Sherwood Smith Quotes

War is a convenient fix for government problems if it happens somewhere else. To other people.

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.

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.

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.

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

If more people recognized the difference between friendship and mere attraction, and how love must partake of both to prosper, I expect there'd be more happy people.

Are they trained to treat everyone as a servant?

It is a shame when we must regard a people as an enemy. It is a shame and a regret when the two peoples share so much. And it is a shame, a regret, and a tragedy when those peoples meet as individuals and find much to admire.

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.

It desolates me to disappoint you, but your brother is not here. Despite two really praiseworthy attempts at rescue.

Probably. That doesn't make you into one.

Nothing is "always," my dear. Except the greater truths, one of which is that power begets politics, and politics are more dangerous than war because there are fewer rules.

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

When in doubt, be ridiculous.

I realized that despite how entertaining certain stories were, at the bottom of every item of gossip there was someone getting hurt.