My love for you is elemental and immutable, and it will sustain me until I die. Sharon Shinn More Quotes by Sharon Shinn More Quotes From Sharon Shinn 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 stupidkingsmen 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 spaceheartideas 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 eightglassesfather You have not traveled enough," she said. "Or you'd know that every journey makes its own map across your heart. Sharon Shinn journeyhearttravel she had something I could not have, and so I resented her—but I realized the fault was mine and not hers. Sharon Shinn i-realizedminesfaults She smiled, if he could see that, and waited for him to ask the real question. But he was silent. He wanted her to volunteer the story, she realized, and she could just as easily choose to say nothing. But he deserved to know. They all deserved it, and Kirra already knew it, and Cammon may have guessed it, because Cammon could read souls, but Tayse was the only one she would tell. Sharon Shinn volunteerrealsoul 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 refusemodelssometimes 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 morningnightfall Everybody's afraid of love, because love is what hurts the most. Sharon Shinn afraid-to-lovehurtlove-is I am who I am, born that way, and will die that way. Sharon Shinn bornwho-i-amway I have changed for the last time--this is the man I will be till I die. And that man loves you. Sharon Shinn lastslove-youmen I thought it would not hurt to remind you that love is a powerful force in this world, invisible though it seems. Sharon Shinn powerfulhurtlove-is 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 supporttasksworld 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 achievementspacethinking Yet the world is the same as it always was. It is merely that you see it with new eyes. Sharon Shinn new-eyeseyeworld For the world slows and the stars falter, and all that remains is you. Sharon Shinn all-that-remainsstarsworld I'm fascinated by the idea of disparate, difficult people learning to trust each other when they're thrust into hellish circumstances. Sharon Shinn trustlearningcircumstancespeople As writers, we do our best to conjure a world so vivid that the reader can practically walk through it - but we're still only using words and relying on readers to do a lot of work of imagining. Providing pictures as well as words offers a whole new dimension to the experience of consuming a story. Sharon Shinn walkbestexperiencework I hadn't thought specifically about doing graphic novels until a couple of my friends got contracts for them. Then I started picturing how various of my stories or poems would work in an illustrated format and thinking how cool that would be. Sharon Shinn coolfriendsworkthinking I'm not sure how writers and artists of other graphic novels join forces, but this is how the process worked for me: First, I produced my final script. Then, Mark Siegel, my editor at First Second, assembled information about 10 or 12 different artists and had me look through their portfolios to see what kind of styles appealed to me. Sharon Shinn seelookmeinformation
