Top 40 Sharon Cameron Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “We’re always living days we can never get back. So we make new ones. That’s all.”

— Sharon Cameron

2. “It’s my choice today that is the memory of tomorrow. It’s my choice that determines what I will become. Not the memories of the past.”

— Sharon Cameron

3. “The past is never really gone. It only lies in wait for you, remembered or forgotten.”

— Sharon Cameron

4. “Truth can look so flimsy and feeble sometimes. It’s one of the things I hold against it.”

— Sharon Cameron

5. “Przemysl taught me long ago not to divide people by their country, their religion, or even their preferences in politics. The city taught me how to put people in their proper places on the map. And I know exactly where to place my nurses.”

— Sharon Cameron

6. “Knowing the truth makes me alone. I wrote that once, but I think I was wrong. Fear of pain is what has made me alone. But today I realized that pain and love have a balance. I can feel so much of one only because I feel so much of the other.”

— Sharon Cameron

7. “Today I found I’m not afraid of the unknown. Today I discovered that the unknown loved me, and that I loved it back.”

— Sharon Cameron

8. “I am made of my memories.”

— Sharon Cameron

9. “But today I realized that pain and love have a balance. I can feel so much of one only because I feel so much of the other.”

— Sharon Cameron

10. “Right is right, even when all are against it, and wrong is wrong, even when all are for it.”

— Sharon Cameron

11. “You are the variable in every equation, Mademoiselle.”

— Sharon Cameron

12. “Le persone si stancano quando sono troppo grandi.”

— Sharon Cameron

13. “It had taught me that people like to divvy up one another with names. Jew. Catholic. German. Pole. But these were the wrong names. They were the wrong dividing lines. Kindness. Cruelty. Love and hate. These were the borders that mattered.”

— Sharon Cameron

14. “But who can find the truth in Canaan? Janis doesn’t tell it, the Learning Room doesn’t teach it. My father has twisted it, Mother half forgotten it, and the Forgetting is the thief that steals it.”

— Sharon Cameron

15. “She was going to walk into the Sunken City and empty every stinking hole in the Tombs. Let LeBlanc’s Goddess explain that to the mob.”

— Sharon Cameron

16. “The people are in need of a dose of terror. They must feel that they have no choice, can effect no change, or we will have more change than we currently know how to handle.:.”

— Sharon Cameron

17. “I’m not sure what there is to say. Everything? Or nothing.”

— Sharon Cameron

18. “She was clever, and beautiful, and hard as burnished bronze.”

— Sharon Cameron

19. “We are made of our memories.”

— Sharon Cameron

20. “I have lived my life so frightened of pain it’s been paralyzing. I hate pain, but I hate fear more, and I’ve eaten fear every day of my life because of the Forgetting.”

— Sharon Cameron

21. “He tossed the potato up and down, up and down, a thin smile creeping out from the corners of his mouth.”

— Sharon Cameron

22. “He thought she was someone who could break the pattern of history. And he was offering to break it with her.”

— Sharon Cameron

23. “It was because this stark world LeBlanc was trying to create was a lie; there was spectrum of color between black and white, and many, many layers of choice between yes and no.”

— Sharon Cameron

24. “Credo che tuo zio Tulman abbia perso il suo equilibrio mentale.”

— Sharon Cameron

25. “We are supposed to write the truth, for no one to see but ourselves. But how easily that truth can be twisted. Bend a little here, omit a little there, make yourself into the person you wish you were instead of the person you are. How easy to cut the truth away, to throw it in a fire, open your eyes, and have the whole world remember nothing of who you are. Nothing of what you’ve done. When you will not remember who you are or what you’ve done.”

— Sharon Cameron

26. “Sometimes legends can be true.”

— Sharon Cameron

27. “Daughter stealer.”

— Sharon Cameron

28. “You are the single most beautiful thing I have ever looked at in my life.”

— Sharon Cameron

29. “I put on embarrassment in the same way I put on Liliya’s dress. It clings to my skin.”

— Sharon Cameron

30. “I think pain is a thing that, when it fills your cup, you shouldn’t keep pouring from the pitcher.”

— Sharon Cameron

31. “The heavy blade hung high above the prisoners, glinting against the stars, and then the Razor came down, a wedge of falling darkness cutting through the torchlight. One solid thump, and four more heads had been shaved from their bodies.”

— Sharon Cameron

32. “Have you ever thought, ” he said after a moment, “that perhaps... all of this could have happened before? That the people of the Time Before, no matter how weak we think them, that they were only making the mistakes of their ancesters and that we, in turn, are only making the same mistakes as them? Technology or no? That the time changes but people do not, and so we are never really moving forward, only around a bend? That the world only ever turns in circles. do you think that could be so?”

— Sharon Cameron

33. “Because I dared.”

— Sharon Cameron

34. “Should she pretend to like it, when she really did, all while pretending that she didn’t?”

— Sharon Cameron

35. “What if the Ancients used the number of ticks to mark the time of day, instead of the height of the sun or moon? so highmoon could happen here... ” “That way highmoon is not the time; highmoon is happening at the different time every night. If you’re counting the ticks as time.”

— Sharon Cameron

36. “Her grief for both of them was flavored with guilt the way salt flavors the sea; she could taste it in the tears.”

— Sharon Cameron

37. “Di velt iz sheyn nor di mentshn makhn zi mies,” he said. “The world is beautiful, but people make it ugly.”

— Sharon Cameron

38. “Shadow is ever besieged, for that is its nature. While darkness devours, and light steals. And so no one sees shadow ever retreat to hidden places, only to return in the wake of the war between dark and light.”

— Sharon Cameron

39. “Surely there was not another soul in England that could delude themselves like I could.”

— Sharon Cameron

40. “Reality is the condition we create for ourselves. If one side believes.”

— Sharon Cameron