"A truth that no one knows is still the truth."
— Sharon Shinn (Jenna Starborn)

"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 (Summers at Castle Auburn)

"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 (The Alleluia Files)

"'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 (Archangel)

"I was Amazement--I was Desire--I was Ecstasy and Rapture and the slightest bit of Greed."
— Sharon Shinn (Jenna Starborn)

"“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 (The Safe-Keeper's Secret)

"Yes, Jenna, I love you with all my heart. And with my atoms and molecules and electrons and whatever further breakdown you require. "
— Sharon Shinn (Jenna Starborn)

"We cannot go backward. We cannot erase time and events. Bit we can go forward, hand in hand, hope in our hearts and love lighting our way."
— Sharon Shinn (Jenna Starborn)

""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.""
— Sharon Shinn (Reader and Raelynx)

"If mankind's greatest achievement is to produce more spaces for mankind to live in, I do not think I am so impressed."
— Sharon Shinn (Jenna Starborn)

"Love is a popular romantic notion that leads to nothing but its own brand of misery."
— Sharon Shinn (Jenna Starborn)

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

"I am who I am, born that way, and will die that way."
— Sharon Shinn (Jenna Starborn)

"Manufactured--synthetic--even virtual, if that is what you turned out to be--I would love you."
— Sharon Shinn (Jenna Starborn)

""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.""
— 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 (Archangel)

"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 (Jenna Starborn)