#college

It doesn’t matter what’s wrong with him. We’re not going to act like he doesn’t exist. Not anymore. ↗

— Carrie Butler

#new-adult #new-adult-romance #paranormal-romance #romance #series

Tanned, toned, curves in the right places and that small waist…lips, hair, eyes all packaged up like a siren. If she’s a siren, I heard her call, and I’m diving in hook, line, and sinker. - Drew Donovan ↗

— Kailin Gow

#college #donovan-brothers #drew-donovan #kailin-gow #loving-summer

Maybe that was why another part of me--a very small part--had wanted to kiss Wallace then. Both sides of his mouth, between his brows, and every other place those stupid worry lines marred his expression. That part of me had wanted to hold him tight and give him the comfort I knew he couldn’t ask for. But that part terrified me the most. ↗

— Carrie Butler

#new-adult #new-adult-romance #paranormal-romance #new-adult

Every year, many, many stupid people graduate from college. And if they can do it, so can you. ↗

— John Green

#humor #humor

Lacing my fingers through his, I studied them. His fingers were so much longer than mine, and I envisioned what those fingers could do. And how long they would take to do it before they sent me over the edge. - Lacey ↗

— Victoria H. Smith

#interracial-romance #new-adult #new-adult-romance #summer-before-college #contemporary-romance

That girl was a goddess and once a guy got hooked on her it was damn hard weaning off. - Drake ↗

— Victoria H. Smith

#new-adult #romance #summer-before-college #contemporary-romance

She told her therapist it reminded her of coming home the summer after her freshman year at Rutgers, stepping back into the warm bath of family and friends, loving it for a week or two, and then feeling trapped, dying to return to school, missing her roommates and her cute new boyfriend, the classes and the parties and the giggly talks before bed, understanding for the first time that that was her real life now, that this, despite everything she'd ever loved about it, was finished for good. ↗

— Tom Perrotta

#transitions #family

Colleges hate geniuses, just as convents hate saints. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#genius #home-schooling #humor #school #humor

Look, Mrs. McGillicuddy, it's not my fault your son jumped out a dorm room window on Christmas eve. I've written over fifty books as a Columbia professor, all right? You don't do that by holding hands with every at-risk undergraduate who says he's homesick, or he's turning gay, or the dog ate his term paper. I write about Lincoln, and freedom, and great ideas. I don't always have time for students. It's like Dean Martin used to say: if you want to talk, go to a priest. Hey -- what's the gun for? ↗

— Eric Foner

#humor #freedom

And yet not a dream, but a mighty reality- a glimpse of the higher life, the broader possibilities of humanity, which is granted to the man who, amid the rush and roar of living, pauses four short years to learn what living means ↗

— W.E.B. Du Bois

#dreams