Smokie Lee

“I make art, sometimes I make true art, and sometimes it fills the empty places in my life. Some of them. Not all.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

“Words save our lives, sometimes.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

“...to understand who a person really was, what his or her life really meant, the speaker for the dead would have to explain their self-story–what they meant to do, what they actually did, what they regretted, what they rejoiced in. That's the story that we never know, the story that we never can know–and yet, at the time of death, it's the only story truly worth telling.”
― Orson Scott Card, Speaker for the Dead

“The bones are hard and by themselves seem dead and stony, but by rooting into and pulling against the skeleton, the rest of the body carries out all the motions of life.”
― Orson Scott Card, Speaker for the Dead