R. Lee Smith Quotes & Sayings

I had but one love and it is gone and now there is nothing and I tell you, that is the most awful feeling in the world. — R. Lee Smith

Under no circumstances are you to butter your entire roll and, my God!" she cried suddenly, switching Lan's hand three times in rapid succession. "Never lick your knife!" "Ouch! Fine! Buggering fuck! Leave off with that beshitted thing!" The dead woman let out a sound like the chirping of a bird, staring at her with an indignation that was nearly horror. "Ladies," she sputtered at last. "Ladies do not say bugger or fuck!" "But beshitted's all right?" Lan asked cautiously. "No, it is not!" "You know, I may not be as mannered-up as you are, but in Norwood, it's rude to yell at the table. — R. Lee Smith

Strange, how the world could move on even when it had been shaken to its foundations. — R. Lee Smith

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

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

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

Well? Sanford prompted. She looked at him.

"Well what?"

"What was the point? Why did you do this?"

She stared at him in obvious confusion. "I wanted to help."

"Shouldn't that count for something? — R. Lee Smith

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

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

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

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

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

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

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. — R. Lee Smith

You can make a story mean anything Meoraq. But that's the think 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

If you cannot have an easy journey, have an interesting story. — R. Lee Smith

You're alive, Lan," he said. "You're not 'his' anything. — R. Lee Smith

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

In the end, she realized that anytime you weren't fucking for fun, regardless of what you told yourself, honey, it was hooking. — R. Lee Smith

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

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

What do you think of me? — R. Lee Smith

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

The bad nights made the good ones impossible to enjoy; the good nights made the bad ones worse. — R. Lee Smith

There is no night, however dark and filled with woe, that is not followed by dawn. — R. Lee Smith

Don't make fun of me," Lan snapped. "I'm illiterate, not stupid! I know there's no B in subtle! — R. Lee Smith

There were no words, no capacity to form them, but there were thoughts swelling huge in her head and he was in every one of them, even deeper than he was in her body, because he didn't want to lose here.
He didn't want to lose her.
And maybe, that death-dark voice whispered to her aching heart, maybe he should. — R. Lee Smith

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

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? — R. Lee Smith

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

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