Solitary Tales Book Quotes & Sayings

Things like this don't happen back in Libertyville, Illinois.
You don't get lost in the woods behind your house.
You don't get trapped inside a fortress-like wall ten feet tall. — Travis Thrasher

I hadn't known my dad could get so competitive over an auction. It was
probably a good thing he hadn't yet discovered eBay. — Piper Banks

I read Twitter all the time, even though I rarely tweet. — Will.i.am

This is Teenage madness.
Trapped in a room knowing there's more outside.
Trapped listening to a teacher talk about Hemingway as if each sentence and word had mythical importance.
Trapped knowing she is in the room with me. — Travis Thrasher

When we were working on 'Looking' in San Francisco, I bought a new bike from Mission Bicycle Company, which I'm completely in love with. — Murray Bartlett

Literature is the adventure. It's the story, it's the fight, it's people falling in love, it's people with deep personality disorders who succeed anyway beyond themselves. That's what great literature is. — Walter Mosley

What is needed most in architecture today is the very thing that is most needed in life- Integrity. Just as it is in a human being, so integrity is the deepest quality in a building ... if we succeed, we will have done a great service to our moral nature- the psyche- of our democratic society ... Stand up for integrity in your building and you stand for integrity not only in the life of those who did the building but socially a reciprocal relationship is inevitable. — Frank Lloyd Wright

When God shows up and the unexplainable happens, don't attempt to explain it as something you did. Tell the story of how God has worked through you to change lives by His grace. — Dillon Burroughs

Holding a grudge does not hurt the person against whom the grudge is held, it hurts the one who holds it. — Booker T. Washington

Sancho, when a man knows not how to read, or is left-handed, it argues one of two things; either that he was the son of exceedingly mean and lowly parents, or that he himself was so incorrigible and ill-conditioned that neither good company nor good teaching could make any impression on him. — Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

I'm sixteen with what I hope will be a long life ahead, but I'm willing to give it up, to give anything to let her live, to let her make it through the night. — Travis Thrasher

Syria's population is 74% Sunni Muslim. — Elliott Abrams

Our forefathers used to live longer and healthy lives. — Yahya Jammeh