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Category: Sherwood Smith

When I turned thirteen and took a typing class, with typical early teen enthusiasm and total lack of critical ability, I started sending my stuff to publishers once I’d babysat long enough to earn the postage.

Enthusiasm, Long, Early

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.

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.

battle, enemy, opponent, strategy, tactics, wisdom

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

comical, crown, enemy, funny, war, wise

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.

fight, life, morals, war

If everywhere you go everyone watches you, and wants you, can you truly be yourself?

beauty, princess-elestra

Act’. How many good people do you really know? I discount those who mouth out platitudes for the edification of the young, and who truly are ‘good’, whatever that means?”What a strange subject, and from such a strange person!”Everyone I know is a mixture, some with more good than bad, and it varies on different days,

bad, beauty, flauvic-acting, good, princess-elestra

What if feeling good only comes after you destroy someone you hate?”That’s not good, that’s triumph,

beauty, flauvic, princess-elestra, triumph

What’s it really like to always be the prettiest person in a room? Dos it mean you’re always acting as if in a play, because no one stops looking at you?”Life is a play, isn’t it?

acting, beauty, flauvic, life, princess-elestra

When people first discover beauty, they tend to linger. Even if they don’t at first recognize it for what it is.

beauty, inspirational, vidanric

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

beauty, humor, villian

When in doubt, be ridiculous.

beauty, decision, fast-thinking, uncertainty