Sharon Shinn citations

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

“For the world slows and the stars falter, and all that remains is you…”

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