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

- Sherwood Smith

No, I don't think I could fall in love with him, handsome though he is, because I don't accept any of that huff he gives me about my great beauty and…

- Sherwood Smith

The only noise now was the rain, pattering softly with the magnificent indifference of nature for the tangled passions of humans.

- Sherwood Smith

When in doubt, be ridiculous.

- Sherwood Smith

Except. What is normal at any given time? We change just as the seasons change, and each spring brings new growth. So nothing is ever quite the same.

- Sherwood Smith

One doesn't lose a self, like a pair of gloves or a pine. We learn and change, or we harden into stone.

- Sherwood Smith

Despite how entertaining certain stories were, at the bottom of every item of gossip there was someone getting hurt.

- Sherwood Smith

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 diff…

- Sherwood Smith

So let me end with the wish that you find the same kind of happyiness, and laughter, and love, that I have found, and that you have the wisdon to mak…

- Sherwood Smith