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"I didn't give it much thought back then. I just wanted to get all the words straight and collect my A."
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"He nodded toward the sub. "This is going to be a blow-off day."I dragged my mind away from magical intrigue. After being homeschooled for most of my life, some parts of the "normal" school world was a mystery. "What does that mean, exactly.""Usually teacher leave subs a lesson plan, telling them what to do. I saw Ms. Terwilliger left. It said, 'Distract them."
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"As a teenager at high school, I felt like an outsider."
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"My chops are still up, even though I'm not still in high school."
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"You ought to go to a boy's school sometime. Try it sometime," I said. "It's full of phonies, and all you do is study so that you can learn enough to be smart enough to be able to buy a goddam Cadillac some day, and you have to keep making believe you give a damn if the football team loses, and all you do is talk about girls and liquor and sex all day, and everybody sticks together in these dirty little goddam cliques."
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"Never go to your high school reunion pregnant or they will think that is all you have done since you graduated."
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"I ain't here to argue about his facial features. Or here to convert atheists into believers. I'm just trying to say the way school need teachers the way Kathie Lee needed Regis that's the way yall need Jesus."
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"Seneca brings vividly before us a picture of the various scholars assembled in a school of the philosophers."
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"When I went to school, I was in the same mode. I did the things I enjoyed, what I loved."
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"We don't stop going to school when we graduate."
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"And then, when I started to school, I found out I couldn't talk."
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"You can't undo loss. You can't unmake a mistake. (What The Hell Have You Done, Sophie Roth?)"
Life
"Forward momentum. That's my new motto. No regrets. And no going back."
Inspirational
"Sleepovers and dance parties and those talks we would have until three in the morning that would make us feel lousy the next day because we'd slept like hell but also feel good because the talks were like blood transfusions, moments of realness and hope that were pinpricks of light in the dark fabric of small-town life."
Relationship
"Sometimes we meet people and are so symbiotic with them, it's as if we are one person, with one mind, one destiny."
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"Pictures can be pretty deceptive."
Psychology
"It's just one day, one twenty-four-hour period to get yourself through."
Life
"My parents always seemed less like lovebirds than like amiable business partners, for whom I'm the sole product."
Family
"I run my finger along the crease of the envelope, feel the weight of history inside. Wherever I'm going next, these are coming with me."
History
"Sometimes you make choices in life, and sometimes choices make you."
Life
"My anger feels hot and bilious but I keep it bottled until it doubles back and I'm mad at myself."
Psychology
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