Failure Quote by Audrey Bell

“The first children of my age that I knew were in kindergarten. They seemed very strange, they laughed and talked and seemed happy. I…

— Charles Bukowski

“Instead I sounded like a little girl on her first day of kindergarten. My name is Bee, and I like coloring and horsies.”

— Kate Avery Ellison

“I turned to discover the faint smile of the bookseller's niece. Her voice was pure crystal, transparent and so fragile I feared that her…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“Lila appeared in my life in first grade and immediately impressed me because she was very bad.”

— Elena Ferrante

“She smiled, pretending to be unaware like every child, but she knew. Children know things even if they can’t explain them in words.”

— Cara Ruegg

“The child had wanted attention. She had just asked to be noticed. But she was given an assessment. 'What a clever girl!”

— Peter Høeg

“Why is it, Miranda,’ she whispered, ‘that such a sweet pretty creature is a schoolteacher – of all dreary things in the world . . .?”

— Joan Lindsay

“And if it took me more than thirty seconds of thinking, he wouldn't let me flounder. He would jump right in and explain. Not…

— Lili St. Crow

“I had this teacher who kept telling me that if I was ever in a fair fight, someone had made a mistake,” she said”

— Jim Butcher

“I could imagine her as a kindergartener, making a high-tech raid on the family cookie jar.”

— Stuart Gibbs

“Like all children, you would have loved and admired her. You would have named your favorite doll after her....And then you would have poked…

— Sally Hobart Alexander

“She remembers reaching into her schoolbag for the letter the way you reach for a second piece of cake if it remains on the…

— Elizabeth Hay