Away from home Quote by Maureen Johnson

“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

She was the first person on either side of her family to go to college, and she held herself to insanely high standards. She…

— Rob Sheffield

Her education only made her unhappy thinking about it - that no matter how much she changed her life, she could not change the…

— Amy Tan

In the course of her education she had gone through the history usually put into the hands of young people... now her ripened reason…

— Charlotte Smith

Because there's no way on earth she's going to make it through college unless she grows some serious ovaries and turns this train wreck…

— Lisa McMann

“This was a time of life, she understood, in which you might not know what you were, but that was all right. You judged…

— Meg Wolitzer

I never had the college experience, so I have raised my girls to be more work-oriented and motivated to be financially independent.

— Yolanda Hadid

“College stirred in her a certain contempt for virtues like kindness and persistence. She would have appeared to have been a kind and persistent…

— Garth Risk Hallberg

“She has a fund of good sense and observation which, as a companion, makes her infinitely superior to thousands of those who having only…

— Jane Austen

“Why did she have to change and her mother didn't? She was still smoking, dating losers, drinking, and partying. She had totally forgotten about…

— Niki Jilvontae

She’d majored in English, hoping that meant she could spend the next four years reading and writing. And maybe the next four years after…

— Rainbow Rowell

“On the other side of graduation was her actual life, the slow narrowing of possibilities that would catch her and freeze her in a…

— Ling Ma