retort something. "Glad... at least... you're desolated.” ― Sherwood Smith, Crown Duel
