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“And then he winked.Jeez, I thought my heart would explode on the spot. The last time a guy winked at me was years ago, and thatd been a creepy mall Santa.”
“Surely there was at least one other girl on campus not sporting a French pedicure (do girls really think were fooled by the little white lines painted across their toenails?), who had some black in...”
“In this neighbourhood people don't venture out after dark. It's not safe for them. Only the terminally stupid and the criminally motivated come out at this hour.”
“...make sure if you're working hard at something it's in a subject you actually want to remember something about ten years later.”
“I couldnt help but notice how hot he looked tonight with his strong build lining his t-shirt. He should never cover his beauty with clothes and such things. - Ariel”
“...Come on lets see the degree. Katherine unrolled her scroll displaying a long declaration in Latin affixed with a red seal proclaiming her a Master of Art. Imagine working for years to obtain a p...”
“I dont want us to be ashamed anymore (we all were crying by this point) of being pregnant or gay or poor or having a crackhead dad! I want us to be fucking proud of ourselves. (...) So we have to b...”
“Creation is scientific.”
“To be a writer you have to write -- and no academic degree is going to do the writing for you. ”
“You can't learn to write in college. It's a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you doand they don't. They have prejudices. They may like Henry James, b...”
“Ever since college, I make friends. They get married. I lose friends.”
“You look incredible, Kavanagh, Quinn whispered close to my ear. Are you trying to kill me?Ssshhh, I hissed. Theyre going to hear you.I cant tell my date shes beautiful?I turned my head. No. No, you...”
“Thanet is having a moment, I said, leaning forward so Quinn could see him.Whats wrong, man? Quinn said. Were you not aware high school dances suck? That they always have sucked and they will contin...”
“I didnt look at Thanet. I couldnt because he would see the hurt on my face.He loves you, Thanet said. Hes hurting and its not just the Quinn thing. Its being away from you and wondering if youre hu...”
“A college provides a means of accrediting and laundering ones existence, so that what was may be forgotten under the weight of something far more mundane.”
“For the first time he considers the full emotional dimensions of the day. His life is changing but his parents lives are changing too. Like a habitat, abruptly deprived of a major species, the hous...”
“But the compulsive overachievement of today's elite college students - the sense that they need to keep running as fast as they can - is not the only thing that keeps them from forming the deeper r...”
“The image of him shifted with the violent frenzy of leaves. He was there and he wasnt, as the leaves whipped and the lightning fell away in a slow strobe effect across the expanse of sky. How he ha...”
“You may suppose that perhaps this Walter T. Wallace found his destiny in food and passed down to his progeny a legacy like that of the great Colonel Sanders. The folks here in Wallace County would ...”
“I tried to lose myself in school and friends as best as I was able, trying to put Dorian's world out of my mind. But that was pretty much impossible with Clarrisa's constant, homicidally cheerful p...”
