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

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

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

A truth that no one knows is still the truth.

Sharon Shinn
Stills, Knows

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.

Sharon Shinn
Hard Times, Winning, Men
Sharon Shinn (2009). “Gateway”, p.71, Penguin

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 be clumsy and stupid and dulled by my own prejudices? I try to be a good man, since I am alive at all, and hope that that teaches me what I would need to know if I was ever faced with a higher challenge.

Sharon Shinn
Kings, Stupid, Men

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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