Courage-under-fire Quote by Shafter Bailey

“By the time I slip back to my room, it's almost six. Jasmine is in bed, awake and waiting for me..."Where were you?" Where…

— Justina Chen Headley

“And there was some point as a professor at Stanford and Harvard when I experienced being caught in some kind of a meaningless game…

— Ram Dass

“A very loud popping sound echoed across the seminar room. Each graduate student gazed in complete and utter shock as they realized that Professor…

— Sylvain Reynard

“The other instructors, even his mother, laughed at him for making work harder for himself and not teaching the workbook. But his students were…

— Lisa Ko

“She drew herself up and crossed her arms over her chest. “So Buck can enjoy sitting in a cell contemplating how he blew up…

— Tammara Webber

“from The Prep Pantheon: An All-Time Great Alumni Association Caroline Kennedy. Concord Academy ’75. Harvard ’80. On technical points Preppier than Mummy. During four…

— Lisa Birnbach

“I read and talked into the microphone and was gracious to the local rich, the English faculty and the college president, and the students…

— Adam Begley

“I was sitting with the rest of my college graduating class listening to the commencement speaker prepare us for life after graduation, and he…

— Doug Lansky

“But as the weeks rolled on, I realized it wasn’t a lack of glamour that was bothering me. Instead, I kept thinking back to…

— David Litt

“Mary’s hands clenched. She’d been through fire, what with a murder, and white supremacists. And what about Caroline, who had gone undercover to rescue…

— Susan Rowland

“Samantha Jennings sat next to him. Teachers thought Samantha was fantastic: always volunteering for stuff, neat uniform, glossed nails. She did all her diagrams…

— Robert Muchamore

“I came to college to study, Cass, not to whore myself out to drunken frat boys!” She gaffawed. “Whatever, darlin’, you won’t be thinking…

— Tillie Cole