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“From the time we were little, you treated us as if our ideas mattered.”

— Anderson Cooper

“...we knew that everything was more about how it appeared than how it was. The most important thing, in any circumstance, was to amount…

— Janne Teller

“But we wanted you to fill up on good things before you had to face the bad.”

— Jennifer Latham

“...I had decided to tidy up a bit. Actually it hadn't really been a choice. The situation had got out of hand, particularly because…

— Gianrico Carofiglio

“I thought about how people seemed always to keep their distance. And how I always made sure to keep mine. The schoolmaster, Mr. Henderson,…

— Lauren Wolk

“It was examinations (in school) that drove my wits away, as all emergencies do. Being expected to measure up was paralysing. It was never…

— Eudora Welty

“We had, you could say, everything but money -- Grandmam and I did, anyhow. We had each other and our work, and not much…

— Wendell Berry

“But the one thing he could not have imagined is that we were withholding nothing. That there was nothing on the other side of…

— Lionel Shriver

“How wrong they were. I wasn’t a poor little thing at all. Even as early as this, such is the relief when pressure is…

— Elizabeth von Arnim

“In the end we remember all the students we've gone to school with and invite them to our homes only to find out that…

— Thomas Bernhard

“Actually, I liked the principal’s office. It was interesting to see the teachers come and go, talking about what they would have for lunch…

— Walter Dean Myers

“They must have begun in life knowing they were going to amount to something.”

— Eve Babitz