Quote by Orson Scott Card

“I felt an urge to conquer this new village.”

— Xiaolu Guo

“As I stomped across the school grounds, all I could see was Cal sitting with my dad in some manly room with leather chairs…

— Rachel Hawkins

“The school is built on top of a small rise,”

— Andrea White

“One of the plainest truths about both towns and individuals is that they usually don’t turn into what we tell them to be, but…

— Fredrik Backman

“Do you like this school? I like it very, very much. But soon everything changes. Well at least it does eventually. Fun things, happy…

— Juri Misaki

“Do you like this school? I have to say I like it very very much. But soon everything changes. Well at least it does…

— Key

“The Village is full of people who look quite alien and monstrous and I’m not speaking of hippies only, there are occasional soldiers of…

— William S. Burroughs Jr

“To the extent a school is like a factory,”

— Warren Berger

“Our village life would stagnate if it were not for the unexplored forests and meadows that surround it. We need the tonic of wildness...”

— Henry David Thoreau

“Everyone had memorized a chant of names and villages along footpaths in every direction. This was a very useful map.”

— Rory Stewart

“The first few weeks of school were always surreal, like you landed on an alien planet with strange teachers and unfamiliar classrooms, even though…

— S.M. Stevens

“The joy of a small town lies in its unchanging nature.”

— Bryce Courtenay