Edgar Sawtelle Quotes

#1. When she walked through the woods (infrequently now) she picked her way along the path, making way for the boy inside to run along before her. It could be hard to choose the time outside over the time within. Almondine from The Story of Edgar Sawtelle

David Wroblewski

#2. Edgar Sawtelle is a boy without a voice, but his world, populated by the dogs his family breeds, is anything but silent. This is a remarkable story about the language of friendship - a language that transcends words.

Dalia Sofer

#3. Evelyn: ...Don't take my negativity for lack of self-confidence. I'm just a realist.
Maddie: Realistically dumb.

Rachel Hera

#4. But I begin to think the chief difficulty in writing a book must be to keep out what does not belong to it.

George MacDonald

#5. People feel like the system is rigged against them, and here is the painful part, they're right. The system is rigged.

Elizabeth Warren

#6. I know this messenger, guard," said Mr. Lorry, getting down into the road - assisted from behind more swiftly than politely by the other two passengers, who immediately scrambled into the coach, shut the door, and pulled up the window. "He may come close; there's nothing wrong.

Charles Dickens

#7. When I moved to Nashville, I didn't really let myself sonically explore, but things naturally got a little more poppy. And in L.A., even more so.

Madi Diaz

#8. If you look back far enough, everything is stolen and every country invaded.

Mark Forsyth

#9. I learned more about history and literature in the used bookstores in DC than in college libraries.

Douglas Brinkley

#10. The love that you search for everywhere is already present within you. It may be evoked by any number of people or events. But finally, you must realize you are this love. The source of all love is within you.

Gangaji

#11. In that dilated moment after sunset when the sky holds all the light ...

David Wroblewski

#12. Say what you want to say about the rest of his presidency, including his tone-deaf response to Katrina and a war waged in Iraq on false pretenses, Bush connected with Americans in the aftermath of 9/11 because he looked as frail and unforgiving as we felt.

Ron Fournier

#13. Unfunny people should be locked up, the key tossed into a smelter.

Patrick DeWitt