Alleen Mcwright > Alleen's Quotes

“I slammed the door, floored the throttle, and reversed down the road as fast as the old car would go, which was not very. Then I spun the wheel and hit the brakes, backing off the road. I crunched the transfer lever into four-wheel drive and trundled off toward the water. Behind us, the pickup was backing and filling, trying to turn around on the narrow road.”
― Grahame Shannon, Tiger and the Robot

“But, if we consider, as physicists now claim, that everything is energy—everything we see, everything we think, everything we do—then it is just possible that this same law of conservation of energy applies to questions of morality. A conservation of moral energy, a maintenance of equilibrium… a balance exists and must be preserved. If an action is taken that disrupts that balance, then an action similar in kind and degree is required to restore equilibrium.”
― J.K. Franko, Eye for Eye

“Life is funny that way. Sometimes the dumbest thing you do turns out to be the smartest.”
― Robyn Mundell, Brainwalker

“Jerry Laws, former smokejumper and now high school district superintendent: “We’re making changes in this district. Teachers teaching, not proselytizing, preparing students for life. No social promotions. Good order in every classroom. They must earn what they seek.”
― John M. Vermillion, Pack's Posse

“Let me not be afraid to defend the weak because of the anger of the strong, nor afraid to defend the poor because of the anger of the rich.”
― Alan Paton

“All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.”
― Thomas Mann

“Gramps’s”
― Sharon Creech, Walk Two Moons

“No hay inocentes; sólo distintos grados de responsabilidad.

Lisbeth Salander”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who Played with Fire

“If you must fail," he said grandly, "fail spectacularly!”
― Ranson Riggs , Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

“Just keep asking yourself: What would Jesus not do?”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Choke