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Elizabeth Smart quotes

American Celebrity December 27, 1913 – March 4, 1986

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I review all I know, but can synthesize no meaning. When I doze, the Fact, the certain accomplished calamity, wakes me roughly like a brutal nurse. I see it crouching inflexibly in a corner of the ceiling. It comes down in geometrical diagonal like lightning. It says, I remain, I AM, I shall never cease to be: your memory will grow a deathly glaze: you will forget, you will fade out, but I cannot be undone. Thus every quarter hour it puts the taste of death in my mouth, and shows me, but not... Elizabeth Smart
I am shot with wounds which have eyes that see a world all sorrow, always to be, panoramic and unhealable, and mouths that hang unspeakable in the sky of blood. Elizabeth Smart
April 19And now it is spring. Birds are singing. Wistful notes and jubilant. And bare streets and no need for coats, and skipping ropes and bicycles and a thin new moon. Elizabeth Smart
Elizabeth Smart quote: "I feel helpless, hopeless, too low to call out, too weak to..."
I feel helpless, hopeless, too low to call out, too weak to think. Impotent tears dribble down. Elizabeth Smart
Elizabeth Smart quote: "I have learned to smoke because I need something to hold onto."
I have learned to smoke because I need something to hold onto. Elizabeth Smart
Elizabeth Smart quote: "The long days seduce all thought away, and we lie like the..."
The long days seduce all thought away, and we lie like the lizards in the sun, postponing our lives indefinitely. Elizabeth Smart
Man is, without doubt, the defacer, the destroyer. But spending at least the last three years in trying to understand the enemy has almost seduced me to his side. Elizabeth Smart
Elizabeth Smart quote: "Who, if I cried, would hear me among the angelic orders?"
Who, if I cried, would hear me among the angelic orders? Elizabeth Smart
Elizabeth Smart quote: "The temperament of a dandelion or cosmic preservation. Where..."
The temperament of a dandelion or cosmic preservation. Where does wonder begin? Elizabeth Smart
Elizabeth Smart quote: "Swearing invulnerably, I measure mercilessly his shortcomings,..."
Swearing invulnerably, I measure mercilessly his shortcomings, and with luxurious scorn, ask who could be ensnared there. Elizabeth Smart
Elizabeth Smart quote: "he has martyred me, but for no cause"
he has martyred me, but for no cause Elizabeth Smart
Elizabeth Smart quote: "He is mad. I am mad too, with an inward curtain-like madness...."
He is mad. I am mad too, with an inward curtain-like madness. A pall. There is no illumination. Elizabeth Smart

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