Rachel R. Smith > Quotes

“New blossoms will always grow, even after the coldest winter.”
― Rachel R. Smith, Reflection: The Stranger in the Mirror

“An act of kindness from a stranger can lift you up, while a word spoken to you in anger can linger and weigh you down. Whether you know it or not, you leave pieces of yourself in everything you touch, every place you go.”
― Rachel R. Smith, Reflection: Thorn of the White Rose

“What is a book for if not to be read?”
― Rachel R. Smith, Reflection: The Stranger in the Mirror

“His mother warned me that I'd need to take up the rolling pin if I married him. I thought she meant so that I could share his passion as a baker, but I've since come to learn otherwise.”
― Rachel R. Smith, Reflection: The Stranger in the Mirror

“The spring flowers have been particularly beautiful this year. I think they become more so with every passing year. Their memory is a comforting promise in the gray winter and a reason not to mourn the falling leaves during the harvest. New blossoms will always grow, even after the coldest winter.”
― Rachel R. Smith, Reflection: The Stranger in the Mirror

“You and Father are far too trusting!” Charis said, but the vehemence of her protest was dulled by the visible twitch at the corner of her lips. “And you are far too suspicious. Fortunately, as long as we have each other it will balance out,” Nerissa said with a contagious grin.”
― Rachel R. Smith, Reflection: The Stranger in the Mirror

“An act of kindness from a stranger can lift you up, while a word spoken to you in anger can linger and weigh you down.”
― Rachel R. Smith, Reflection: Thorn of the White Rose

“Death is nothing to fear. This world is neither the beginning nor the ending.”
― Rachel R. Smith, Reflection: The Stranger in the Mirror

“she had lost her parents, her possessions, and even her identity in the attack, her spirit had survived—”
― Rachel R. Smith, Reflection: Dragon's Bane

“If you know my real name, what is the point of a disguise?”
― Rachel R. Smith, Reflection: Thorn of the White Rose

“Nerissa was floating in a dream, a place outside of time, on the horizon of life and death, where fantasy and reality blended together. It was a place of limitless possibility which could only be reached when the body rests and the mind's eye opens, freed from the restrictions of thought and reason.”
― Rachel R. Smith, Reflection: The Stranger in the Mirror

“She looked over her shoulder as she walked out the door. “One day you're going to break my back with this bibliophilic addiction of yours!” Her parting words and laughter echoed through the hallway.”
― Rachel R. Smith, Reflection: The Stranger in the Mirror