“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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“¿Adónde había ido su dulzura? Toda la belleza, toda la bondad, toda la delicadeza que conformaban aquella personita ..., ¿adónde habían ido? ¿Seguían todavía ahora corriendo bajo las brillantes estrellas como un tren que circulaba de noche por un campo nevado? Sin determinar su destino. Siguiendo un rumbo que no puede medirse con los patrones de este mundo. ¿O es posible que vuelva alguna vez? Sucede a veces que una mañana, de improviso, encuentras, en el sitio donde lo dejaste, algo que perdiste mucho tiempo atrás. Bonito, con idéntica forma a la que tenía. Y aún parece más nuevo que cuando lo perdiste. Como si alguien desconocido te lo hubiera estado guardando con amor. ¿Volvería, de la misma forma, su corazón a aquel lugar?.”
― Kyōichi Katayama, quote from Socrates In Love
“Every journey starts with the first step, and the first step down the Dark path is choosing self over sacrifice.”
― C.L. Wilson, quote from King of Sword and Sky
“The S.S.S. is a small and secret consortium consisting of the inmates of intellect, and existing solely for the purpose of keeping each other alive, for we all know that once we lose our wits we will begin to die.”
― Emilie Autumn, quote from The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls
“The bigger the darkness, the easier it is to spot your little light.”
― Brother Andrew, quote from God's Smuggler
“- But you have to reason it out then and convince yourself.
- Yes, but there are reasons of the heart that reason doesn't encompass.”
― Manuel Puig, quote from Kiss of the Spider Woman
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