Back Against The Wall Quotes by Kiersten White, Curtis Jackson, Matthew Hayden, Jacqueline Woodson, John Major and many others.
Yes, I have a driver’s license.” I leaned back against the wall, sighing. “Man, that must be so cool.” “It ranks right up there with lockers. In fact, sometimes I put my license inside my locker, and it’s so cool I worry that the whole thing might explode with the sheer coolness of it all.
My past is my shadow, it follows me everywhere I go. Well, all those things come from when I had no other choice. They put my back against the wall. I do what I gotta do.
You never want an Australian with his back against the wall. You put any 12 blokes together and you’ll get a job done. Whether it’s getting a bogged four-wheel-drive off the beach or standing in front of a cricket wicket and making sure we’re in a dominant position. It’s the same dog, different leg action, so to speak.
A long time ago, Anne used to talk about energy – how that was all that love was – ions connecting across synapses of time and air. Don’t rationalize, she’d say. None of it will ever make sense. I leaned back against the wall and closed my eyes, not wanting to cry. Anne was right. None of it made any sense.
When your back is against the wall, there is only one thing to do, and that is turn around and fight.
