We tilt our heads back and open wide. The snow drifts into our zombie mouths crawling with grease and curses and tobacco flakes and cavities and boyfriend/girlfriend juice, the stain of lies. For one moment we are not failed tests and broken condoms and cheating...
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Laurie Halse Anderson
The teachers complain that the students today are all lazy, ignorant, and stupid. But the truth is that you're smarter than they are. You're not even old enough to drive and you already know that none of this matters.
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Charles Benoit
I'd had nearly four years of experience looking at these clocks, but their sluggishness never ceased to surprise. If I am ever told that I have one day to live, I will head straight to the hallowed halls of Winter Park High School, where a...
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John Green
I told her about school and how I sat on a wall there and felt stories and words move through me ...
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Markus Zusak
The kind of teacher who never learned anything herself. Or taught anything, except sarcasm or fear.
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Tanith Lee
More Quotes By Sally Ride
When you're getting ready to launch into space, you're sitting on a big explosion waiting to happen.
The stars don't look bigger, but they do look brighter.
So most astronauts getting ready to lift off are excited and very anxious and worried about that explosion - because if something goes wrong in the first seconds of launch, there's not very much you can do.
But even in elementary school and junior high, I was very interested in space and in the space program.
No, I think most astronauts recognize that the space shuttle program is very high-risk, and are prepared for accidents.
