Racquel Smith Quotes & Sayings

I settled on the floor and whispered to Sam, "I want you to listen to me, if you can." I leaned the side of my face against his ruff and remembered the golden wood he had shown me so long ago. I remembered the way the yellow leaves, the color of Sam's eyes, fluttered and twisted, crashing butterflies, on their way to the ground. The slender white trunks of the birches, creamy and smooth as human skin. I remembered Sam standing in the middle of the wood, his arms stretched out, a dark, solid form in the dream of the trees. His coming to me, me punching his chest, the soft kiss. I remembered every kiss we'd ever had, and I remembered every time I'd curled in his human arms. I remembered the soft warmth of his breath on the back of my neck while we slept.
I remembered Sam. — Maggie Stiefvater

From the ground. They waded waist-deep in the grass, in a compact body, bearing an improvised stretcher in their midst. Instantly, in the emptiness of the landscape, a cry arose whose shrillness pierced the still air like a sharp arrow — Joseph Conrad

Vegetables are called 'specialty crops.' Don't ask me why. — Chellie Pingree

I grew up in Chicago, so I've always been a Bears fan. — Kyle Chandler

Facts can obscure the truth. — Maya Angelou

All men have their appointed time; that's something no horse can change. — Liu Bei

Unbelief squashes; faith teaches. Faith takes a boy aside, and tells him that this part of what he did was good, while that other part of what he did got in the way. And this is how to do it better next time. — Douglas Wilson

For not many men, the proverb saith, can love a friend whom fortune prospereth unenvying. — Aeschylus

Japanese would never 'restore' an antique. The signs of age and wear are to them its most beautiful qualities. — Tom Hoover

And yet deep down there is satisfaction, too, for Gruad, long tortured by unreasonable guilt, now has something he can really feel guilty about. — Robert Shea