Sharon Cameron Quotes & Sayings

But who can find the truth in Canaan? Janis doesn't tell it, the Learning Room doesn't teach it. My father has twisted it, Mother half forgotten it, and the Forgetting is the thief that steals it. — Sharon Cameron

I have lived my life so frightened of pain it's been paralyzing. I hate pain, but I hate fear more, and I've eaten fear every day of my life because of the Forgetting. — Sharon Cameron

Warm sun and robin's-egg skies were inappropriate conditions for sending one's uncle to a lunatic asylum. — Sharon Cameron

She was clever, and beautiful, and hard as burnished bronze. — Sharon Cameron

Sometimes it is best to keep one's advantages close. — Sharon Cameron

I put on embarrassment in the same way I put on Liliya's dress. It clings to my skin. — Sharon Cameron

Sometimes legends can be true. — Sharon Cameron

Knowing the truth makes me alone. I wrote that once, but I think I was wrong. Fear of pain is what has made me alone. But today I realized that pain and love have a balance. I can feel so much of one only because I feel so much of the other. — Sharon Cameron

Your maman was in my room last night."

"And I was not." His tone was glum. — Sharon Cameron

What if the Ancients used the number of ticks to mark the time of day, instead of the height of the sun or moon? so highmoon could happen here.." "That way highmoon is not the time; highmoon is happening at the different time every night. If you're counting the ticks as time. — Sharon Cameron

Daughter stealer. — Sharon Cameron

The people are in need of a dose of terror. They must feel that they have no choice, can effect no change, or we will have more change than we currently know how to handle.: — Sharon Cameron

Because I dared. — Sharon Cameron

The past is never really gone. It only lies in wait for you, remembered or forgotten. — Sharon Cameron

I knew full well that Lane considered himself more family than servant to my uncle, and that my uncle felt the same; the only real question was who considered himself the father and who the child. — Sharon Cameron

Should she pretend to like it, when she really did, all while pretending that she didn't? — Sharon Cameron

Her grief for both of them was flavored with guilt the way salt flavors the sea; she could taste it in the tears. — Sharon Cameron

Handsome young men should not act as if they know it. — Sharon Cameron

...did not choose to print the Wesson's Guide. Because a printing press was a manchine, and machines were technology, and because technology clouded minds, weakened the will, and took away the self-reliance of the Ancients--or so their Parliament said--such dangerous items could be used only by a special license. — Sharon Cameron

You are the variable in every equation, Mademoiselle. — Sharon Cameron

So you carry needle and thread about in your pockets, do you?" Sophia asked.

"My tailor insists. — Sharon Cameron

It's my choice today that is the memory of tomorrow. It's my choice that determines what I will become. Not the memories of the past. — Sharon Cameron

Surely there was not another soul in England that could delude themselves like I could. — Sharon Cameron

I said, 'tart'!" she snapped.
Lane's brows went up, but I merely continued to smile, choosing to assume that her answer was a reference to where the berries should go, and not to my person. — Sharon Cameron

He thought she was someone who could break the pattern of history. And he was offering to break it with her. — Sharon Cameron

She was going to walk into the Sunken City and empty every stinking hole in the Tombs. Let LeBlanc's Goddess explain that to the mob. — Sharon Cameron

The heavy blade hung high above the prisoners, glinting against the stars, and then the Razor came down, a wedge of falling darkness cutting through the torchlight. One solid thump, and four more heads had been shaved from their bodies. — Sharon Cameron

You are the single most beautiful thing I have ever looked at in my life. — Sharon Cameron

She was the clock, a clock that had lost its key, unwinding in the dark. — Sharon Cameron

It was because this stark world LeBlanc was trying to create was a lie; there was spectrum of color between black and white, and many, many layers of choice between yes and no. — Sharon Cameron

I am made of my memories. — Sharon Cameron

Truth can look so flimsy and feeble sometimes. It's one of the things I hold against it. — Sharon Cameron

We are supposed to write the truth, for no one to see but ourselves. But how easily that truth can be twisted. Bend a little here, omit a little there, make yourself into the person you wish you were instead of the person you are. How easy to cut the truth away, to throw it in a fire, open your eyes, and have the whole world remember nothing of who you are. Nothing of what you've done. When you will not remember who you are or what you've done. — Sharon Cameron