Quotes by Lee Smith

“If Strength comes through Suffering, why then I should be the strongest of all women, yet I am the weakest. God help me. Help me.”

“Aisling tumbled out, his gold eyes going wild about the room to take in all of them. His beak clicked as he worked it in silence. Then, as the breaking of ice may bring a cascade of water from wint...”

“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.”

“God may forgive you if He chooses, but not I. Au revoir.”

“They say experience is the best teacher, but I'll be damned if I know what it teaches you.”

“And are we not all mere guests upon this whirling earth?”

“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.”

“Men may perish, but the world will neither celebrate nor mourn. It will go on.' His smile thinned. 'Would you like to know how?''No.''Animals will swell to fill the void left by men," he told her. ...”

“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...”

“...for they was never a young man yet who don't want to go out and right a wrong, or kill a man, or have to do something to earn his right to what is there for the taking, all along. Only he don't ...”

“I want to be Tragedy, I want to be Juliet, I want to be Romeo. Thus with a kiss I die.”

“Heyday, now that is a funny word ain't it? Part of a heyday is, you don't never know you are having yourself one till later when it's all over with, long gone.”

“People can act so nice, bringing you food and all, but in the end they are nothing but buzzards. Waiting to pick your bones.”

“People are so busy positioning themselves before the screen and talking on the damn cellphones, communicating, that we're not reading, and in fact we're not really communicating, either. We're not ...”

“My husband is pretty particular about his cars. In his opinion, the Mercedes are the best of the best.”

“And are we not all “mere guests” upon this whirling earth?”