S.D. Smith Quotes & Sayings

He longed for a world where safe places for the weak and vulnerable were common, but that was not this world. Not right now. — S.D. Smith

Growing up is terribly wonderful. But often it's also wonderfully terrible. — S.D. Smith

Don't stop hating it. It's a useful fuel for hard work. — S.D. Smith

I love a happy ending... because I need hope. — S.D. Smith

It's better to live as you will want to have lived, rather than spend your time worrying about the end. You are right here in your story. Don't skip ahead — S.D. Smith

She was seeing the other side of the tragedy, the world that lived, for now, only in the hopeful hearts of those who, though not seeing, saw. — S.D. Smith

I know this is a hard blow... But stay on the job, son. Do the next right thing. — S.D. Smith

He believed he had always tried to achieve peace and was sad that he so often had to find it at the end of his sword. "So — S.D. Smith

You can choose what you believe, Shuffler, but you can't change what's true. — S.D. Smith

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But there's another kind of mending that must be done. This place is full of farmers, artists, carpenters, midwives, cooks, poets, healers, singers, smiths, weavers -- Workers of all kinds. We're all doing our part. . . Some must bear arms and that is their calling. But this, she motioned back to the mountain behind her, "this is a place dedicated to the reasons why some must fight. Here we anticipate the Mended Wood, the Great Wood healed. Those painters are seeing what is not yet but we hope will be. They are really seeing, but it is a different kind of sight. — S.D. Smith

I am afraid... But I keep on loving what's on the other side of this fight, and that will have to make me brave. — S.D. Smith

The Green Ember burns; the seed of the New World smolders. Healing is on the horizon, but a fire comes first. Bear the flame. — S.D. Smith

All of life is a battle against fear. We fight it on one front, and it sneaks around to our flank." He paused, looked kindly at her. "Yes, Father. I understand." "I regret many things I've done," he said, "but most of all I regret those moments when I said to Fear, 'You are my master. — S.D. Smith

It is, she considered gravely, a terribly dangerous world. She supposed it always had been, but she was only now really experiencing it. — S.D. Smith

Chapter Nineteen — S.D. Smith

The sunlight sparkled through the wind-bent boughs of trees, dancing in an ever-shifting pattern — S.D. Smith

He hobbled on, hoping they were close to escaping. But escaping to where? — S.D. Smith

Being a ruler is, contrary to popular notions, a calling of self-sacrifice. That is, if one wants to be a good ruler. — S.D. Smith

Somehow this garden put her at ease and helped her be patient for the unraveling of the story she was somehow a part of, even if only in a small way. They — S.D. Smith

What is it, Father?" Picket asked as Mother tenderly took Jacks from him. "It's only that, when you're older, you hand out wisdom to your children like you know everything, but it is sometimes hard to follow your own advice. — S.D. Smith

This is a place where people make and are made. You are what you do. Choose wisely, young Picket. Choose wisely, brave Heather. Understand? — S.D. Smith