67 Quotes by Sherwood Smith

Who in the universe halts when the enemy tells them to?

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.

You're drunk as four skunks, you idiot.

Why is it the songs all end with the good people winning, but in life they don't?"They don't make songs when the good lose," I muttered. "They make war chants against the bad. So there won't be any songs for us.

If your opponent is better armed and has longer reach, then surprise is your only ally. And then you'd better hope he's half asleep.

It would have been funny if I had been an observer and not a participant, an idea that gave me a disconcerting insight into gossip. As I walked beside the silent Tamara, I realized that despite how entertaining certain stories were, at the bottom of every item of gossip there was someone getting hurt.

Are they trained to treat everyone as a servant?''Probably. That doesn't make you into one,

Maybe being so short has made me age slower, or something.

A wager?" I repeated."Yes," he said, and gave me a slow smile, bright with challenge. ..."Stake?" I asked cautiously. He was still smiling, an odd sort of smile, hard to define."A kiss." My first reaction was outrage, but then I remembered that I was on my way to Court, and that had to be the kind of thing they did at Court. And if I win I don't have to collect. I hesitated only a moment longer, lured by the thought of open sky, and speed, and winning."Done," I said.