"I deliberately went to boarding school. It was my choice. My mum was abroad and I wanted to wean myself off being dependent. It was a very important time for me to be able to create my own individual, independent life; just as a way of growing up."

-- Alice Englert

#Growing Up Quotes #School Quotes #Independent Quotes

“I'm afraid everything I was is gone and all that's left is everything I'm not.”

Source : Courtney Summers (2015). “Please Remain Calm”, p.28, Macmillan
“Language is a finding-place not a hiding place.”
“One forges one's style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines.”

Source : "The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations" by Elizabeth Knowles and Angela Partington, (p. 840), 1999.
“If, as Steven King once wrote, 'Valleys are the dimples on the face of the earth,' then Silicon Valley is undoubtedly the deepest, most sparkling dimple of them all.”
“United we stand, divided we fall. Let us not split into factions which must destroy that union upon which our existence hangs.”

Source : Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Free your mind from all that troubles you; God will take care of things. You will be unable to make haste in this (choice) without, so to speak, grieving the heart of God, because he sees that you do not honor him sufficiently with holy trust. Trust in him, I beg you, and you will have the fulfillment of what your heart desires.”
“Bernard's [Leach] drawings delineated every little accent on the pot, every subtle curve and change of angle and proportion and all.”
“One of the biggest motivations for me with writing my books is to offer girls some escapism, especially girls who really need it, like I did.”

Source : "My family values" by Meg Cabot, www.theguardian.com. November 28, 2008.

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