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Ray Smith
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January 2020
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The Magnolia That Bloomed Unseen
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HIDDEN SECRETS ABOUT VEGETABLES
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“A hundred years from now, folks will look back at this time period and think, Wow, what an incredible moment it must’ve been to be alive. Syrian refugees, human trafficking, climate change—the whole world is out there waiting to be saved. And you’ll have a grand adventure doing it, even if only in what you consider a small, locally based way. You know, you already have as a teacher.”
― The Magnolia That Bloomed Unseen
― The Magnolia That Bloomed Unseen
“I am merely at the midway point in the novel of my own life. On around page 250 of a 500-page tale and, given future medical advances, maybe even 200. There’s no reason why the next 250, 300, or even 350 pages will not be far more exciting than the first half.”
― The Magnolia That Bloomed Unseen
― The Magnolia That Bloomed Unseen
“John knew the best love stories were the ones that were never told. For no medium—no book, no poem, no play or movie—could ever tell a love story in its entirety, its full span and depth, from the exhilarating beginning to the tragic ending of all love stories. He didn’t mind if his life was forgotten—it had never occurred to him to want to be remembered—as long as he had truly lived, and to live life without experiencing one great love story was to not live at all.”
― The Magnolia That Bloomed Unseen
― The Magnolia That Bloomed Unseen
“Love is eternal . . . There is no end to that kind of love, even if the lovers’ bodies ceased to exist. That love is manifested everywhere else, in a million other couples worldwide, and probably a few not far from where I am driving, up the freeway, through a world I thought I knew but admit that I don’t know at all.”
― The Magnolia That Bloomed Unseen
― The Magnolia That Bloomed Unseen
“That was Sunday, June 5th, 2016—two years, ten months, and seventeen days ago. The next morning, Monday, June 6th, 2016, she began telling me the second story, the one that you have in front of you now. The story that changed my life and, if I were to wager a gentleman’s bet, maybe change yours too.”
― The Magnolia That Bloomed Unseen
― The Magnolia That Bloomed Unseen
“Self-pity, in a world of famine and war, is an obscene self-indulgence.”
― The Magnolia That Bloomed Unseen
― The Magnolia That Bloomed Unseen
“She had always thought history was made up of grand gestures, as recent, momentous events seem to demonstrate. The British Prime Minister kowtowing to the Nazi Fuehrer at Munich, the quarter-million troops landing on D-Day, the two atomic bombs that ended World War II. But now she knew better. History could be judged grand even if the event was, on the surface, small. For here, right in front of her, was history in the flesh, history that would be immortalized in print and film. The city council and mayor had surrendered, and evidently so had the biggest department store in town.”
― The Magnolia That Bloomed Unseen
― The Magnolia That Bloomed Unseen
“I don’t mind you pouring lemonade or whatever on us, but as soon as you hit a woman, I get mad. And that’s one show you don’t want the curtains to go up on.”
― The Magnolia That Bloomed Unseen
― The Magnolia That Bloomed Unseen
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