Solitary Tales Book Quotes

#1. Reality is what I see, not what you see.

Woodrow Wilson

#2. I began to read the Holy Scriptures upon my knees, laying aside all other books, and praying over, if possible, every line and word. This proved meat indeed and drink indeed to my soul. I daily received fresh life, light and power from above.

George Whitefield

#3. 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

#4. Doctors take the Hippocratic Oath too seriously, as an imperative to do everything for the patient regardless of the cost or effects on others

Ezekiel Emanuel

#5. Spelling is very easy to practice yourself whereas signing is not. So I would sit on the subway riding around New York and I would spell whatever I would see. When I watched a movie I would spell words as they came up.

Richard Masur

#6. I grew up in a Navy family, and like most service families, we traveled a lot and moved a lot. I grew up on both coasts and in the suburbs of Washington, D.C., in Rockville, Maryland, and have had a great time doing it.

Alan G. Poindexter

#7. 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

#8. We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it.

Edward R. Murrow

#9. Ironically, we often fail to see that whenever we compromise ourselves to please others, we tend to lose their respect.

Craig Groeschel

#10. A free woman in an unfree society will be a monster.

Angela Carter

#11. She felt listless, tragic, and slightly murderous. She was irritable and prickly with exactly those people who were the kindest to her.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#12. Craving is a good thing.In matters of culinary art, craving creates wonders.

Andy Paula

#13. East Germans are the Greeks of Germany," I say. "Be careful," she says.

Michael Lewis

#14. 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

#15. Why live for the approval of men when you can have the approval of their Creator? What can they give you that God can't?

LeCrae

#16. I had believed that justice could exist in a society founded on injustice.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#17. Henceforth, whenever we are threatened with being cast adrift upon love's transcendent, golden shore, I want you to slap my face.

Amanda Quick