Quote by Maria Semple

“Does every pickup in Idaho come complete with a dog in the back?”

— Stan Purdum

“They looking at the plates that shows we not from here.”

— G. Neri

“You from out of town?” he asked after a while, eying my car. “No,” I said. “I go to Kentucky every year to get…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“One licence plate: Louisiana, Sportsman’s Paradise.”

— Heide Goody

“I had to ride my bike to and from their god damn plant way up north in the high-chemical crime district, and reachable only…

— Neal Stephenson

“How can people in California have problems with their feet?" asks Molly moving around Olive with a plate of sandwiches. "Don't they drive everywhere?”

— Elizabeth Strout

“unlike most Californians who fled their state and moved here and then wanted to make Montana into a version of what they left behind.”

— Dean Koontz

“And a town not too far from where you live has a law that bars me from coming within five miles of its borders”

— Lemony Snicket

“My destination is only 50 miles away, all I have is a bike with a broken wheel.”

— Britany Lopez

“I don’t want to own these prairies, or photograph them, or change them, or even stop or even keep going. We are just moving…

— Robert M. Pirsig

“Here's something that might not occur to you: If a state trooper sees a weird, patchwork Toyota Echo hurtling down 1-95, and it looks…

— James Patterson

“And yet, without discipline or direction, they’ll end up washing cars, or unclaimed bodies in the city-state’s morgue.”

— Sanyika Shakur