Top 40 Sharon Shinn Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “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

2. “A truth that no one knows is still the truth.”

— Sharon Shinn

3. “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

4. “I am who I am, born that way, and will die that way.”

— Sharon Shinn

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

— Sharon Shinn

6. “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

7. “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

8. “The debt of friendship is never collected,” he interrupted. “And nothing is ever owed.”

— Sharon Shinn

9. “Everybody’s afraid of love, because love is what hurts the most.”

— Sharon Shinn

10. “If mankind’s greatest achievement is to produce more spaces for mankind to live in, I do not think I am so impressed.”

— Sharon Shinn

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

— Sharon Shinn

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

— Sharon Shinn

13. “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

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

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15. “I was Amazement – I was Desire – I was Ecstasy and Rapture and the slightest bit of Greed.”

— Sharon Shinn

16. “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

17. “She should leave you. Or you shouldn’t leave her. I haven’t worked it out yet. But you shouldn’t be apart.”

— Sharon Shinn

18. “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

19. “I am not like other women. I do not like the things they like or feel the things they feel. And it is better so. I do not want to be like them. I do not want to turn into one of them.”

— Sharon Shinn

20. “If you did leave,′ he said. ‘If you did simply walk out the doors and stroll down the mountain, leaving behind no word of where you were going or why, I would come looking for you. I would never stop looking for you. I would find you, too.”

— Sharon Shinn

21. “She was not who she wanted to be. And not only did she not know how to make herself over into someone else, she wasn’t even sure who she wanted to become.”

— Sharon Shinn

22. “I could come up with no answer. He had kissed my hand. The forces of gravity came unraveled; there was no cohesion at the core of the world, no order in the universe. Clouds and trees and birds and suns spun around of their own volition, freed from their laws and routines. Bryan had kissed my hand. I could not be rational; and so nothing in the world would make sense again.”

— Sharon Shinn

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

— Sharon Shinn

24. “But I am king. And the well-being of my kingdom depends on my sound judgment and clear head. And those things depend on my state of happiness. And I have known for a long time that my state of happiness depends on you.”

— Sharon Shinn

25. “To some extent, it doesn’t matter who we are or where we came from – what kind of family brought us into this world,′ Josie said softly. ‘We become who we were meant to be, and all those other influences fall away.”

— Sharon Shinn

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

— Sharon Shinn

27. “No such thing as too tall,” she said. She had automatically reached for a brush and now she began uncoiling the tangles of my hair. “It’s good for a woman to be able to look into a man’s eyes. Then she’s not afraid to tell him what she thinks.”

— Sharon Shinn

28. “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

29. “Because I was raised to believe that every man has a responsibility, and the strongest man has the heaviest responsibilities...”

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30. “I am your friend. I will not fail you at your darkest hour. For this, more than the prestige, he had always wanted to be a Rider – for this utter, bone-deep sense of commitment to a unit and an ideal.”

— Sharon Shinn

31. “I think we broaden our minds and our experiences if we can learn to embrace things that at one point filled us with revulsion.”

— Sharon Shinn

32. “You’re wasting your time, she wanted to tell them. I don’t care about your cars or your properties or your bags of gold. What have you done with your life? What are you going to do with it? That’s all that matters.”

— Sharon Shinn

33. “I did no such thing as sit there with my mouth open, though I may as well have, since I felt as if my mind was gaping. It had simply never occurred to me to wonder what kind of person I was, what kind of person I wanted to be. I had not envisioned this as something I had any control over, just as I could not alter the round shape of my face or the dense black curl of my hair.”

— Sharon Shinn

34. “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

35. “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

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36. “Manufactured – synthetic – even virtual, if that is what you turned out to be – I would love you.”

— Sharon Shinn

37. “I was irritable, Kent was taciturn, Damien was withdrawn, and Bryan was downright sullen. It was hard to tell if Roderick had any sort of mood upon him; he did not seem like the type to inflict his humors on his companions.”

— Sharon Shinn

38. “I have changed for the last time – this is the man I will be till I die. And that man loves you.”

— Sharon Shinn

39. “You can hardly walk up to complete strangers and say, “Good for you! You’ve risked banishment and brutality and ostracism just to be together, and I applaud your choice! You’re in the vanguard of social change, and even though it’s hard on you, the generations that come after you will have an easier time of it because you were brave enough to fall in love.” So instead I told them I liked their baby. It means the same thing, but it’s more socially acceptable.”

— Sharon Shinn

40. “You do not decide first if you want to live in a village or a court. You decide if that is the man you want to live with, and then you say yes or no.”

— Sharon Shinn

41. “Why had the counterfeit timbre of his voice rung true to me? What had prompted me to believe a man who spent most of his life dissembling? Why had I, usually so suspicious, become so credulous and simpleminded in his presence? Was it just that I had wanted to hear someone tell me he loved me? Was it just that the words he spoke, the vows he swore, were so freighted with sweetness that they would have seemed true no matter who spoke them?”

— Sharon Shinn