Sherwood Smith
The only noise now was the rain, pattering softly with the magnificent indifference of nature for the tangled passions of humans.Collection: Rain
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.Collection: Memories
When people first discover beauty, they tend to linger. Even if they don’t at first recognize it for what it is.Collection: People
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.Collection: Spring
When in doubt, be ridiculous.Collection: Doubt
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.Collection: Falling In Love
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.Collection: Laughter
One doesn't lose a self, like a pair of gloves or a pine. We learn and change, or we harden into stone.Collection: Self
We'll abduct Garian. Or Jason." "And—?" "And dump them into the ocean. Nobody would ever pay a ransom for them.Collection: Ocean
Despite how entertaining certain stories were, at the bottom of every item of gossip there was someone getting hurt.Collection: Hurt
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.Collection: Hurt
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.Collection: Play
I had seen ardency in men's eyes, but I had only felt it once. With Flauvic, false and therefore easy to dismiss. I suddenly wished that I could feel it now. No, I did feel it. I did have the same feeling, only I had masked it as restlessness, or as the exhortation to action, or as anger. I thought how wonderful it would be to see that spark now, in the right pair of eyes.Collection: Eye
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.Collection: Song
Why did I laugh at his sorry, bedraggled appearance? Because ridiculousness made a repellant situation more bearable.Collection: Sorry
Everyone is an idiot," I stated. "Except me.Collection: Idiot
Because you showed one face to all the rest of the world, and another to me.Collection: World
Finally someone takes me seriously enough to ask for my word of honor, and it’s a villain.Collection: Honor
They're safe,'' he said. "And you're not made of glass". He swept me up in his arms. I laughed. "And I'm not made of glass." He carried me into our room and kicked the door shut behind us.Collection: Glasses
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.Collection: Men
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.Collection: Kissing
Female authors were still using male names when I was young, or they were neatly shoehorned into womens books except for those few that men could always point at when the disparity was pointed out.Collection: Book