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.

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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.

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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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For the world slows and the stars falter, and all that remains is you.

Sharon Shinn

Stars, World, All That Remains

Sharon Shinn (1997). “Archangel”, p.285, Penguin

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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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Yet the world is the same as it always was. It is merely that you see it with new eyes.

Sharon Shinn

Eye, World, New Eyes

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I have changed for the last time--this is the man I will be till I die. And that man loves you.

Sharon Shinn

Love You, Men, Lasts

Sharon Shinn (2000). “Heart of Gold”, Ace Trade

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And if I should leave you, for any reason," he added, tightening his grip as she struggled to free her hand, "I will return to you. That is as certain as the sun rising tomorrow morning and the thunderbolt falling tomorrow night. That is as sure as the god's existence. I will come back to you, or I will find you - over and over again, as often as we are parted, until the end of the world itself.

Sharon Shinn

Morning, Fall, Night

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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

Support, Tasks, World

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I thought it would not hurt to remind you that love is a powerful force in this world, invisible though it seems.

Sharon Shinn

Hurt, Powerful, Love Is

Sharon Shinn (2004). “Angelica”, p.235, Penguin

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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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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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And might I live long enough to see the world yet again as a place completely different, through eyes that see another truth not yet revealed?

Sharon Shinn

Eye, Long, Different

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

Sharon Shinn

Love You, Heart, Atoms

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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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A truth that no one knows is still the truth.

Sharon Shinn

Stills, Knows

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