John GreenI hadn’t been in proper school in three years. My parents were my two best friends. My third best friend was an author who did not know I existed.
About This Quote
The author has chosen to use the word proper to describe his school. It is a word that people use to describe the way they know something is correct. Proper describes this particular author is someone who knows how to write and is comfortable with doing so. If anything is proper, it means that it is the most correct thing in the world.
So this author has decided to perch on his own idea of what is right. The author, you see, had not been in proper school for three years. That means he was not in school at all during those three years.
He was not attending school but rather staying home and writing. This author may also have said that he was his two best friends, using the term best friend as a synonym for best person. This really means that he considers his parents as his two best friends.
And thus, he has no problem with saying he was not in school during those three years because of his parents being his two best friends.
Source: The Fault In Our Stars
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