Book of Quotes

Don't Look Behind You

Don't Look Behind You by Lois Duncan

- "After I'd completed the letter I reread it carefully. As far as I could see, it was totally innocuous, void of every shred of real information."

- "A man like Vamp knows all the angles."

- "It doesn't make any difference what we call ourselves. We're still the same people we always were, isn't that right kids?"

- "I missed that girl and I desperately wanted her back."

- "All the warmth and solidity was gones from our lives, and my parents had changes so much I barely knew them."

- "There had been a time when I could not have lied to my mother; in fact, I had never been comfortable lying to anyone. But in the past three months I had become practives in deception, and the words slipped out of my mouth sounding easy and natural."

- "Things change, and life goes on, and we roll with the punches."

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This was a short book. It was also a dreadful book. I had to read it for school. I hated every minute of it. The first 100 pages are just this family sitting in a hotel room. Then like the next 50 pages they get new IDs, move to Florida, go to Disney, the teenage narrator gets recognized, she takes off back to Virginia (or wherever they are from), gets tracked by a guy wanting to murder them, goes back to Florida with her grandmother while being tracked, gets held hostage for 10 minutes, kills the guy tracking her and that held her hostage, and the family gets new IDs again. If you ask me Lois Duncan should of made it the other way around, spending 50 pages on the hotel and 100 pages of the rest of the book. I also just don't like her writing style very much but I had to read one of her books for school.

Next: If I Stay

A much better book if you ask me.