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61 " Intuition is nothing but long stripes of perception squeezed into small spaces. "
― R. Lee Smith , Heat
62 " then, life is in the journey. If you cannot have an easy journey, have an interesting story.” “That "
― R. Lee Smith , The Last Hour of Gann
63 " She’d become her own ghost, haunting her own life. "
― R. Lee Smith , The Roads of Taryn MacTavish (Lords of Arcadia, #3)
64 " She looked up into the sky, watching sparks falling up and winking out. It was oddly like looking into a deep pond, seeing pebbles fall away into the dark water. Up and down, sky and water…life and death…all the same.“It’s a nice night,” she said. "
― R. Lee Smith , Land of the Beautiful Dead
65 " One person against the world never wins.""And yet, you're here.""I'm not against the world, just you. Make the odds about even, as I see it. "
― R. Lee Smith
66 " No,” the stranger agreed. “It is yours. Each man builds his own House and it will always be haunted. "
67 " One person against the world never wins.""And yet, you're here.""I'm not against the world, just you. Makes the odds about even, as I see it. "
68 " will be difficult, but they will come away stronger, for even the unkindest truth strengthens a man more than the prettiest lie.” ‘Says "
69 " I should hate to see our own race judged by the darkest deeds of the worst men at the most evil hours of our history. "
― R. Lee Smith , Cottonwood
70 " but to sleep demands better, demands trust. "
― R. Lee Smith , The Army of Mab (Lords of Arcadia, #4)
71 " There is rightness in every hour, for it takes little more than a moment’s whim to lie with one in passion, but to sleep demands better, demands trust. "
72 " Hormones. The gift that just kept giving. "
73 " you cannot have an easy journey, have an interesting story. "
74 " But then, life is in the journey. If you cannot have an easy journey, have an interesting story. "
75 " I could think that was a good life, all because I wasn’t ready to see what else there was.” She rubbed her aching belly with the hand that did not hold the bottle. “Life doesn’t wait for you to be ready. "
76 " The human mind wasn’t fragile, but it was mortal, and once it broke, it was gone for good. "
77 " So tell me, oh unhappy human, what is ypur suffering to mine? "
78 " Sarah indulged in a few more of these bleak thoughts, but just the fact that she could indulge in them while lying in her memory-gel bed in the back of her two-bedroom house with her Konaluv waiting for her to come into the kitchen and ask it for some coffee made her feel even worse. And what good did that do? Whether or not she slept in a bed or drank coffee made no difference to the living conditions in Cottonwood, or any other camp, for that matter. Feeling bad didn't fix anything. "
79 " Is she mad?” Lan asked, thinking of the woman she’d seen alone at her table in the dining hall, her eerie stillness and piercing stare. “Oh, we’re all mad here.” Batuuli smiled, glancing over at her, then sighed and shook her head. “Wasted. You can’t even read, can you?” She said it like it was an accusation, like that was something just anyone should be able to do. “What does that matter?” Lan asked defensively. “Not a bit, to me. It’s Father who will become bored with you. "
80 " Discouragement and love, what else were big sisters for? "
