Quotes of: Private-schools Keyword

Grandfather always said school's a place where they take sixteen years to wear down your brain. Grandfather hardly went to school either.

Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

In high school I got voted most likely to get voted for something. Even though I was the only one who voted, it still felt terrific being nominated.

It Occurred to Me

I am not simply teaching the reading; I am teaching the reader.

Readicide: How Schools Are Killing Reading and What You Can Do About It

To become a lifelong reader, one has to do a lot of varied and interesting reading.

Readicide: How Schools Are Killing Reading and What You Can Do About It

Agatha, what do you see when you look in the mirror?" "I don't look in mirrors." "Why is that?" "Because horses and hogs don't sit around ogling their reflections!

The School for Good and Evil

Agatha: "If you say anything smug or stuck-up or shallow, I'll have Reaper follow you home." Sophie: "But then I can't talk!

The School for Good and Evil

Sophie: "For the Create-A-Tale Competition, your story ended with Snow White eaten by vultures and Cinderella drowning her-self in a tub." Agatha: "I thought it was a better ending.

The School for Good and Evil

Lillian sometimes wondered why psychologists focused so much on a couple’s life in their bedroom. You could learn everything about a couple just watching their kitchen choreography as they prepared dinner.

The School of Essential Ingredients

Each person's heart breaks in it's own way. Every cure will be different, but there are some things we all need. Before anything else, we need to feel safe.

The School of Essential Ingredients

He graduated law school, but he didn’t pass the bar. No, he stopped in and got drunk.

The Merits of Marthaism, and How Being Named Susan Can Benefit You

Before her parents were killed, Lena hadn't minded school. She had even liked some of her classes. Now school was just watching the clock tick.

The Never Prayer

Facebook is the perfect place to try on different identities until she finds one that sticks.

The New Kids: Big Dreams and Brave Journeys at a High School for Immigrant Teens

Haruhi: This is a sibling squabble, not a fight to the death! You're both wrong, and acting like idiots only proves it!

Ouran High School Host Club, Vol. 2

Rule #3 - It's okay to believe yourself better than the rest of the planet, so long as you keep it to yourself.

Ouran High School Host Club, Vol. 6

A kid shouldn't need a diagnosis to access help.

Lost at School: Why Our Kids with Behavioral Challenges are Falling Through the Cracks and How We Can Help Them

If a boy doesn't respect his mother...run!

Suzy Freaking Q: The Defintive Renegade High School Handbook on What to Say and What to Do about Guys, Friends, Parents and More.

If she did experience sex--or something close to it--in high school, I'm sure it would have been less out of sexual desire or love than literary curiosity.

Sputnik Sweetheart

High school is neither a democracy nor a dictatorship - nor, contrary to popular belief, an anarchic state. High school is a divine-right monarchy. And when the queen goes on vacation, things change.

Paper Towns

The Balti had as many names for rock as the Inuit have for snow.

Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time

At our present bad moment, we need above all to recover our sense of literary individuality and of poetic autonomy.

The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages

Brookfield High School. How may I direct your call? No, sir, this is not a waste- disposal unit, I'm afraid you have the wrong number.

The Year of Secret Assignments