Last Runaway Quotes

#1. Because thee remains there, it is easier for me to go, for thee can be the shore I look back on, the star that remains fixed."
from "The Last Runaway

Tracy Chevalier

#2. I read a lot of fantasy. I adored 'Anne of Green Gables'. But my favourite books as a child were probably Laura Ingalls Wilder's 'Little House' series, about a pioneer family in the mid-19th-century American west. I often thought of them as I was writing 'The Last Runaway'.

Tracy Chevalier

#3. Wrath to Butch : I always knew you were a royal; just didn't think it went past the pain-in-the-ass part is all.

J.R. Ward

#4. I could still turn back before I pass the last houses and really have to commit to this.

Claire Wong

#5. As far as celebrity, people don't stop me on the street and know who I am. It's more like, 'Doesn't she remind you of so-and-so's ex-girlfriend?' It's always somebody's ex-girlfriend. Somebody ex-girlfriend who's 'crazy.'

Michaela Watkins

#6. My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.

Robert M. Hutchins

#7. O Grandpa turned the rusty latchkey of his magnificent remembery and set free a symphony of stories

Glenda Millard

#8. Leaders at the highest levels of our government are undertaking a deliberate and systematic effort to redefine our government, our economy and our country.

Marco Rubio

#9. The wholeness, coherence, identity, which we attribute to the depicted scene [in a photograph] is a projection, a refusal of an impoverished reality in favour of an imagined plenitude.

Victor Burgin

#10. What we're trying to do is address something I saw in Congress that was a major problem, which is to say that energy is arguably the most fundamental issue confronting our country.

Brad Carson

#11. The future isn't just something that happens. It's a brutal force, with a great sense of humor, that'll steamroll you if you're not watching.

Cameron Crowe

#12. My all-time favorite interception was picking off Peyton Manning back in 2007, the one-hander down the sideline.

Antonio Cromartie

#13. My honesty now is merely a long-term investment in my own plausibility. Because there may come a day when I really need to lie, and then it might be handy if you think I'm honest.

Jo Nesbo

#14. My children inspire me with their innocence and enormous capacity to love.

Maria Canals Barrera

#15. Same blood, different mud.

Marcus Luttrell

#16. Previous governments, particularly the one before I took over, mismanaged the economy quite badly.

George Papandreou

#17. I want eternity. I was born for greater things ...

Stanislaus Kostka