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Douglas Smith
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“the first ingredient is a group of suspects—the characters that may, or may not, have been responsible for the killing.
“To die would be an awfully big adventure. But it’s not true. Life is the real adventure. Having the hurricane inside you is the true adventure. And then I think not of Cate Blanchett as Queen Elizabeth I, but of Mel Gibson as William Wallace. Everyone dies. Not everyone really lives.”
― Lily and the Octopus
― Lily and the Octopus
“Yours is by far the harder lot, but mine is happening to me.”
― Lily and the Octopus
― Lily and the Octopus
“A heart is judged not by how much you love, but by how much you are loved by others.”
― Lily and the Octopus
― Lily and the Octopus
“Most of all, I am thankful for Lily, who, since she entered my life, has taught me everything I know about patience and kindness and meeting adversity with quiet dignity and grace. No one makes me laugh harder, or want to hug them tighter. You have truly lived up to the promise of man’s best friend.”
― Lily and the Octopus
― Lily and the Octopus
“Somewhere, sometime, I stopped really living. I stopped really trying. And I don't understand why.”
― Lily and the Octopus
― Lily and the Octopus
Douglas’s 2025 Year in Books
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Favorite Genres
Classics, Contemporary, Crime, Fiction, Gay and Lesbian, Horror, Mystery, Poetry, Self help, Suspense, Spirituality, Thriller, and lgbt
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