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41 " He told her not to speak or look at him. He told her not to try to kiss him. He told her she was beautiful. Then he lay her down and lay beside her and he said nothing more. "
― R. Lee Smith , Land of the Beautiful Dead
42 " Are you wondering yet why I’m telling you all this?” “Yes,” said Olivia. “Very much.” “It’s to tell you that fate is seldom found in the first place you look for it. "
― R. Lee Smith , Olivia
43 " Beginning the day in a bad mood made it awfully easy to find reasons to stay there. "
― R. Lee Smith , Cottonwood
44 " I wanted to help.""Shouldn't that count for something?""What, just wanting to?" She shook her head, leaning away from him. "I know people say that it's the thought that counts, but here in the real world, good intentions are about as useful as fairy wands and wishes. Nothing matters but what a person does.""I don't agree," he said simply. "
45 " This book is dedicated to my grandfather and to his habit of keeping books with such marvelously terrifying illustrations down on the bottom shelf where any little kid could read it. "
― R. Lee Smith , The Scholomance
46 " Forever. What do you know of forever?" He asked with undisguised contempt. "What do you know of death? "
47 " The sky was full of fog, with the sun behind it turning it all to a single color—not quite white, but pale and promising, like a blank page where anything could be written. Anything at all. "
48 " You can make a story mean anything, Meoraq. But that's the thing with you religious people, isn't it? God is this glorious intangibility, so no proof becomes proof just by how you spin it. "
― R. Lee Smith , The Last Hour of Gann
49 " Think, not of what you win or lose, but of what you learn and what you teach, and you will always have the advantage. "
50 " Hope is good to have,” Murgull said after a moment. “But hope does not lift a tree about to crush your mate, or bring meat to a starving belly. It warms a cold heart and it soothes a worried brain, but what use is that? "
51 " It is skin, Daria. Skin. It keeps the life in our bodies and it keeps the weather from getting in. It does not define us. It does not command us. It is only skin. "
― R. Lee Smith , Heat
52 " Fate is like a storm. You can let it bend you, or you can make it break you. One way or the other, the storm always has its way. Now our storm is beginning, Olivia. "
53 " I'm not enjoying this-""Lies! You'd fuck this moment if you could! "
54 " In the tee-vee programs, males who saved the lives of females were frequently rewarded with adoration and affection. The tee-vee misrepresented many things. "
55 " You’re alive, Lan,” he said. “You’re not ‘his’ anything. "
56 " Is that sex talk?" she asked uncertainly."It is.""Why don't you just say sex then? It's always chalice and appetite and artifice with you. I never know what the hell you're saying. "
57 " Crying was a pointless little-girl thing to do and it hadn’t fixed one goddamn thing since it had been invented by the very first pointless little girl. Problems only got solved when you did something about them. "
58 " It was just boring, is all. I knew better than to think there was going to be booze after all this time, but still, only thing worse than being sober in a pub is being sober in ten of them. "
59 " Do you speak any human?""Panyol." He was quite fluent with that one. "Some N'Glish. "
60 " I will say that you were Olivia, that you were your own self throughout. That you were courageous and you were good. And…And being good can be so much harder that just being brave. Let them love you for your courage. I love your goodness best. "