"She is a loner, too bright for the slutty girls and too savage for the bright girls, haunting the edges and corners of the school like a sullen disillusioned ghost"

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Source : Eleanor Catton (2009). “The Rehearsal”

Eleanor Catton

#Girl Quotes #School Quotes #Loner Quotes

“The spring in Boston is like being in love: bad days slip in among the good ones, and the whole world is at a standstill, then the sun shines, the tears dry up, and we forget that yesterday was stormy.”

Source : Louise Closser Hale (1912). “Her Soul and Her Body”
“I'm a bit of a romantic.”
“I don't mind flying. I always pass out before the plane leaves the ground.”
“I think soldiers are not just one homogenous group, just like Americans arent. They all have different feelings about the war.”
“I'm going to be in another city when my kids are teenagers. I'll be like, 'Give me a call when you're done with all that.'”

Source : "Justine Bateman Gives Men in Trees a Good Shake". Interview with Margy Rochlin, www.tvguide.com. February 15, 2007.
“Winning isn't as important as doing well individually. You can't take teamwork up to the front office to negotiate.”
“O virtue, I have followed you through life, and find you at last but a shade.”
“Why else do we live, except to be loved and remembered by those we love?”

Source : Tom Spanbauer (2007). “In the City of Shy Hunters”, p.265, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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