Sharon Shinn Quotes

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• 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 actions and he dwells in my heart. I know he is there.

  Sharon Shinn

  Prayer, Believe, Heart

  Sharon Shinn (2016). “Archangel”, p.178, Hachette UK

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• 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.

  Sharon Shinn

  Heart, Hands, Way

  Sharon Shinn (2016). “Jenna Starborn”, p.190, Hachette UK

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• 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 emotional bonds-those are the ones that break, the ones that fail you, the ones that give way and send you careening toward the foot of the bleak and jagged canyon. It's the tough, gnarled, unadorned ties that really do bind, that never let you fall all the way down into darkness.

  Sharon Shinn

  Fall, Emotional, Feet

  Sharon Shinn (2012). “The Shape of Desire”, p.54, Penguin

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

  Sharon Shinn

  Sometimes, Refuse, Models

  "Summers at Castle Auburn". Book by Sharon Shinn, 2001.

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• 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.

  Sharon Shinn

  Fire, Ends, Said

  Sharon Shinn (1997). “Archangel”, p.143, Penguin

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• I am who I am, born that way, and will die that way.

  Sharon Shinn

  Who I Am, Way, Born

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• 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.

  Sharon Shinn

  Love You, Heart, Choices

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• Love is like water from the ocean." Damiana said. "You cannot empty it dry. Take bucket after bucket of water out of the Cormeon Sea, and there is still more water left than you could ever use up. That's what love's like.

  Sharon Shinn

  Ocean, Love Is, Sea

  Sharon Shinn (2005). “The Safe-Keeper's Secret”, p.25, Penguin

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• He is so kind that he makes me search my soul to find new ways to be compassionate to others.

  Sharon Shinn

  Soul, Way, Kind

  Sharon Shinn (2017). “Heart of Gold”, p.146, Hachette UK

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• If love makes you sad, you acquire a little depth, a little compassion. If it makes you happy, you learn how to be joyous. Every relationship should color your soul to a certain degree, don't you think? Every friendship, every love affair - each one should build up the chambers of your heart the way a sea creature builds the chamber of his shell.

  Sharon Shinn

  Heart, Thinking, Compassion

  Sharon Shinn (1998). “Jovah's Angel”, p.257, Penguin

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

  Sharon Shinn

  Love Is, Misery, Notion

  Sharon Shinn (2016). “Jenna Starborn”, p.172, Hachette UK

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• It is very easy to shun someone who is deliberately cruel, and everyone loathes a man who is brutal and vicious. Such people have a hard time winning followers. But an individual who is gracious, who is attractive, who smiles and flatters and praises - that is a person who can lead whole nations to disaster. Who would not want to follow such a man or woman? Everyone is drawn to beauty and wit.

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  Hard Times, Winning, Men

  Sharon Shinn (2009). “Gateway”, p.71, Penguin

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• Manufactured--synthetic--even virtual, if that is what you turned out to be--I would love you.

  Sharon Shinn

  Love You, Synthetic, Ifs

  Sharon Shinn (2016). “Jenna Starborn”, p.133, Hachette UK

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• 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 he left her, she would be camped in his heart, an insistent and willful presence. She would match her strides to his on any journey he ever took; she would lie beside him on any bed. Amalie, he said, "that's the easiest promise I've ever had to make.

  Sharon Shinn

  Lying, Heart, Sunshine

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• 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.

  Sharon Shinn

  Dream, Dust, Secret

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

  Sharon Shinn

  Greed, Desire, Ecstasy

  Sharon Shinn (2016). “Jenna Starborn”, p.107, Hachette UK

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• 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 futures all pressing in on you at once. It is your last chance to experience them, you see, and they all want to be lived at that moment.

  Sharon Shinn

  Wedding, Thinking, Doubt

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• I realized a long time ago, with a certain amazement, that no mattter how important something is in your life, no matter how huge it is, how much space it takes up in your heart and in your thoughts, unless you mention it to other people, they have no idea it exists.

  Sharon Shinn

  Heart, Ideas, Space

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

  Sharon Shinn

  Travel, Heart, Journey

  Sharon Shinn (2006). “Mystic and Rider”, p.334, Penguin

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• she had something I could not have, and so I resented her—but I realized the fault was mine and not hers.

  Sharon Shinn

  Faults, I Realized, Mines

  Sharon Shinn (2001). “Summers at Castle Auburn”, p.191, Penguin

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• He looked down at his empty glass. "One of the other ways in which I am different from my father," he said. "I am not interested in marrying where I do not love." I spoke in a jesting voice. "And of all the women in the eight provinces, you have not been able to find one you could love?" Now he looked at me again, and his face was completely serious. "That's the problem," he said. "There is one.

  Sharon Shinn

  Father, Glasses, Eight

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• A truth that no one knows is still the truth.

  Sharon Shinn

  Stills, Knows

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• If there is no god, what is left but science? What is left to endow us with any grace? You can tell me the chemical makeup of my skin and my brain, but how can you explain away my soul? And if there is no god to watch over me, chastise me, grieve for me, rejoice for me, make me fear, and make me wonder, what am I but a collection of metals and liquids with nothing to celebrate about my daily living?

  Sharon Shinn

  Makeup, Grieving, Grace

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

  Sharon Shinn

  Hurt, Love Is, Afraid To Love

  Sharon Shinn (1997). “Archangel”, p.298, Penguin

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

  Sharon Shinn

  My Love For You, Elementals, Dies

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