Quotes by Sharon Shinn

About Sharon Shinn:

Sharon Shinn is an American novelist who writes combining aspects of fantasy, science fiction and romance. She has published more than a dozen novels for adult and young adult readers. Her works include the Shifting Circles Series, the Samaria Series, the Twelve Houses Series, and a rewriting of Jane Eyre, Jenna Starborn. She works as a journalist in St. Louis, Missouri and is a graduate of Northwestern University.
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Moron, your bus is leaving-from Groundhogs Day Bill Murray

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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.

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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...

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A truth that no one knows is still the truth.

Sharon Shinn

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

Sharon Shinn

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

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 ...

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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 ...

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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 prejudice...

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And how is your head? Better?" he asked. "Very much. Sometimes it hurts." Right now it was throbbing. "But every day I am much improved." "Where did you hit it? Are you bruised?" I put a hand to the back of my head, a little to the left, where I had ...

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she had something I could not have, and so I resented her—but I realized the fault was mine and not hers.

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I've remembered that most of life is about small, essential connections, so unobtrusive, so elastic, that you scarcely realize they're actually holding you together. The big ones-the great, grand emotional bonds-those are the ones that break, the one...

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You have not traveled enough," she said. "Or you'd know that every journey makes its own map across your heart.

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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 g...

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Author Bio

  • NameSharon Shinn
  • DescriptionAmerican science fiction writer
  • Born1957
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionJournalist; Novelist