“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
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“It happens like this.
"One day you meet someone and for some inexplicable reason, you feel more connected to this stranger than anyone else--closer to them than your closest family. Perhaps this person carries within them an angel--one sent to you for some higher purpose; to teach you an important lesson or to keep you safe during a perilous time. What you must do is trust in them--even if they come hand in hand with pain or suffering--the reason for their presence will become clear in due time."
Though here is a word of warning--you may grow to love this person but remember they are not yours to keep. Their purpose isn't to save you but to show you how to save yourself. And once this is fulfilled; the halo lifts and the angel leaves their body as the person exits your life. They will be a stranger to you once more.
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It's so dark right now, I can't see any light around me.
That's because the light is coming from you. You can't see it but everyone else can.”
― Lang Leav, quote from Love & Misadventure
“Newt had said I loved Ivy more than the church. I wasn’t going to deny it, but there were all kinds of love, and how shallow would I be if my anchor to reality was a hunk of real estate? It was the people who were there that made it mean something.”
― Kim Harrison, quote from The Outlaw Demon Wails
“Lying next to Eliza, I had the feeling I had I'd just found something I didn't even know I'd lost.”
― Tiffanie DeBartolo, quote from How to Kill a Rock Star
“If my heart grows any fonder, it's going to hop out of my chest and into yours.”
― Olivia Cunning, quote from Backstage Pass
“They're afraid of change, and we must change. They're afraid of the young, and we are the young. They're afraid of music, and music is our life. They're afraid of books, and knowledge, and ideas. They're most afraid of our magic.”
― James Patterson, quote from Witch & Wizard
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