“It's one slice of shit-cake after another with me, isn't it? Why did you marry me?"
"God gave you to me."
"Did you keep the receipt?"
- Amber and Meoraq”
― R. Lee Smith, quote from The Last Hour of Gann
“Yet for all the aggravation of tending them, it was not so terrible an ordeal. He’d never kept a pet before and keeping close to fifty of them all at once in the wildlands was not how any man ought to begin, but he seemed to be having some success at it and he had to admit, he liked having someone to talk to, even if she couldn’t talk back.”
― R. Lee Smith, quote from The Last Hour of Gann
“I don’t know humans, but I know fools. And I know the surest way to encourage fools to follow a wicked man is to tell them not to.”
― R. Lee Smith, quote from The Last Hour of Gann
“If you cannot have an easy journey, have an interesting story.”
― R. Lee Smith, quote from The Last Hour of Gann
“Women are like handfuls of sand. They all rub up under your scales now and then, but the finest ones do put a polish on a man.”
― R. Lee Smith, quote from The Last Hour of Gann
“Meoraq swung around and raked his eyes over the whole of them. “Who dares order me to silence?” “I do,” said Amber. “Shut up.”
― R. Lee Smith, quote from The Last Hour of Gann
“Because you told me the truth, even when you thought it was something I did not want to hear. That is how I know how much you love me. I do not need to be told.”
― R. Lee Smith, quote from The Last Hour of Gann
“Father, forgive me," he thought, staring into the sky where the light of the sun stared back at him behind the clouds. "Truth does not care if it comforts her. But I do.”
― R. Lee Smith, quote from The Last Hour of Gann
“For now, his talk may be exciting, but it will pale with time. He will repeat himself and embellish on his lies, and doubts will grow. When we reach the temple and they see no reward for their wrong-placed faith, yes, it will be difficult, but they will come away stronger, for even the unkindest truth strengthens a man more than the prettiest lie.”
― R. Lee Smith, quote from The Last Hour of Gann
“The bad nights made the good ones impossible to enjoy; the good nights made the bad ones worse.”
― R. Lee Smith, quote from The Last Hour of Gann
“But once that question popped out there, it couldn’t be ignored. You couldn’t put toothpaste back in the tube; once you’d seen Waldo, you might as well throw the book away.”
― R. Lee Smith, quote from The Last Hour of Gann
“And the moral of this story is?” asked Amber, and immediately regretted it because it didn’t sound tough and bored at all, just snotty. “That everything looks small on paper,” Meoraq replied. “But in Gann’s world, shit happens.” The”
― R. Lee Smith, quote from The Last Hour of Gann
“It is a wife’s duty and pleasure to lessen her husband’s burdens.” “Says who, lizardman?” “Prophet Lashraq, as written in Sheul’s true Word.” “You mean a man wrote it.” “But”
― R. Lee Smith, quote from The Last Hour of Gann
“One for the Prophet, the wide open eye… Two for his brunt and the sign of the fist… Three for Uyane, the unclad sword… Four for Mykrm, the hammer of his law… Five for Oyan of the ash-stained leaf… Six for Thaliszar and the healing hand…”
― R. Lee Smith, quote from The Last Hour of Gann
“There is no night, however dark and filled with woe, that is not followed by dawn.”
― R. Lee Smith, quote from The Last Hour of Gann
“People make babies. People make the rules. And then people make up gods so they have someone else to blame when things don’t go right.” “No,”
― R. Lee Smith, quote from The Last Hour of Gann
“Did you mark that?"
"Most of it."
"Then I have your obedience."
"I didn't exactly plan to go anywhere this morning, " she told him testily. "But, I wasn't lost. I was just hunting. And I wasn't in trouble."
"Human, you are not yet out of trouble.”
― R. Lee Smith, quote from The Last Hour of Gann
“The world is filled with fools like S’kot, and worse, with the fools who let them act as wardens over them. They deserve each other. I don’t care what they think of me and neither should you.”
― R. Lee Smith, quote from The Last Hour of Gann
“Jesus Christ, really? How did you ever survive living with me as long as you did without having sex every other hour?” “With God’s aid alone,” he said seriously. “It was a terrible time.” “Just”
― R. Lee Smith, quote from The Last Hour of Gann
“will be difficult, but they will come away stronger, for even the unkindest truth strengthens a man more than the prettiest lie.” ‘Says”
― R. Lee Smith, quote from The Last Hour of Gann
“if you throw a man in a cage, he will spend the rest of his life fighting to escape. But if you tell him no one else in the world gets the cage but him, dress it up and throw in a few pillows, then he’ll walk in on his own.”
― R. Lee Smith, quote from The Last Hour of Gann
“you cannot have an easy journey, have an interesting story.”
― R. Lee Smith, quote from The Last Hour of Gann
“then, life is in the journey. If you cannot have an easy journey, have an interesting story.” “That”
― R. Lee Smith, quote from The Last Hour of Gann
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“Pretty women wonder where my secret lies.
I'm not cute or built to suit a fashion model's size
But when I start to tell them,
They think I'm telling lies.
I say,
It's in the reach of my arms
The span of my hips,
The stride of my step,
The curl of my lips.
I'm a woman
Phenomenally.
Phenomenal woman,
That's me.”
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“The church must constantly fight the tendency to make rules and policies more important than people, because when that happens we are no longer following Jesus.”
― Kyle Idleman, quote from Not a Fan: Becoming a Completely Committed Follower of Jesus
“What would I like to get away from? Complexity. Anxiety. A feeling I've had my whole life that at any given time there's something I'm forgetting, some detail or chore, something that I'm supposed to be doing or should have already done. That nagging sensation - I get up with it, I go through the day with it, I go to sleep with it. When I was a kid, I had a habit of coming home from school on Friday afternoons and immediately doing my homework. So I'd wake up on Saturday morning with this wonderful sensation, a clean, open feeling of relief and possibility and calm. There'd be nothing I had to do. Those Saturday mornings, they were a taste of real freedom that I've hardly ever experienced as an adult. I never wake up in Elmsford with the feeling that I've done my homework.”
― Lionel Shriver, quote from So Much for That
“She had seen what it cost him and her heart quickened with compassion. For that alone, she might have loved him almost.”
― Cecilia Dart-Thornton, quote from The Battle of Evernight
“All right, Emma. You brought me in. You made your move. Just like I knew you would. A nice move. Now it's my turn.”
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