#high

High school’s actually kind of boring. It’s a little bit like living in the Center. Everyone thinks they know everything about everyone else, but really there’s a lot more under the surface. (Lend) ↗

— Kiersten White

#high-school

Ooh, Snowberry, you were right,” one of them said, wrinkling her nose like she smelled something foul. “She does reek of a dead pig in the summer. I don’t know how Mab can stand it.” Clenching my fists, I tried to keep my cool. I was so not in the mood for this now.God, it’s like high school all over again. Will it never end? These are ancient faeries, for Pete’s sake, and they’re acting like my high school pom squad. ↗

— Julie Kagawa

#meghan #snowberry #high-school

In my ten years of teaching I’ve noticed that teachers tend to have a bad habit of talking to themselves. I hypothesize that this is because we talk for a living, and we feel safe speaking our feelings aloud. Or it could be that most of us, especially the high school teacher variety, are just weird as shit. ↗

— P.C. Cast

#high-school

literary comfort-food down ↗

— Stephen King

#food

There are at least four distinct lines of proof in the Bible that the Holy Spirit is a person. ↗

— R.A. Torrey

#holy-spirit

Yet Jesus never measured His life by how or where He was of the greatest use. God places His saints where they will bring the most glory to Him, and we are totally incapable of judging where that may be. ↗

— Oswald Chambers

#life

Love isn’t meant to be hidden away and life is too short for shame. ↗

— Jay Bell

#life

I had them all fooled into believing I was normal and well-adjusted, a rock of sensibility who could always be counted on to have a positive attitude. ↗

— Sara Zarr

#attitude

There are two ways,” he told me, “and they are love and not love. I choose love. ↗

— Tony Jones

#love

But really, it was reading that led me to writing. And in particular, reading the American classics like Twain who taught me at an early age that ordinary lives of ordinary people can be made into high art. ↗

— Russell Banks

#american #art #classics #early #early age