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“I told you a long time ago—you’re it for me, Gracie Elizabeth. I’m going to marry you one day.��

Pleasure heats my cheeks. Logan’s not the most romantic man on the planet, but when he does express his feelings, he doesn’t do it halfway.

“Who says I want to marry you?�� I tip my head in challenge.

“Don’t you dare pretend we’re not forever.”
― Elle Kennedy, The Legacy

“It’s college,�� Charlotte says with a shrug. “‘Smart but a bad influence�� describes like half the student body.”
― Tracy Deonn, Legendborn

“So here I am, snuggling a toilet in a shared college bathroom, purging all of this semester's mistakes in a sweaty, tearful, pathetic display of human indecency.”
― Margot Wood, Fresh

“School rewards with a certificate; nature rewards with enlightenment.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Song of a Nature Lover

“It's not good for one's view of human nature, that's for sure. You begin to see, when invitations are coming from festivals and colleges to come read (for an hour for a hefty sum of money), that the institutions are head-hunting for trophy writers. Most don't particularly care about your writing or what you're trying to say. You're there as a human object, one that has won a prize.”
― Annie Proulx

“Our teachers forgot to mention that by throwing our tassels in the air, we throw every shit anyone can ever give about us. The world says it cares, but it goes ahead and does something different. I wish we weren’t cared for later than we’re supposed to be cared for. It's like: 'You graduated college. There’s no way you have any trace of still being a scared child. Oh, you fucked up? Here’s a jail cell.”
― Karl Kristian Flores, The Goodbye Song

“We pushed the bike down past the various college hangouts and cafeterias and looked into Robbie's to see if we knew anybody. Alvah was in there, working his part-time job
as busboy. Japhy and I were kind of outlandish-looking on the campus in our old clothes in fact Japhy was considered an eccentric around the campus, which is the usual thing for campuses and college people to think whenever a real man appears on the scene-colleges being nothing but grooming schools for the middleclass nonidentity which usually finds its perfect expression on the outskirts of the campus in rows of well-to-do houses with lawns and television sets in each living room with everybody looking at the same thing and thinking the same thing at the same time while the Japhies of the world go prowling in the wilderness to hear the voice crying in the wilderness, to find the ecstasy of the stars, to find the dark mysterious secret of the origin of faceless wonderless crapulous civilization.”
― Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums

“I’m a person who saves things. I’ll hold on forever.”
― Jenny Han, Always and Forever, Lara Jean

“Selin, quello che le tue parole mi comunicano è una cosa molto semplice, molto naturale: la paura della competizione e la paura del rifiuto da parte dei tuoi coetanei. Ovviamente alle superiori sarai stata tra le più brillanti della classe. Poi arrivi a Harvard, ed ecco milleseicento ragazzi della tua età che sono altrettanto brillanti; alcuni magari anche più di te. In ogni conversazione con i tuoi coetanei trovi un sottotesto di competizione. Hai paura che stavolta non sarai all'altezza, che verrai rifiutata.”
― Elif Batuman, The Idiot

“A happy mind is a learning mind.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“I wasn't a genius in the end, but a girl could still hope.”
― Weike Wang, Joan Is Okay

“I majored in insanity.”
― Steven Magee

“The future of higher education will be micro-degrees becoming the norm with people choosing a focused micro-degree rather than a full 4-year degree. 4-Year degrees will focus on a hybrid model, with core requirements being on-line and only one’s major will be in-class.”
― Tom Golway

“Even though I'm trying hard not to let it show, I want to swim past the breakers, and sink to the bottom and stay there with my eyes closed and the water covering my ears.

And yes, I know that's an overreaction. When you read this you'll think "Mom, please. Really?" You'll roll your eyes in that carefree way of yours and shrug those rebellious bangs off your forehead. You'll offer the one-sided smirk that says "you and I are the weird ones in the family - the two that always get each other's hidden meanings".

Only this time, you don't get it. You can't. You won't for another 25 or 30 years - until you lie on the sand, or sit in a stadium seat somewhere or stand at your kitchen stove and catch a glimpse of your first born, your baby, suddenly inhabiting the body of an adult. Someone you barely recognize. In that instant, you'll think "how did this happen? When did this happen? Have I taught enough? Have I listened enough? Have I coached and planned and laughed and worried enough? Can I let go enough?"

I'm afraid I won't be able to do it gracefully when the moment comes. I'm not ready. It's too soon. Instead of compiling pictures for a tasteful collage to make your dorm room homey, I want to climb inside the photos and live them again. Every bedtime story, lost tooth, birthday cake, backyard campout, ballgame, wildflower bouquet, rainy day and homemade Mothers Day card. All the golden moments and all the quiet, ordinary ones. I'd treasure them even more the second time around. If only life came with a rewind button, with do overs.”
― Lisa Wingate, Tending Roses

“These are the years of lonely nights. There may be no one to talk to for years other than a notebook, a dead role model, a pet, a lamp post, or just your sad footsteps scraping against pavement. This doesn’t make sense, but it will.”
― Karl Kristian Flores, The Goodbye Song

“The problem with college students is that they come into university not knowing what they love, but are handed vocabulary and concepts about their chosen passion, which equips them with rich arguments and rich words that end up fooling people they love something when they are really just passionate about someone else’s passion. Sometimes, people use knowledge as a seat belt to strap themselves in a car that they weren’t supposed to be in. They hold onto mission statements or causes and regurgitate ideas with such great articulation that you (and they) could almost believe they really loved their careers.”
― Karl Kristian Flores, The Goodbye Song

“Leadership means empowering others to be their best.”
― Aviva Legatt, Get Real and Get In

“Laughing, Mabel told him to get in and that she'd be happy to give him a lift.

“I'm quite heavy," George deadpanned. "Are you sure I won't hurt you?"

Their eyes met and without any hesitation at all, Mabel declared “Positive."

It was only a moment, only an nth of a second, but something profound seemed to pass between them. It was as though a seed took root in her heart and burst forth through her soul.”
― Stefanie Hutcheson, The Adventures of George and Mabel: Based on an Almost (Kind of? Sort of? Could Be?) True Story

“degree for sale”
― allexamscertificates.com

“I graduated from college in the spring with a history degree, only to discover that there are no jobs for someone with my specialty. We've all decided being doomed to repeat history is fine, I guess.”
― Gwenda Bond, Not Your Average Hot Guy

“You’re objecting to the free exchange of ideas at a place of learning.”
― Vincent H. O'Neil, A Pause in the Perpetual Rotation

“By the time I returned to campus, however, the students were of a new breed, not interested in politics or the world like the previous generation. Their tender eyes were no longer exposed daily to stories and pictures of atrocity and terror for which they might have felt responsible, given that they were citizens of a democracy destroying another country in order to save it.”
― Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Sympathizer

“Passed NCLEX without studying”
― allexamscertificates.com

“NCLEX exam without going to nursing school”
― allexamscertificates.com

“Buy valid and genuine NCLEX-RN and NCLEX-PN certificate license without taking the text”
― allexamscertificates.com

“Yuletide Unburdening by Stewart Stafford

Fading embers of the final Christmas test,
No more the frantic angst of dawn,
Now it is poised last-minute checks,
And then the flushing of responsibility.

A fortnight of relaxation and merriment,
Awaits the temporarily-exonerated inmate,
Though it means entering the bruising storm,
Bartered freedom a passenger and guide home.

Cross the draughty, great hall, and finish line,
Whispered submission of completed exam papers,
And the old year's prescribed work is done,
Then outside, leaving others to their stress.”
― Stewart Stafford

“Working for the Ivy League was a bad career choice.”
― Steven Magee

“La necessità che sentiamo
l’uno per l’altra
è diventata incontrollabile.
Entrambi affamati d’amore,
continuiamo a nutrirci riempiendoci
di vita e passione.
Ma non basta mai.
Ne vogliamo sempre di più.
Ogni giorno, ogni istante.”
― Mag Scrittrice, BAD STARS 1 - Chi è il vero cattivo?

“Time management is not just about how to obtain more time (if you want to do that, you might as well buy a few clocks off Amazon). Rather, time management is about how to make the most of your time.”
― Joel B. Randall, Study, Sleep, Repeat: 130 Tips to Schedule Your College Life

“Going to college without putting your heart into it is like setting the microwave for thirty minutes and forgetting to put food in—you use all the same energy with none of the results.”
― Joel B. Randall, Study, Sleep, Repeat: 130 Tips to Schedule Your College Life