“ A horse blanket, Mel?I remembered what I was wearing. 'It tore in half when Hrani tried washing it. She was going to mend it. This piece was too small for a horse, but it was just right for me.'Bran l… Sherwood Smith
“ 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
“ Are they trained to treat everyone as a servant?''Probably. That doesn't make you into one, Sherwood Smith
“ What if feeling good only comes after you destroy someone you hate?''That's not good, that's triumph, Sherwood Smith
“ Finally someone takes me seriously enough to ask for my word of honor, and it’s a villain. Sherwood Smith
“ 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?''Life is a play, isn't it? Sherwood Smith
“ 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… Sherwood Smith
“ 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
“ The only noise now was the rain, pattering softly with the magnificent indifference of nature for the tangled passions of humans. Sherwood Smith
“ 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,"… Sherwood Smith
“ But I will never ask anyone from our village-from any village in Tlanth-to risk his or her life unless I'm willing to myself. Sherwood Smith
“ Montrose tasted the coffee. No bitterness, a blend of several beans--some of which had been grown precisely the same way for over a thousand years--and just the right temperature. If pressed, he could… Sherwood Smith
“ All I can report is that I felt pretty sick, nearly as sick as I’d been when I fell into Ara’s chickenyard. Sick at heart as well, for I knew there was no escape for Meliara Astiar after all; therefor… Sherwood Smith
“ How about writing to your brother? Oria asked at last.Bran is good, and kind, and as honest as the stars are old, I said, but the more I read, the more I realize that he has no political sense at all.… Sherwood Smith
“ When I turned thirteen and took a typing class, with typical early teen enthusiasm and total lack of critical ability, I started sending my stuff to publishers once I'd babysat long enough to earn the… Sherwood Smith
“ I crossed the garden, staying near the hedgerow borders until the pathway debouched onto one of the lovely brick streets. A quick glance down the street revealed scarcely any traffic--but way up at th… Sherwood Smith
