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A truth that no one knows is still the truth.
Sharon Shinn / Novelist
Knows
Stills
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I am who I am, born that way, and will die that way.
Sharon Shinn / Novelist
Born
Way
Who I Am
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Family tends to be one of the recurring themes in my fiction.
Sharon Shinn / Novelist
Recurring
Tends
Themes
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Everybody's afraid of love, because love is what hurts the most.
Sharon Shinn / Novelist
Afraid To Love
Hurt
Love Is
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For the world slows and the stars falter, and all that remains is you.
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All That Remains
Stars
World
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My love for you is elemental and immutable, and it will sustain me until I die.
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Dies
Elementals
My Love For You
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Love is a popular romantic notion that leads to nothing but its own brand of misery.
Sharon Shinn / Novelist
Love Is
Misery
Notion
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Yet the world is the same as it always was. It is merely that you see it with new eyes.
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Eye
New Eyes
World
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I was Amazement--I was Desire--I was Ecstasy and Rapture and the slightest bit of Greed.
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Desire
Ecstasy
Greed
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He is so kind that he makes me search my soul to find new ways to be compassionate to others.
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Kind
Soul
Way
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Manufactured--synthetic--even virtual, if that is what you turned out to be--I would love you.
Sharon Shinn / Novelist
Ifs
Love You
Synthetic
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I have changed for the last time--this is the man I will be till I die. And that man loves you.
Sharon Shinn / Novelist
Men
Lasts
Love You
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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.
Sharon Shinn / Novelist
Faults
I Realized
Mines
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She shouldn't leave you. Or you shouldn't leave her. I haven't worked it out yet. But you shouldn't be apart.
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Havens
Should
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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.
Sharon Shinn / Novelist
Journey
Travel
Heart
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I thought it would not hurt to remind you that love is a powerful force in this world, invisible though it seems.
Sharon Shinn / Novelist
Hurt
Love Is
Powerful
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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 / Novelist
Models
Refuse
Sometimes
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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 / Novelist
Space
Achievement
Thinking
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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 / Novelist
Dream
Dust
Secret
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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 / Novelist
Atoms
Heart
Love You
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I'm fascinated by the idea of disparate, difficult people learning to trust each other when they're thrust into hellish circumstances.
Sharon Shinn / Novelist
Circumstances
Fascinated
Thrust
Difficult People
Disparate
Hellish
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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 / Novelist
Hands
Heart
Way
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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 / Novelist
Different
Eye
Long
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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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Support
Tasks
World
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Only the strongest are put through the fire,' Josiah said. 'And the forge creates things of great strength and beauty.' 'Then I shall be truly glorious by the time my tenure ends.
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Ends
Fire
Said
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Do you love me?" he asked. I fell silent. "For the rest of it is glitter and noise," he said. "At the heart of it all is love. You make that choice, and you go forward from there.
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Choices
Heart
Love You
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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.
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Ocean
Love Is
Sea
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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 / Novelist
Contracts
Format
Graphic
Graphic Novels
Illustrated
Picturing
Specifically
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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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Believe
Heart
Prayer
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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 / Novelist
Space
Heart
Ideas
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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 / Novelist
Consuming
Offers
Providing
Reader
Vivid
Best Work Experience
Conjure
Dimension
Practically
Imagining
Relying
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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 last chance to experience them, you see, and they all want to be lived at that moment.
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Wedding
Desire
Doubt
Thinking
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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 / Novelist
Graphic
Graphic Novels
Appealed
Portfolio
Editor
Look Me Process
Forces
Join
Produced
Styles
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If love makes you sad, you acquire a little depth, a little compassion. If it makes you happy, you learn how to be joyous. Every relationship should color your soul to a certain degree, don't you think? Every friendship, every love affair - each one should build up the chambers of your heart the way a sea creature builds the chamber of his shell.
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Compassion
Heart
Thinking
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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.
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Real
Soul
Volunteer
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It is very easy to shun someone who is deliberately cruel, and everyone loathes a man who is brutal and vicious. Such people have a hard time winning followers. But an individual who is gracious, who is attractive, who smiles and flatters and praises - that is a person who can lead whole nations to disaster. Who would not want to follow such a man or woman? Everyone is drawn to beauty and wit.
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Men
Hard Times
Winning
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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 / Novelist
Morning
Fall
Night
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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.
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Eight
Father
Glasses
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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 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 / Novelist
Kings
Men
Challenges
Stupid
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If there is no god, what is left but science? What is left to endow us with any grace? You can tell me the chemical makeup of my skin and my brain, but how can you explain away my soul? And if there is no god to watch over me, chastise me, grieve for me, rejoice for me, make me fear, and make me wonder, what am I but a collection of metals and liquids with nothing to celebrate about my daily living?
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Grace
Grieving
Makeup
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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 insistent and willful presence. She would match her strides to his on any journey he ever took; she would lie beside him on any bed. Amalie, he said, "that's the easiest promise I've ever had to make.
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Journey
Heart
Lying
Sunshine
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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 ones that fail you, the ones that give way and send you careening toward the foot of the bleak and jagged canyon. It's the tough, gnarled, unadorned ties that really do bind, that never let you fall all the way down into darkness.
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Emotional
Fall
Feet
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