“ 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. Sharon Shinn
“ I'm fascinated by the idea of disparate, difficult people learning to trust each other when they're thrust into hellish circumstances. Sharon Shinn
“ You can hardly walk up to complete strangers and say, "Good for you! You've risked banishment and brutality and ostracism just to be together, and I applaud your choice! You're in the vanguard of soci… Sharon Shinn
“ I was Amazement--I was Desire--I was Ecstasy and Rapture and the slightest bit of Greed. Sharon Shinn
“ She had something I could not have, and so I resented her—but I realized the fault was mine and not hers. Sharon Shinn
“ 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. Sharon Shinn
“ For people who make up stories for a living, that is the ultimate success: knowing that, when the book closes, when the series ends, the adventure is not over. It goes on without the creator, in the m… Sharon Shinn
“ If mankind's greatest achievement is to produce more spaces for mankind to live in, I do not think I am so impressed. Sharon Shinn
“ And how is your head? Better?" he asked."Very much. Sometimes it hurts." Right now it was throbbing. "But every day I am much improved.""Where did you hit it? Are you bruised?"I put a hand to the back… Sharon Shinn
“ 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 h… Sharon Shinn
“ You almost threw it back!' she repeated, and her voice filled with mock horror.'You foolish boy! Are you always so careless with items of value?''No,' he said, abruptly sober. 'I know what matters. An… Sharon Shinn
“ 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 b… Sharon Shinn
“ You have not traveled enough," she said. "Or you'd know that every journeymakes its own map across your heart. Sharon Shinn
“ 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 emot… Sharon Shinn
“ There is nothing but heartache for a coru woman and a hunti man," she said, deliberately contrary. "He cannot control her and she cannot change him.""He never fails her and she always moves him," Dari… Sharon Shinn
“ Your wedding completely changes the direction of your life, you know, no matter how greatly you desire it. I think that moment of doubt and faintness comes from all those imagined and now impossible f… Sharon Shinn
“ 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. Sharon Shinn
“ But I am king. And the well-being of my kingdom depends on my sound judgment and clear head. And those things depend on my state of happiness. And I have known for a long time that my state of happine… Sharon Shinn
“ 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 act… Sharon Shinn
