Idaho Quotes

“If you passed me walking home from school, you probably wouldn't even notice me. That's because I'm just a kid like you.
I go to school like you. I get bullied like you. Unlike you, I live in Idaho.
Don't ask me what state Idaho is in––news flash––Idaho IS a state.

~Michael Vey”
― Richard Paul Evans, The Prisoner of Cell 25

“Ahead and to the west was our ranger station - and the mountains of Idaho, poems of geology stretching beyond any boundaries and seemingly even beyond the world.”
― Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It and Other Stories

“sibling laughter–he can hear it– not the laughter of school friends or neighbors or cousins. Something secret in that laughter, private, edged with meanness and devotion”
― Emily Ruskovich, Idaho

“I like the idea of different

theres and elsewheres, an Idaho known for bluegrass,
a Bronx where people talk
like violets smell. Perhaps I am somewhere patient, somehow
kind, perhaps in the nook

of a cousin universe I've never defiled or betrayed
anyone.”
― bob hicok

“Take you picture off the wall
And carry it away
Dye your hair the shades of fall
Don't let time turn it to gray

Don't think of me, I'll be all right
Seems I've always done okay
Just give me one more kiss good night
For the last time, turn away”
― Emily Ruskovich, Idaho

“The youth of Idaho falls should be encouraged to take drugs in order to cope up with the fact that there is plutonium in their drinking water.”
― Bill Bryson, The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America

“Do we allow unlimited visitation, or do we restrict numbers to protect a delicate ecosystem? Do we heavily advertise the park, enticing paying visitors, generating needed money for Idaho's park department, or do we sacrifice financial benefits to better preserve natural ones? Do we log diseased trees, interfering with nature, or do we allow trees to rot and fall, possibly endangering lives? Do we inexpensively repair historic structures, or do we meticulously restore them? Do we maintain this park as closely as possible to the condition in which Idaho received it, or do we develop it for multiple uses; allow overnight visitors; permit all-terrain vehicles; provide paths for those unable to navigate unpaved trails?”
― Mary E. Reed, Harriman: From Railroad Ranch to State Park

“And this, my friends, is how love f*cks up your life.”
― Beck Anderson, Use Somebody

“I was just wondering how long we were going to pretend like we annoyed each other before we started sleeping together.”
― Beck Anderson, Use Somebody

“He sings so softly. Almost a whisper. Not like her father at all. Like the voices they give to the dolls, the men.”
― Emily Ruskovich, Idaho

“There was a coldness in his unwavering ease, his constant and impersonal joy.”
― Emily Ruskovich, Idaho

“She feels in fact that Wade's death is the very end of her heart. It is strange to arrive here at the end after all this time, and also strange to realize she hasn't been here before.”
― Emily Ruskovich, Idaho

“Take your picture off the wall
So I won't have to see your eyes
And maybe soon I won't recall
The painful things that once were nice”
― Emily Ruskovich

“Hall Jackson Kelley considered himself to be the Messiah of Oregon, but he was only its John the Baptist, crying in the wilderness. He inspired thousands who turned their eyes toward Oregon because of his burning message; most notable of whom were the other two members of that Massachusetts triumvirate, Nathaniel J. Wyeth and Captain Bonneville, who were to open up the Snake River country for the Americans.”
― Frank C. Robertson, Fort Hall: Gateway to the Oregon Country

“0820 Hours, 10 miles West of Howell, Idaho: “Patton, Kap, X-Twins! Up top in five! Let’s go!” yelled a familiar voice from the ladder leading to above ground Idaho. The Northern Cave Complex in Redoubt West was something to behold.”
― C. Elmon Meade, The Demagogue Wars

“The plane descended into the rugged mounts of southeastern Idaho as Brown repeated a desperate Mayday call. They were streaking downward into Bear Claw National Forest. It was thousands of miles in the most pristine, pure and rugged wilderness in the United States. It was a place where the roar of grizzly bears and mountain lions could still be heard. The plane nosed down into an isolated canyon. It was a tiny speck on the map know only as “The Breath of Hell.”
― Lawrence Wertan, The Lost Champion

“Beware those who have little left to lose." — From LOVE AND PROTEST, the story of the courtship of Senator Cole Nicole LeFavour and Carol Growhoski, and the good trouble of Idaho's Add the Words movement.”
― Cole Nicole LeFavour

“Midwifery was not illegal in the state of Idaho, but it had not yet been sanctioned. If a delivery went wrong, a midwife might face charges for practicing medicine without a license; if things went very wrong, she could face criminal charges for manslaughter, even prison time. Few women would take such a risk, so midwives were scarce: on the day Judy left for Wyoming, Mother became the only midwife for a hundred miles.”
― Tara Westover, Educated