Top 30 Sherwood Smith Quotes (2024 Update)

Sherwood Smith Quote: “Except. What is normal at any given time? We change just as the seasons change, and each spring brings new growth. So nothing is ever quite the same.”

1. “Except. What is normal at any given time? We change just as the seasons change, and each spring brings new growth. So nothing is ever quite the same.”

— Sherwood Smith

Sherwood Smith Quote: “The only noise now was the rain, pattering softly with the magnificent indifference of nature for the tangled passions of humans.”

2. “The only noise now was the rain, pattering softly with the magnificent indifference of nature for the tangled passions of humans.”

— Sherwood Smith

Sherwood Smith Quote: “When in doubt, be ridiculous.”

3. “When in doubt, be ridiculous.”

— Sherwood Smith

Sherwood Smith Quote: “Everyone is an idiot,” I stated. “Except me.”

4. “Everyone is an idiot,” I stated. “Except me.”

— Sherwood Smith

Sherwood Smith Quote: “When you love something enough time races ahead like the wind chasing autumn leaves, sending them skipping and dancing out of reach, no matter how fast you run. But when you want something and must wait to get it, time stops.”

5. “When you love something enough time races ahead like the wind chasing autumn leaves, sending them skipping and dancing out of reach, no matter how fast you run. But when you want something and must wait to get it, time stops.”

— Sherwood Smith

Sherwood Smith Quote: “So let me end with the wish that you find the same kind of happyiness, and laughter, and love, that I have found, and that you have the wisdon to make them last.”

6. “So let me end with the wish that you find the same kind of happyiness, and laughter, and love, that I have found, and that you have the wisdon to make them last.”

— Sherwood Smith

Sherwood Smith Quote: “When people first discover beauty, they tend to linger. Even if they don’t at first recognize it for what it is.”

7. “When people first discover beauty, they tend to linger. Even if they don’t at first recognize it for what it is.”

— Sherwood Smith

Sherwood Smith Quote: “I had seen ardency in men’s eyes, but I had only felt it once. With Flauvic, false and therefore easy to dismiss. I suddenly wished that I could feel it now. No, I did feel it. I did have the same feeling, only I had masked it as restlessness, or as the exhortation to action, or as anger. I thought how wonderful it would be to see that spark now, in the right pair of eyes.”

8. “I had seen ardency in men’s eyes, but I had only felt it once. With Flauvic, false and therefore easy to dismiss. I suddenly wished that I could feel it now. No, I did feel it. I did have the same feeling, only I had masked it as restlessness, or as the exhortation to action, or as anger. I thought how wonderful it would be to see that spark now, in the right pair of eyes.”

— Sherwood Smith

Sherwood Smith Quote: “I feel stupid when people say ‘You? You are so brave,’ because I don’t feel brave, I don’t even know what brave is.”

9. “I feel stupid when people say ‘You? You are so brave,’ because I don’t feel brave, I don’t even know what brave is.”

— Sherwood Smith

Sherwood Smith Quote: “Angry men with pointy things sent to secure a foreign city are pretty much alike anywhere. That’s what I’ve heard. So far nothing’s convinced me different.”

10. “Angry men with pointy things sent to secure a foreign city are pretty much alike anywhere. That’s what I’ve heard. So far nothing’s convinced me different.”

— Sherwood Smith

Sherwood Smith Quote: “Memory warps time, as it does the sights and sounds and smells of reality; for what shapes it is emotion, which can twist what seems clear, just as the surface of a pond seems to bend the stick thrust into the water.”

11. “Memory warps time, as it does the sights and sounds and smells of reality; for what shapes it is emotion, which can twist what seems clear, just as the surface of a pond seems to bend the stick thrust into the water.”

— Sherwood Smith

Sherwood Smith Quote: “No, I don’t think I could fall in love with him, handsome though he is, because I don’t accept any of that huff he gives me about my great beauty and all that. I’d have to trust a man’s words before I could love him. I think.”

12. “No, I don’t think I could fall in love with him, handsome though he is, because I don’t accept any of that huff he gives me about my great beauty and all that. I’d have to trust a man’s words before I could love him. I think.”

— Sherwood Smith

Sherwood Smith Quote: “Why did I laugh at his sorry, bedraggled appearance? Because ridiculousness made a repellant situation more bearable.”

13. “Why did I laugh at his sorry, bedraggled appearance? Because ridiculousness made a repellant situation more bearable.”

— Sherwood Smith

Sherwood Smith Quote: “As soon as we’re born, we become a part of patterns, the intimate ones we create with those we live among, and the patterns so large that it takes a lifetime to perceive a fragment of the possibilities.”

14. “As soon as we’re born, we become a part of patterns, the intimate ones we create with those we live among, and the patterns so large that it takes a lifetime to perceive a fragment of the possibilities.”

— Sherwood Smith

Sherwood Smith Quote: “One thing I still remembered from my war days was how to move in shrubbery.”

15. “One thing I still remembered from my war days was how to move in shrubbery.”

— Sherwood Smith

Sherwood Smith Quote: “Female authors were still using male names when I was young, or they were neatly shoehorned into womens books except for those few that men could always point at when the disparity was pointed out.”

16. “Female authors were still using male names when I was young, or they were neatly shoehorned into womens books except for those few that men could always point at when the disparity was pointed out.”

— Sherwood Smith

Sherwood Smith Quote: “Maybe I’m no longer a dog, but I can still bite!”

17. “Maybe I’m no longer a dog, but I can still bite!”

— Sherwood Smith

Sherwood Smith Quote: “No, my career as a warrior princess, short as it had been, was over, I thought morosely. Violence only works if you’re good at it. Otherwise, it hurts too much.”

18. “No, my career as a warrior princess, short as it had been, was over, I thought morosely. Violence only works if you’re good at it. Otherwise, it hurts too much.”

— Sherwood Smith

Sherwood Smith Quote: “What might have happened to them to make them the way they were? It did not change what they now did, but it changed, profoundly, how he perceived their motivations, their place in the world.”

19. “What might have happened to them to make them the way they were? It did not change what they now did, but it changed, profoundly, how he perceived their motivations, their place in the world.”

— Sherwood Smith

Sherwood Smith Quote: “He said the proclivities for indulging in gossip stems from the same impulse as the reading of novels, only gossip touches on real people. Therein lies the harm.”

20. “He said the proclivities for indulging in gossip stems from the same impulse as the reading of novels, only gossip touches on real people. Therein lies the harm.”

— Sherwood Smith

Sherwood Smith Quote: “At the best of times I don’t have the kind of voice anyone would want to hear mangling their favorite songs.”

21. “At the best of times I don’t have the kind of voice anyone would want to hear mangling their favorite songs.”

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Sherwood Smith Quote: “Because you showed one face to all the rest of the world, and another to me.”

22. “Because you showed one face to all the rest of the world, and another to me.”

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Sherwood Smith Quote: “I endeavor to be serious and you will not take me seriously.”

23. “I endeavor to be serious and you will not take me seriously.”

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Sherwood Smith Quote: “Choose the duty that you can most effectively execute: that is, finally, all we can do in life.”

24. “Choose the duty that you can most effectively execute: that is, finally, all we can do in life.”

— Sherwood Smith

Sherwood Smith Quote: “Finally someone takes me seriously enough to ask for my word of honor, and it’s a villain.”

25. “Finally someone takes me seriously enough to ask for my word of honor, and it’s a villain.”

— Sherwood Smith

Sherwood Smith Quote: “One doesn’t lose a self, like a pair of gloves or a pine. We learn and change, or we harden into stone.”

26. “One doesn’t lose a self, like a pair of gloves or a pine. We learn and change, or we harden into stone.”

— Sherwood Smith

Sherwood Smith Quote: “The less said about that morning’s ride, the better. I would have been uncomfortable even if I’d been riding with Branaric, for my leg ached steadily from the jarring of the horse’s pace. To be riding along in the clasp of an enemy just made my spirits feel the worse.”

27. “The less said about that morning’s ride, the better. I would have been uncomfortable even if I’d been riding with Branaric, for my leg ached steadily from the jarring of the horse’s pace. To be riding along in the clasp of an enemy just made my spirits feel the worse.”

— Sherwood Smith

Sherwood Smith Quote: “Despite how entertaining certain stories were, at the bottom of every item of gossip there was someone getting hurt.”

28. “Despite how entertaining certain stories were, at the bottom of every item of gossip there was someone getting hurt.”

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Sherwood Smith Quote: “But I will never ask anyone from our village-from any village in Tlanth-to risk his or her life unless I’m willing to myself.”

29. “But I will never ask anyone from our village-from any village in Tlanth-to risk his or her life unless I’m willing to myself.”

— Sherwood Smith

Sherwood Smith Quote: “Montrose tasted the coffee. No bitterness, a blend of several beans – some of which had been grown precisely the same way for over a thousand years – and just the right temperature. If pressed, he could name the chemical makeup of the coffee and the reaction of the human body to the brew. Yet there was still an almost mystical sense of well-being that few things imparted just by smell, taste, and warmth, and coffee was one.”

30. “Montrose tasted the coffee. No bitterness, a blend of several beans – some of which had been grown precisely the same way for over a thousand years – and just the right temperature. If pressed, he could name the chemical makeup of the coffee and the reaction of the human body to the brew. Yet there was still an almost mystical sense of well-being that few things imparted just by smell, taste, and warmth, and coffee was one.”

— Sherwood Smith

Sherwood Smith Quote: “Love is one of the simplest of what we call the Mysteries, and yet the strongest, like air: the greatest treasure cannot buy it nor the smartest thief steal it nor the most powerful emperor command it. And like air, it freely fills to infinity whatever is open to it.”

31. “Love is one of the simplest of what we call the Mysteries, and yet the strongest, like air: the greatest treasure cannot buy it nor the smartest thief steal it nor the most powerful emperor command it. And like air, it freely fills to infinity whatever is open to it.”

— Sherwood Smith

Sherwood Smith Quote: “I really needed time to think, and – so I figured – if my life was destined to continue at such a headlong pace, I was going to have to learn to perform my cerebrations while dashing back and forth cross-country at the gallop.”

32. “I really needed time to think, and – so I figured – if my life was destined to continue at such a headlong pace, I was going to have to learn to perform my cerebrations while dashing back and forth cross-country at the gallop.”

— Sherwood Smith

Sherwood Smith Quote: “Dun came to realize that a man whose entire purpose for living is to command a war will not want to spend his life waiting for its possibility. He was going to have one, and he was going to see to it – after all, it made military sense – that he would have it on his own terms, the ones with which he expected to win.”

33. “Dun came to realize that a man whose entire purpose for living is to command a war will not want to spend his life waiting for its possibility. He was going to have one, and he was going to see to it – after all, it made military sense – that he would have it on his own terms, the ones with which he expected to win.”

— Sherwood Smith

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