College life Quote by Grace Metalious

“... 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

“But that after-midnight conversation, and any news it brought about the nature of Lisa's work, has gone away to hide in the place where…

— John Darnielle

“A few years ago, Cindy joined one of those dreadful reading groups, where unhappy, repressed middle class lesbians talk for five minutes about some…

— Nick Hornby

“Jody had watched other classmates, including many in college prep, enter such a life with an impatient fatalism. They got pregnant or arrested or…

— Ron Rash

“The life of a cigarette girl. Hawking cigarettes, breath mints and the occasional condom wasn’t actually the end-all and be-all job occupation for Linda.…

— Richard E. Riegel

“Still, I didn’t want to show up for the meeting empty-handed, so that night at my parents’ house I holed up in my room,…

— Ree Drummond

“That was the old Ellen Gulden, the girl who would walk over her mother in golf shoes, who scared students away from writing seminars,…

— Anna Quindlen

“Somehow she’d clabbered together a series of student loans to get her undergraduate degree at Boston College. Her graduation gift to herself was a…

— Wendy Wax

“I investigated her topnotch features and allusive intentions. She was the typical glitter-headed scene-bitch that one expects to see in a place that is…

— J.C. Wickhart

“I was never happier than on the nights we stayed home, lying on the living room rug. We talked about classes and poetry and…

— Ann Patchett

“she thought of the mix of kids in her class and in Melissa’s and she knew that the future could be bright. No one…

— Dixie Dawn Miller Goode

“There was always a dim chance that the job could lead to employment on a real magazine, which might be fun; besides, college had…

— Richard Yates