The Last Runaway Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. After 'Nikki' and 'Steve Harvey,' I had written on a show called 'The Oblongs,' which was pretty well respected and had a lot of 'Simpsons' writers on it. So I was a TV writer with an interesting voice at that moment.

Jill Soloway

#4. My state of mind, and all accompanying circumstances, were just now such as most to favour the adoption of a new, resolute, and daring - perhaps desperate - line of action. I had nothing to lose.

Charlotte Bronte

#5. Regrets, Blacksmith, make poor currency. You can't but back with them what you most desire.

John Connolly

#6. For all other writings should point to the Scriptures, as John pointed to Christ; when he said, "He must increase, but I must decrease." [John 3:30]

Martin Luther

#7. There's nothing like realizing that you don't have much time left to stimulate your appreciation for the moments of your life.

Ruth Ozeki

#8. I think I'm supposed to "take a sad song and make it better," but that's beyond my musical ability

Sophia Bennett

#9. Defence lawyers use the term "duress" to describe the use of force, coercion or psychological pressure exerted on a client in the commission of a crime. When duress is applied to the emotionally unstable the result can be as violent as it is unpredictable.

Emily Thorne

#10. Many of the French follow a Trade with the Indians, living very conveniently for that Interest.

John Lawson

#11. I can't get through the gate. The gate is narrow.

Drew Brees

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

Claire Wong

#13. It may sound affected - but it is the act of creation itself, and it is equally exhilarating whether one is working on a teaspoon or a national bank.

Arne Jacobsen

#14. A drowning person doesn't rescue herself.

Julie Schumacher

#15. Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.

Oprah Winfrey