Sharon Shinn Quotes

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.

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.

Do you love me?" he asked. I fell silent. "For the rest of it is glitter and noise," he said. "At the heart of it all is love. You make that choice, and you go forward from there.

He is so kind that he makes me search my soul to find new ways to be compassionate to others.

I have changed for the last time--this is the man I will be till I die. And that man loves you.

I am who I am, born that way, and will die that way.

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.

she had something I could not have, and so I resented her—but I realized the fault was mine and not hers.

A truth that no one knows is still the truth.

If mankind's greatest achievement is to produce more spaces for mankind to live in, I do not think I am so impressed.

I was Amazement--I was Desire--I was Ecstasy and Rapture and the slightest bit of Greed.

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.

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?

Yes, Jenna, I love you with all my heart. And with my atoms and molecules and electrons and whatever further breakdown you require.

I thought it would not hurt to remind you that love is a powerful force in this world, invisible though it seems.

My love for you is elemental and immutable, and it will sustain me until I die.

Yet the world is the same as it always was. It is merely that you see it with new eyes.

She shouldn't leave you. Or you shouldn't leave her. I haven't worked it out yet. But you shouldn't be apart.

You have not traveled enough," she said. "Or you'd know that every journey makes its own map across your heart.

Love is a popular romantic notion that leads to nothing but its own brand of misery.

Manufactured--synthetic--even virtual, if that is what you turned out to be--I would love you.

For the world slows and the stars falter, and all that remains is you.

Everybody's afraid of love, because love is what hurts the most.

Sometimes we become what we see. Sometimes we take what we see and make it the model for what we refuse to become.

You have not traveled enough, " she said. "Or you'd know that every journeymakes its own map across your heart.

You must welcome bounty whenever it comes, hunti man. It is often inconvenient. But if you insist on accepting it only when it suits your schedule, you will find yourself very poor.

Amalie took his hand and spread it against her heart. Her smile was utterly tranquil. 'The world changes and the world stays the same', she told him, ... 'The old moon sets. New moon rises.

I'm fascinated by the idea of disparate, difficult people learning to trust each other when they're thrust into hellish circumstances.