Sharon Shinn Quotes
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If mankind's greatest achievement is to produce more spaces for mankind to live in, I do not think I am so impressed.
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Only the strongest are put through the fire,' Josiah said. 'And the forge creates things of great strength and beauty.' 'Then I shall be truly glorious by the time my tenure ends.
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And might I live long enough to see the world yet again as a place completely different, through eyes that see another truth not yet revealed?
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Sometimes we become what we see. Sometimes we take what we see and make it the model for what we refuse to become.
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Yet the world is the same as it always was. It is merely that you see it with new eyes.
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And you're not leaving," she said. "Promise me." It was as if she had asked him to promise to keep breathing, to notice sunshine, to permit the spinning of the earth. What choice did he have? Even if he left her, she would be camped in his heart, an insistent and willful presence. She would match her strides to his on any journey he ever took; she would lie beside him on any bed. Amalie, he said, "that's the easiest promise I've ever had to make.
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He leaned upon her as if there was no other support anywhere in the world, and she held him as if she would undertake no other task for all eternity.
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It is very easy to shun someone who is deliberately cruel, and everyone loathes a man who is brutal and vicious. Such people have a hard time winning followers. But an individual who is gracious, who is attractive, who smiles and flatters and praises - that is a person who can lead whole nations to disaster. Who would not want to follow such a man or woman? Everyone is drawn to beauty and wit.
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For the world slows and the stars falter, and all that remains is you.
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She shouldn't leave you. Or you shouldn't leave her. I haven't worked it out yet. But you shouldn't be apart.
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she had something I could not have, and so I resented her—but I realized the fault was mine and not hers.
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A truth comes out when it must; A dream comes true when it will. Though the world turn to ash and dust A secret’s a secret still.
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Are you asking me if there is a god?' he said, still in that soft voice. 'All I can say is, I believe there is. I feel him when I sing. He has responded to my prayers countless times. He guides my actions and he dwells in my heart. I know he is there.
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A truth that no one knows is still the truth.
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My love for you is elemental and immutable, and it will sustain me until I die.
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Love is a popular romantic notion that leads to nothing but its own brand of misery.
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Everybody's afraid of love, because love is what hurts the most.
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I have changed for the last time--this is the man I will be till I die. And that man loves you.
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We cannot go backward. We cannot erase time and events. But we can go forward, hand in hand, hope in our hearts and love lighting our way.
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So do I wish I was to be king? That is not a question I ask myself. I ask myself, Would I be a good king? Would I be quick witted and generous of spirit and full of that boundless energy? Or would I be clumsy and stupid and dulled by my own prejudices? I try to be a good man, since I am alive at all, and hope that that teaches me what I would need to know if I was ever faced with a higher challenge.
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I was Amazement--I was Desire--I was Ecstasy and Rapture and the slightest bit of Greed.
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I've remembered that most of life is about small, essential connections, so unobtrusive, so elastic, that you scarcely realize they're actually holding you together. The big ones-the great, grand emotional bonds-those are the ones that break, the ones that fail you, the ones that give way and send you careening toward the foot of the bleak and jagged canyon. It's the tough, gnarled, unadorned ties that really do bind, that never let you fall all the way down into darkness.
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And if I should leave you, for any reason," he added, tightening his grip as she struggled to free her hand, "I will return to you. That is as certain as the sun rising tomorrow morning and the thunderbolt falling tomorrow night. That is as sure as the god's existence. I will come back to you, or I will find you - over and over again, as often as we are parted, until the end of the world itself.
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I am who I am, born that way, and will die that way.
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Yes, Jenna, I love you with all my heart. And with my atoms and molecules and electrons and whatever further breakdown you require.
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Love is like water from the ocean." Damiana said. "You cannot empty it dry. Take bucket after bucket of water out of the Cormeon Sea, and there is still more water left than you could ever use up. That's what love's like.
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I realized a long time ago, with a certain amazement, that no mattter how important something is in your life, no matter how huge it is, how much space it takes up in your heart and in your thoughts, unless you mention it to other people, they have no idea it exists.
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You have not traveled enough," she said. "Or you'd know that every journey makes its own map across your heart.
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He looked down at his empty glass. "One of the other ways in which I am different from my father," he said. "I am not interested in marrying where I do not love." I spoke in a jesting voice. "And of all the women in the eight provinces, you have not been able to find one you could love?" Now he looked at me again, and his face was completely serious. "That's the problem," he said. "There is one.
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He is so kind that he makes me search my soul to find new ways to be compassionate to others.
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