Shinn Quotes & Sayings

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

The Chinese say that water is the most powerful element, because it is perfectly nonresistant. It can wear away a rock, and sweep all before it. — Florence Scovel Shinn

Man's freedom comes through fulfilling his destiny, bringing into manifestation the Divine Design of his life. — Florence Scovel Shinn

The only person to change, is yourself. As you change, all the conditions around you will change! People will change! When you are undisturbed by a situation it falls away of its own weight. — Florence Scovel Shinn

Infinite Spirit, open the way — Florence Scovel Shinn

You must form the habit of living in the fourth dimension, "The World of the Wondrous." It is the world where you do not judge by appearances. — Florence Scovel Shinn

My love for you is elemental and immutable, and it will sustain me until I die. — Sharon Shinn

Intuition means, intuition, or to be taught from within. It is man's unerring guide, — Florence Scovel Shinn

I am not like other women. I do not like the things they like or feel the things they feel. And it is better so. I do not want to be like them. I do not want to turn into one of them. — Sharon Shinn

YOUR WORD IS YOUR WAND. THE WORDS YOU SPEAK CREATE YOUR OWN DESTINY — Florence Scovel Shinn

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

I thought it would not hurt to remind you that love is a powerful force in this world, invisible though it seems. — Sharon Shinn

She was not who she wanted to be. And not only did she not know how to make herself over into someone else, she wasn't even sure who she wanted to become. — Sharon Shinn

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. — Sharon Shinn

You can hardly walk up to complete strangers and say, "Good for you! You've risked banishment and brutality and ostracism just to be together, and I applaud your choice! You're in the vanguard of social change, and even though it's hard on you, the generations that come after you will have an easier time of it because you were brave enough to fall in love." So instead I told them I liked their baby. It means the same thing, but it's more socially acceptable. — Sharon Shinn

Is love the ultimate illusion? Or is it what it seems to be
the greatest transformation of all? (Glyrenden) — Sharon Shinn

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. — Sharon Shinn

And how is your head? Better?" he asked.
"Very much. Sometimes it hurts." Right now it was throbbing. "But every day I am much improved."
"Where did you hit it? Are you bruised?"
I put a hand to the back of my head, a little to the left, where I had landed with such jarring force. "Here," I said. "It's still a little tender."
And leaning forward, he touched my hair right where I had just laid my hand. Such was he glamour that attended him that I expected the ache to instantly melt away, healed by his royal caress. But in fact, I felt a sudden leap in my heart that made the pain briefly more intense. — Sharon Shinn

You must invest out of passion! You must invest out of desire! The same way you invent. The same way you fall in love! If you are too careful, you end up with something timid and unimportant. Something you don't mind losing. And when was that ever something you wanted to fight for? — Sharon Shinn

He is so kind that he makes me search my soul to find new ways to be compassionate to others. — Sharon Shinn

For people who make up stories for a living, that is the ultimate success: knowing that, when the book closes, when the series ends, the adventure is not over. It goes on without the creator, in the minds of the people who love it. You can't stop the signal. Once it's broadcast, it continues on forever, pulsing past star clusters, lighting up new worlds, collecting new fans, till the end of time itself. — Sharon Shinn

Now his grin lit his face with a sunny halo. — Sharon Shinn

If you do not run your subconscious mind yourself, someone else will run it for you. — Florence Scovel Shinn

Knows a higher law. One cannot turn back, and must put away graven images. — Florence Scovel Shinn

There are no lost opportunities in Divine Mind, as one door shuts another door is opened. — Florence Scovel Shinn

Would you not marry even for love?'
'Love does not seem to bring anyone much happiness as far as I have observed. So I think the lesson learned is never to love.'
'The lesson is to love wisely,' he replied. — Sharon Shinn

Fear and impatience demagnetize. Poise magnetizes. — Florence Scovel Shinn

It is man's only enemy - fear of lack, fear of failure, fear of sickness, fear of loss and a feeling of insecurity on some plane. Jesus Christ said: "Why are ye fearful, oh ye of little faith?" (Mat. 8:26) So we can see we — Florence Scovel Shinn

I do not limit God by seeing limitation in myself. With God and myself all things are possible. — Florence Scovel Shinn

Without an understanding of what a thing really is, it cannot be either uncovered or changed. (Aubrey) — Sharon Shinn

Every thought, every word is impressed upon it and carried out in amazing detail. It is like a singer making a record on the sensitive disc of the phonographic plate. Every note and tone of the singer's voice is registered. If he coughs or hesitates, it is registered also. So let us break all the old bad records in the subconscious mind, the records of our lives which we do not wish to keep, and make new and beautiful ones. Speak — Florence Scovel Shinn

So long as man resists a situation, he will have it with him. — Florence Scovel Shinn

Man must prepare for the thing he has asked for, when there isn't the slightest sign of it in sight. — Florence Scovel Shinn

The first start toward success is to be glad you are yourself. — Florence Scovel Shinn

That one with God is a majority. — Florence Scovel Shinn

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. — Sharon Shinn

People think by running away from a negative situation, they will be rid of it, but the same situation confronts them wherever they go. They will meet the same experiences until they have learned their lessons. — Florence Scovel Shinn

Anger without power is folly. — Florence Scovel Shinn

For the world slows and the stars falter, and all that remains is you ... — Sharon Shinn

We prove God by showing active faith, which puts to flight all adverse appearances — Florence Scovel Shinn

The promises of the future cannot undo the harm of the past. — Sharon Shinn

Never do today what intuition says to do tomorrow. — Florence Scovel Shinn

The perfect plan includes health, wealth, love and perfect selfexpression. This is the square of life, which brings perfect happiness. — Florence Scovel Shinn

Rejection is protection. — Florence Scovell Shinn

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. — Sharon Shinn

The Bible is a book dealing with the science of the mind. — Florence Scovel Shinn

Spiritual development means the ability to stand still, or stand aside, and let Infinite Intelligence lift your burdens and fight your battles. — Florence Scovel Shinn

What is really yours? The blessings you bring to yourself, through your spoken or silent word, the things you see with your inner eye. — Florence Scovel Shinn

This means, agree that the adverse situation is good, be undisturbed by it, and it falls away of its own weight. "None of these things move me," is a wonderful affirmation. The — Florence Scovel Shinn

Every person is a golden link in the chain of my good. — Florence Scovel Shinn

The robbers of time are the past and the future. Man should bless the past, and forget it, if it keeps him in bondage, and bless the future, knowing it has in store for him endless joys, but live fully in the now. — Florence Scovel Shinn

Although some people think that life is a battle, it is actually a game of giving and receiving. — Florence Scovel Shinn

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

I don't believe she'll be available for the rest of the day," Gabriel said.
"No? Is she in Velora, perhaps? I could go to the school and meet with her there."
"No, she's not in Velora."
Raphael's voice took on a note of concern. "Is she ill, then? I hope not. Is it a fever?"
"No, not a fever - I mean, she's not ill at all. She's just unavailable."
"Raphael's face took on a quizzical expression. "She has not been locked in her room, has she? Really, Gabriel - — Sharon Shinn

Elisandra read while I tried my hand at embroidering a pillowcase that she lent me. The results were execrable. I had no skill with a needle, and no desire to learn, either.
'I wouldn't shame a dog by laying this upon his bed,' I remarked, showing Elisandra my efforts. She actually smiled.
'I like it,' she said. 'I'll put it on one of my pillows.'
'Bryan won't let you sleep in the same bed with him if you bring this as your dowry,' I said with an attempt at humor.
She bent her head back over her book. 'Then stitch me another. — Sharon Shinn

No such thing as too tall," she said. She had automatically reached for a brush and now she began uncoiling the tangles of my hair. "It's good for a woman to be able to look into a man's eyes. Then she's not afraid to tell him what she thinks. — Sharon Shinn

Manufactured
synthetic
even virtual, if that is what you turned out to be
I would love you. — Sharon Shinn

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

Today is a day of completion; I give thanks for this perfect day, miracle shall follow miracle and wonders shall never cease. — Florence Scovel Shinn

You may think that all your happiness depends upon obtaining one particular thing in life; later on, you praise the Lord that you didn't get it. — Florence Scovel Shinn

The subconscious mind has no sense of humor and people often joke themselves into unhappy experiences. — Florence Scovel Shinn

If one is willing to do a thing he is afraid to do, he does not have to ... face a situation fearlessly, and if there is no situation to face; it falls away of its own weight. — Florence Scovel Shinn

Giving opens the way for receiving. — Florence Scovel Shinn

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

I will restore to you the years the locusts have eaten. — Florence Scovel Shinn

Isaiah said, "My word shall not return unto me void, but shall accomplish that where it is sent. — Florence Scovel Shinn

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. — Sharon Shinn

A truth that no one knows is still the truth. — Sharon Shinn

The superconscious mind is the God Mind within each man, and is the realm of perfect ideas. — Florence Scovel Shinn

You must welcome bounty whenever it comes, hunti man. It is often inconvenient. But if you insist on accepting it only when it suits your schedule, you will find yourself very poor. — Sharon Shinn

You almost threw it back!' she repeated, and her voice filled with mock horror.
'You foolish boy! Are you always so careless with items of value?'
'No,' he said, abruptly sober. 'I know what matters. And I never throw those things away. I hold on to them as long as I can. — Sharon Shinn

Man can only receive what he sees himself receiving. — Florence Scovel Shinn

I look with wonder at that which is before me. — Florence Scovel Shinn

People little dream of how their affairs react on the body. There is a mental correspondence for every disease. — Florence Scovel Shinn

Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement. — Florence Scovel Shinn

You're just afraid," I flung at him. "Of what would happen to you and your life at court if you were to carry Elisandra away. Of what your father would say. Of what Bryan would do to you."
Now he, too, looked angry. "I am afraid of many things, but those are not the fears that keep me from action," he said.
I turned my back on him. "Then I don't understand you," I said.
I heard the door open. "No," he said, "and you never have. — Sharon Shinn

Family tends to be one of the recurring themes in my fiction. — Sharon Shinn

Giving opens the way for receiving. In order to create activity in finances, one should give. — Florence Scovel Shinn

How did they find out?" Donnal inquired. "Did you set them on fire?"
"You know, it's so rare that I actually do that, and yet that's always the first question anyone asks me." -Senneth — Sharon Shinn

Unforgiveness is the most prolific cause of disease. It will harden arteries or liver, and affect the eye-sight. In its train are endless ills. — Florence Scovel Shinn

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. — Sharon Shinn

We must stop planning, plotting and scheming, and let Infinite Intelligence solve the problem in its own way. — Florence Scovel Shinn

it was as if that long-healed wound was raw again; all the complex memories crowded once more to the forefront of her mind. An old despair should not feel so new, but a new despair could haul an old one out of hiding. — Sharon Shinn

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

Now is the appointed time. Today is the day of my amazing good fortune. — Florence Scovel Shinn

It would not be necessary to make an affirmation more than once if one had perfect faith. — Florence Scovel Shinn

Behold, I make all things new. — Florence Scovel Shinn

I'm fascinated by the idea of disparate, difficult people learning to trust each other when they're thrust into hellish circumstances. — Sharon Shinn

You're wasting your time, she wanted to tell them. I don't care about your cars or your properties or your bags of gold. What have you done with your life? What are you going to do with it? That's all that matters. — Sharon Shinn

The kingdom of God and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you, and he said the Kingdom was within man. The Kingdom is the realm of right ideas, or the divine pattern. — Florence Scovel Shinn

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? — Sharon Shinn

Through his spoken word, man is continually making laws for himself. — Florence Scovel Shinn

Perfect self-expression will never be labor; but of such absorbing interest that it will seem almost like play. — Florence Scovel Shinn

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

Maybe I should keep you in a walled garden so you can't ever leave.'
The image this conjured up was so vivid that for a moment he couldn't think how to answer. He glanced down at her, his mouth open as if to speak, but no words came out. The truth was, he thought, feeling humble, feeling stupid, he didn't think he would mind any more than the raelynx did being kept in perpetual service to the princess. 'Men generally don't make very good pets,' he said at last, and she went off in a peal of laughter. — Sharon Shinn

Divine Mind (man's own superconscious mind) — Florence Scovel Shinn

It is better to bow to the dictates of the wind than to try to chase or chain it. — Sharon Shinn

And worry are twins and are the same thing. If — Florence Scovel Shinn

Man can change his conditions by changing his words. — Florence Scovel Shinn

Man's only enemies are within himself. — Florence Scovel Shinn