The Wall Quotes

“I always thought strength came from within you, that it started there and ended there. It was of your own making.
I was wrong.
Strength is a gift placed inside you, built up by the people who love you. Fortified by the people who hate or threaten you. These are the things I will teach my son.”
― Lauren Nicolle Taylor, The Wall

“We were like trees with nowhere to sink our roots, Joseph and I. Instead of finding the ground we wound them around each other.”
― Lauren Nicolle Taylor, The Wall

“Now that I had experienced real freedom, I’m not sure I would ever get used to walls again. Walls loomed, leaned in, and whispered nasty things in your ears. They imposed and imprisoned. I hated them.”
― Lauren Nicolle Taylor, The Wall

“I am a survivor. I live beyond the wall. I give shelter to those that need it. I am not chosen but I choose to live.”
― Lauren Nicolle Taylor, The Wall

“I forgot that with the green, the plushness, and shiny plant life that pushed up and surrounded us, with the nourishment it provided came—the fur, the claws, the teeth.
This was not our place. We were borrowers. No longer were we the dominant species. Our time had passed.
We were small in number and frame.
We were supposed to run.
Climb.
Cower
I forgot.”
― Lauren Nicolle Taylor, The Wall

“People think they can hide these things. But it always comes out, usually at the worst and wrong time.”
― Lauren Nicolle Taylor, The Wall