Alone in the Classroom Quotes

“And when is it ever convincing, the belief others have in your abilities? You know perfectly well they can't see the mess inside you.”
― Elizabeth Hay, Alone in the Classroom

“A child lies like a grey pebble on the shore until a certain teacher picks him up and dips him in water, and suddenly you see all the colours and patterns in the dull stone, and it’s marvelous for the stone and marvelous for the teacher.”
― Elizabeth Hay, Alone in the Classroom

“The older you get, the closer your loves are to the surface. She was breathing rarefied air, the ether you come upon at high altitudes. I understood finally how long-held grievances and petty smallnesses might get burned off, and pure creativity and humour remain.”
― Elizabeth Hay, Alone in the Classroom

“She would always be careful around people like Parley Burns, tricky people who are thin skinned and punitive and intelligent and surprisingly honest.”
― Elizabeth Hay, Alone in the Classroom

“How attraction works, making one's body almost painfully alive and one's thoughts concentrated, also painfully. And the truth of these powerful attractions - they have their own morality and nothing else matters.”
― Elizabeth Hay, Alone in the Classroom

“A child lies like a grey pebble on the shore until a certain teacher picks him up and dips him in water, and suddenly you see all the colours and patterns in the dull stone, and it’s marvellous for the stone and marvellous for the teacher.”
― Elizabeth Hay, Alone in the Classroom