Quotes from Deborah Smith

The LORD detests lying lips, but he delights in men who are truthful. PROVERBS 12:22

True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen. -Francois de La Rochfoucauld

Every time a hillbilly hears his cell phone ring, an angel gets a beer.

I'm not happy, I'm cheerful. There's a difference. A happy woman has no cares at all. A cheerful woman has cares but has learned how to deal with them.

The simple, unvarnished truth was that Aunt Claree could suck down more alcohol between breakfast and lunch than any three church deacons on a weekend bender.

So much of what we are is water. We change with the tides, we struggle in our own endless seas to transform ourselves into something or someone splendid.

To quote Cervantes, 'Dios que da la llaga, da la medicina,' meaning—" "God gives you the hurt, but also the fix for it.

The wounded die or build a shield of scar tissue. Life moves on.

Trying to rescue your parents from their worst devils is hard on kids, you know? Makes 'em either mean or saintly or both.

La vida no cuece a fuego lento simplemente porque tú bajes la llama.

The nature of unleavened childhood is so open to magic and so quiet.

There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better; we find comfort somewhere." —Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

The sun had already turned the blue-black asphalt into soft, bubbly patches and heat rose in waves that seemed to breathe.

Pride and respect are earned, not given by birth.

Because it was said that a man had to appreciate beauty in order to know what he is fighting to protect.

A photograph is a souvenir of life!

Life doesn't take itself seriously for long. Joy leaves an imprint even in the hardest sorrow.

What do you call love, then?" Someone I can't live without.

Wish it, believe it, and it will be so.

There's something very freeing about losing the anchors that have always defined you. Frightening, sad, but exhilarating in a poignant way, as well. You're free to float to the moon and evaporate or sink to the bottom of the deepest ocean. But you're free to explore. Some people confuse that with drifting, I suppose. I like to think of it as growing.

The hardest memories are the pieces of what might have been.

We are all bodies of water, guarding the mystery of our depths, but some of us have more to guard than others.

The best sex takes us somewhere. Somewhere warm and expansive, a paradise of lust and happiness. Sex is and can be and should be but only very rarely is an act of communion with something bigger than ourselves. Men fuck and women make love, people say, but we men make love when we fuck a woman we adore: it's the same thing to us. We mean it sincerely. I had places inside me only Cathy could fill with her body, and I made her happy with my body more than I ever thought I could.

Happy people look young. You're really afraid of getting older, aren't you? You should only be afraid of getting less happy.