“But it seems to Samuel that all the school is preparing them for is to sit quietly and fake that they're working. To feign the appearance of concentration when in fact they're checking sports scores or e-mail or watching videos… — Nathan Hill, The Nix Copy Share Image
“What Faye won't understand and may never understand is that there is not one true self hidden by many false ones, Rather, there is… — Nathan Hill, The Nix Copy Share Image
“This was the price of hope, he realized, this shattering disappointment.” — Nathan Hill, The Nix Copy Share Image
“When all you have is the memory of a thing," she said, "all you can think about is how the thing is gone.” — Nathan Hill, The Nix Copy Share Image
“That face they thought looked like patience but actually looked like they were quietly shitting pinecones.” — Nathan Hill, The Nix Copy Share Image
“The things you love the most will one day hurt you the worst.” — Nathan Hill, The Nix Copy Share Image
“If a new beginning is really new, it will feel like a crisis. Any real change should make you feel, at first, afraid. If… — Nathan Hill, The Nix Copy Share Image
“...she’s aware that she is only partly doing this because she genuinely wants to. Se’s also doing this because she wants to prove something… — Nathan Hill, The Nix Copy Share Image
“She'd decided that about eighty percent of what you believe about yourself when you're twenty turns out to be wrong. The problem is you… — Nathan Hill, The Nix Copy Share Image
“Anger was such an easy emotion to feel, the refuge of someone who didn't want to work too hard.” — Nathan Hill, The Nix Copy Share Image
“Love -- real, genuine, unasked-for-love -- made room for more of itself, it turned out. Love, when freely given, duplicates and multiplies.” — Nathan Hill, The Nix Copy Share Image
“...sometimes a crisis is not really a crisis at all - just a new beginning. Because one thing she’s learned through all this is… — Nathan Hill, The Nix Copy Share Image
“Sometimes we're so wrapped up in our own story that we don't see how we're supporting characters in someone else's.” — Nathan Hill, The Nix Copy Share Image
“Years later, in a high-school biology class, Samuel heard a story about a certain kind of African turtle that swam across the ocean to… — Nathan Hill, The Nix Copy Share Image
“But it seems to Samuel that all the school is preparing them for is to sit quietly and fake that they're working. To feign… — Nathan Hill, The Nix Copy Share Image
