Sharon Shinn
Sharon Shinn
Sharon Shinnis an American novelist who writes combining aspects of fantasy, science fiction and romance. She has published more than a dozen novels for adult and young adult readers. Her works include the Shifting Circles Series, the Samaria Series, the Twelve Houses Series, and a rewriting of Jane Eyre, Jenna Starborn. She works as a journalist in St. Louis, Missouri and is a graduate of Northwestern University...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
CountryUnited States of America
love-you synthetic ifs
Manufactured--synthetic--even virtual, if that is what you turned out to be--I would love you.
dream dust secret
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.
love-you heart choices
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.
eye long world
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?
stills knows
A truth that no one knows is still the truth.
wedding thinking doubt
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.
greed desire ecstasy
I was Amazement--I was Desire--I was Ecstasy and Rapture and the slightest bit of Greed.
love-you heart atoms
Yes, Jenna, I love you with all my heart. And with my atoms and molecules and electrons and whatever further breakdown you require.
my-love-for-you elementals dies
My love for you is elemental and immutable, and it will sustain me until I die.
who-i-am way born
I am who I am, born that way, and will die that way.
thinking space achievement
If mankind's greatest achievement is to produce more spaces for mankind to live in, I do not think I am so impressed.
lying heart sunshine
And you're not leaving," she said. "Promise me." It was as if she had asked him to promise to keep breathing, to notice sunshine, to permit the spinning of the earth. What choice did he have? Even if he left her, she would be camped in his heart, an insistent and willful presence. She would match her strides to his on any journey he ever took; she would lie beside him on any bed. Amalie, he said, "that's the easiest promise I've ever had to make.
ocean love-is sea
Love is like water from the ocean." Damiana said. "You cannot empty it dry. Take bucket after bucket of water out of the Cormeon Sea, and there is still more water left than you could ever use up. That's what love's like.
hurt powerful love-is
I thought it would not hurt to remind you that love is a powerful force in this world, invisible though it seems.