“All I'm trying to tell you is to be strong. Don't ever let nothing get you down. Don't be afraid or ashamed to love, or to grieve when the thing you love is gone. Just don't let it throw you, no matter how much it hurts.”
― Patrick D. Smith, quote from A Land Remembered
“Perhaps animals are smarter than men, he thought, taking only what they need to live today leaving something for tomorrow.”
― Patrick D. Smith, quote from A Land Remembered
“said. “That breech loader has killed everthing but a train engine, and now it’s done that too.”
― Patrick D. Smith, quote from A Land Remembered
“they rode back she pressed against him, her face on his shoulder, her hands burning his chest like a branding iron.”
― Patrick D. Smith, quote from A Land Remembered
“We’re breaking a Seminole rule already.”
― Patrick D. Smith, quote from A Land Remembered
Patrick D. Smith
Born place: in D'Lo, Mississippi, The United States
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“WHEN WE GIVE FROM A PLACE OF LOVE, RATHER THAN FROM A PLACE OF EXPECTATION, MORE USUALLY COMES BACK TO US THAN WE COULD HAVE EVER IMAGINED.”
― Susan Jeffers, quote from Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway
“I loved his goatee even more than his mustache. It was so soft and white. I wanted to rub my face in it. I wanted to climb inside it and live there and peek out.”
― Jerry Spinelli, quote from Milkweed
“Things are not at all what they seem to be: oh no, not at all.”
― Kate DiCamillo, quote from The Magician's Elephant
“Somehow this literary genre, which most people condemned, acted as a sort of counterbalance to Charles's soul; it was the ballast that prevented him from lurching into the serious or melancholy, unlike Andrew, who had been unable to adopt his cousin's casual attitude to life, and to whom everything seemed so achingly profound, imbed with that absurd solemnity that the transience of of existence conferred upon even the smallest act.”
― Félix J. Palma, quote from The Map of Time
“I've learned that verbal abuse can be just as damaging as physical abuse and take longer to heal from.”
― Jaycee Dugard, quote from A Stolen Life
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