Left behind Quote by Elizabeth Heller

“... Other students lived on campus and got drunk at parties. Other students dated and graduated and got married and led normal lives. She…

— Michelle Davidson Argyle

“He had wanted to be a sophomore.”

— Annie Proulx

“There was something about him she wanted to learn, grow into, and hide in, where she could turn away from being an adult.”

— Michael Ondaatje

“But he was also the boy who’d shown up on her class field trip and shown her where she really belonged. The one who’d…

— Shannon Messenger

“Oh, she missed herself. It felt like she used to miss Abe, when he was at Harvard and then after they broke up. No,…

— Katharine Noel

“She had never been to college, and I often wondered where her life would have led under different circumstances. She might have been a…

— T.J. Forrester

“In college, twenty-nine had seemed impossibly old. By now, she'd thought, she'd be married and have kids. But as each year went by, she…

— Jennifer Close

“Her own heart beat wildly, reminding her of the way he’d always made her feel in high school. This was different, though. Better. They…

— Erin Knightley

“her parents had no way of telling her she was going away to school.”

— Lou Ann Walker

“You know they were never apart? He loved her so much he never grew tired of watching her, listening to her, hearing her laugh.…

— Anne Perry

“None of his friend's parents were still together, and in every case that seemed like the number one thing that had gone wrong with…

— Rainbow Rowell

“My father never went to college so it was really important I go to college. After college, I called him long distance and said,…

— Chuck Palahniuk