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Smoky Mountains Quotes

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Ed Lynskey
“I cadged a complimentary green matchbook with a gold bird icon from the Bell canning jar. Later we'd use the matches to light our spliffs. My fingertips tapped the stem to the gizmo that dinged a bell. Nobody came out. Wrong signal, so I did two bell rings. No response prompted me to tap out a series of bell rings.”
Ed Lynskey, Lake Charles

“We were going home. The mountains might seem hostile to some people, but they were a shelter and a blessing for me. I lived in their shadows. As they have strength to my ancestors long ago, they gave strength to me now.”
Florence Cope Bush, Dorie: Woman of the Mountains

Barbara O'Connor
“And then she got a bad, bad feeling because she realized she had been wrong.
You can fool a person.
You can fool a dog.
You can fool a cat or a horse or a teacher or a friend.
But you cannot ever fool a heart.”
Barbara O'Connor, Greetings from Nowhere

Foster Kinn
“I have discovered biker paradise. It is called the Great Smoky Mountains.”
Foster Kinn, Freedom's Rush II: More Tales from the Biker and the Beast