Money Quote by Tim Gautreaux

“It's funny how getting stabbed through the heart by a friend can bring your whole school year down.”

— Heather Brewer

“So I sat there and thought about faking a heart attack so I could skip school for a few months. I mean, they wouldn’t…

— John Goode

“I was outclassed and outgunned, and I was only realizing it when it was too late to do a damn thing about it. A…

— R.K. Lilley

“The more time I spent at the Finches', the more I realized what a waste of my life this school crap was. It was…

— Augusten Burroughs

“I study these things.I'm an academic.I don't get tangled up in trivial matters of the heart.”

— Lauren Kate

“Our parents teach us the very first things we learn. They teach us about hearts.”

— Franny Billingsley

“...better a live bird in the jungle of the body than two stuffed birds on the library table.”

— Nathanael West

“Don’t you know that’s what college is about...students spending years gathering useless information they’ll never use again, going hopelessly into debt, just so they…

— A.L. Jackson

“a good heart is, I believe, much more desirable than education or brains.”

— L. Frank Baum

“I will admit, I've never had a student offer himself up for a vicious beating in order to prove he's worth my time.” “This…

— Patrick Rothfuss

“More important, while these students were in school, I was learning from life. And so I have something to offer that they do not.”

— Yeonmi Park

“It was as if every day a piece of my heart was plucked out by birds and carried away little by little.”

— Bart Baker