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Crown Duel

Sherwood Smith

The Fox

Sherwood Smith

A Stranger to Command

Sherwood Smith

Crown Duel

Sherwood Smith

The Fox

Sherwood Smith

A Stranger to Command

Sherwood Smith

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Famous Sherwood Smith Quotes

“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, 2009)

“What's it really like to always be the prettiest person in a room? Dos it mean you're always acting as if in a play, because no one stops looking at you?”

Sherwood Smith

Remalna's Children (Crown & Court 2.5, 2011)

“I realized that despite how entertaining certain stories were, at the bottom of every item of gossip there was someone getting hurt.”

Sherwood Smith book Crown Duel

Source: Crown Duel (Crown & Court #1 - 2, 1997)

“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

Source: King's Shield (Inda #3, 2008)

“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

Source: Court Duel

“Finally someone takes me seriously enough to ask for my word of honor, and it’s a villain.”

Sherwood Smith

Source: Remalna's Children (Crown & Court 2.5, 2011)

Sherwood Smith Quotes about people

“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 book Crown Duel

Source: 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

“It is a shame when we must regard a people as an enemy. It is a shame and a regret when the two peoples share so much. And it is a shame, a regret, and a tragedy when those peoples meet as individuals and find much to admire.”

Sherwood Smith

King's Shield (Inda #3, 2008)

“If more people recognized the difference between friendship and mere attraction, and how love must partake of both to prosper, I expect there'd be more happy people.”

Sherwood Smith book Crown Duel

Crown Duel (Crown & Court #1 - 2, 1997)

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

Sherwood Smith

Treason's Shore (Inda #4, 2009)

“I've been working hard at assuming Court polish, but the more I learn about what really goes on behind the pretty voices and waving fans and graceful bows, the more I comprehend that what is really said matters little, so long as the manner in which it is said pleases. I understand it, but I don't like it. Were I truly influential, then I would halt this foolishness that decrees that in Court one cannot be sick; that to admit you are sick is really to admit to political or social or romantic defeat; that to admit to any emotions usually means one really feels the opposite. It is a terrible kind of falsehood that people can only claim feelings as a kind of social weapon.”

Sherwood Smith book Crown Duel

Crown Duel (Crown & Court #1 - 2, 1997)

Sherwood Smith Quotes

“When in doubt, be ridiculous.”

Sherwood Smith

Remalna's Children (Crown & Court 2.5, 2011)
Source: 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

“Who in the universe halts when the enemy tells them to?”

Sherwood Smith book Crown Duel

Source: Crown Duel (Crown & Court #1 - 2, 1997)

“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 book Crown Duel

Source: Crown Duel (Crown & Court #1 - 2, 1997)

“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 book Crown Duel

Source: Crown 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

Source: Court Duel

“Because you showed one face to all the rest of the world, and another to me.”

Sherwood Smith book Crown Duel

Source: Crown Duel

“Everyone is an idiot," I stated. "Except me.”

Sherwood Smith

Source: The Trouble with Kings

“Probably. That doesn't make you into one.”

Sherwood Smith

Remalna's Children (Crown & Court 2.5, 2011)

“If your opponent is better armed and has longer reach, then surprise is your only ally. And then you'd better hope he's half asleep.”

Sherwood Smith book Crown Duel

Crown Duel (Crown & Court #1 - 2, 1997)

“Are they trained to treat everyone as a servant?”

Sherwood Smith

Remalna's Children (Crown & Court 2.5, 2011)

“Choose the duty that you can most effectively execute: that is, finally, all we can do in life.”

Sherwood Smith book A Stranger to Command

A Stranger to Command (Crown & Court 0.5, 2008)

“What might have happened to them to make them the way they were? It did not change what they now did, but it changed, profoundly, how he perceived their motivations, their place in the world.”

Sherwood Smith book The Fox

The Fox (Inda #2, 2007)

“Judging the actions of the many by those of the one is both human and dangerous.”

Sherwood Smith book The Fox

The Fox (Inda #2, 2007)

“It desolates me to disappoint you, but your brother is not here. Despite two really praiseworthy attempts at rescue.”

Sherwood Smith book Crown Duel

dialogue between Vidanric and his prisoner-of-war Meliara.
Crown Duel (Crown & Court #1 - 2, 1997)

“What if feeling good only comes after you destroy someone you hate?”

Sherwood Smith

Remalna's Children (Crown & Court 2.5, 2011)

“He’d spent his entire exile schooling himself to face that he would never get what he wanted. People didn’t, sometimes. So you made a life as best you could.”

Sherwood Smith

King's Shield (Inda #3, 2008)

“That's not good, that's triumph.”

Sherwood Smith

Remalna's Children (Crown & Court 2.5, 2011)

“Nothing is "always," my dear. Except the greater truths, one of which is that power begets politics, and politics are more dangerous than war because there are fewer rules.”

Sherwood Smith book Inda

Source: Inda (Inda #1, 2006), Chapter One

“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 talked 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 book Crown Duel

Crown Duel (Crown & Court #1 - 2, 1997)

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