A Land Remembered Quotes

“All I'm trying to tell you is to be strong. Don't ever let nothing get you down. Don't be afraid or ashamed to love, or to grieve when the thing you love is gone. Just don't let it throw you, no matter how much it hurts.”
― Patrick D. Smith, A Land Remembered

“You are trying to capture the fog, and no one can do that.”
― Patrick D. Smith, A Land Remembered

“Perhaps animals are smarter than men, he thought, taking only what they need to live today leaving something for tomorrow.”
― Patrick D. Smith, A Land Remembered

“Even the hated wolf kills only for food and only for immediate need. Maybe it is man who will eventually perish as he destroys the land and all that it offers, taking the animals down with him.”
― Patrick D. Smith, A Land Remembered

“said. “That breech loader has killed everthing but a train engine, and now it’s done that too.”
― Patrick D. Smith, A Land Remembered

“All you’re doing is feeling the pain of growing up,” Emma said gently. “I know it hurts. Everybody goes through it. There’s nothing like the torment of boys and girls discovering each other for the first time, trying to make a choice. But”
― Patrick D. Smith, A Land Remembered

“All I’m trying to tell you is to be strong. Don’t ever let nothing get you down. Don’t be afraid or ashamed to love, or to grieve when the thing you love is gone. Just don’t let it throw you, no matter how much it hurts. If you make it in this wilderness, you got to be strong. Do you understand me?”
― Patrick D. Smith, A Land Remembered

“This saddened Zech, and he pondered the why of it.”
― Patrick D. Smith, A Land Remembered

“It is not just swamp!” Toby responded harshly. “It is God you are killing. He put the land here for all creatures to enjoy, and you are destroying it. When you destroy the land you destroy God.”
― Patrick D. Smith, A Land Remembered

“You can go into Arcadia and get anybody you want killed for two shots of likker.”
― Patrick D. Smith, A Land Remembered

“Sure seems that way,” Zech said. “That breech loader has killed everthing but a train engine, and now it’s done that too.”
― Patrick D. Smith, A Land Remembered

“Is there ’gators in the river?” “Mister, there ain’t no water in Florida without ’gators, ’less you got a tub of it in your house. And one’s liable to get in there too if you leave the door open.”
― Patrick D. Smith, A Land Remembered

“Punta Rassa,” Emma repeated. “That’s a pretty name. Does it mean anything?” “It means twelve dollars a cow, and we got a hundred and forty-eight of them. I can’t even figure that high.”
― Patrick D. Smith, A Land Remembered

“* * * The next morning, just before dawn, Tobias went out to the shed to awaken the Indians to eat coon stew Emma had prepared for them. There was no one there. FOUR The wheels creaked loudly as the wagon moved slowly along the old Indian trail that was just wide enough for it to pass. Both sides of the trail were bordered thickly with scrub pine and hickory”
― Patrick D. Smith, A Land Remembered

“I’ll bet I’m the only eighty-five-year-old cracker left with all his own teeth.”
― Patrick D. Smith, A Land Remembered

“We’re breaking a Seminole rule already.”
― Patrick D. Smith, A Land Remembered

“they rode back she pressed against him, her face on his shoulder, her hands burning his chest like a branding iron.”
― Patrick D. Smith, A Land Remembered