On Agate Hill Quotes

“But I would do it all again, every bit of it, I would lose him again just to have him again for an hour, for a minute, for even a second. I would do it all again just to see his face.”
― Lee Smith, On Agate Hill

“Myself I love a thunderstorm better than anything. Sometimes I will run to the top of the hill to whirl around and around on my Indian Rock in the wind, it is like a dance I can not stop. The smell of the lightning goes into your nose and down your whole body. Old Bess says if you get hit by lightning yet live you will have special powers, well I could use some of those. So I don't care if I get hit or not.”
― Lee Smith, On Agate Hill

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

“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.”
― Lee Smith, On Agate Hill

“Oh I know what they say about us in town, and I say, the hell with them! I tell you, I don't give a damn. I have got to be an old woman in the twinkling of an eye, and it is sort of a relief, I can tell you. I do what I want to now. Last week I traded all our eggs for ice cream at Holden's Grocery. Now that I have shrunk down little as a child, I figure I might as well act like one. I don't care. I like ice cream. Juney does too. We like to put bourbon in it, and make ourselves a milkshake.”
― Lee Smith, On Agate Hill

“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.”
― Lee Smith, On Agate Hill

“To much has happened too fast Dear Diary. What I want is for nothing to happen at all.
I don't even want good things anymore. I just want nothing.”
― Lee Smith, On Agate Hill

“God may forgive you if He chooses, but not I. Au revoir.”
― Lee Smith, On Agate Hill

“Not how much, but how well, is our motto.”
― Lee Smith, On Agate Hill

“I want to be Tragedy, I want to be Juliet, I want to be Romeo. Thus with a kiss I die.”
― Lee Smith, On Agate Hill