Crown Duel Quotes:

Because you showed one face to all the rest of the world, and another to me.

- Sherwood Smith

topic: Faces, World, Crown Duel

A wager?" I repeated. "Yes," he said, and gave me a slow smile, bright with challenge. ... "Stake?" I asked cautiously. He was still smiling, an odd sort of smile, hard to define. "A kiss." My first reaction was outrage, but then I remembered that I was on my way to Court, and that had to be the kind of thing they did at Court. And if I win I don't have to collect. I hesitated only a moment longer, lured by the thought of open sky, and speed, and winning. "Done," I said.

- Sherwood Smith

topic: Kissing, Winning, Sky, Wagers, Crown Duel

They're safe,'' he said. "And you're not made of glass". He swept me up in his arms. I laughed. "And I'm not made of glass." He carried me into our room and kicked the door shut behind us.

- Sherwood Smith

topic: Doors, Glasses, Safe, Crown Duel

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 make them last.

- Sherwood Smith

topic: Laughter, Wish, Lasts, Crown Duel, Love And Laughter

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

topic: Self, Gloves, Stones, Crown Duel

Memory warps time, as it does the sights and sounds and smells of reality; for what shapes it is emotion, which can twist what seems clear, just as the surface of a pond seems to bend the stick thrust into the water.

- Sherwood Smith

source: Sherwood Smith (1997). “Crown Duel”, p.182, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Memories, Reality, Sight, Warp, Crown Duel

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

topic: Spring, Growth, Normal, Crown Duel, Seasons Change

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.

- Sherwood Smith

source: "Crown Duel". Book by Sherwood Smith, 1997.

topic: Hurt, Ideas, Gossip, Getting Hurt, Crown Duel