57 Quotes by S. D. Smith

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    Because you loved me. Before I was anything. Before I was at all lovable, you loved me. I won’t forget.

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    We may find pleasure in our duty, but our duty is not our own pleasure.

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    Growing up is terribly wonderful. But often it’s also wonderfully terrible. Ha, a riddle of words amounting to nothing. A stuttering cleverism that falls as short as my feeble steps. But this is true. A teacher could become rich if he ever perfected the art of helping mature students unlearn many awful things. Enjoy your innocence, my dear. Even if it only lasts the day.

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    Heather began to smile, even as tears stood out in her eyes. It was an old, familiar song. “But, it will not be so in the Mended Wood, We’ll be free and glad again. It will not be so in the Mended Wood, When the heir of Jupiter reigns. When the heir of Jupiter reigns!” Heather knew the song, yes. But she knew more than that. She knew exactly who was singing. Her heart flooded with a sudden, surging hope. The End.

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

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    Do you even know how to use one?′ he asked. “The sharp part at the bad guys?′ ‘That’s the general idea.

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    Growing up is terribly wonderful. But often it’s also wonderfully terrible.

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    And the Great Wood did mend; brighter and brighter it shine, with more and more light to share. Mending begat mending, and the healing grew, like a disease in reverse, until the wholeness spread to the edge of every map.

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