The Academy Quotes

“It’s better to be yourself and have no friends than to be like your friends and have no self.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Academy

“It’s better to be yourself and have no friends than to be like your friends and have no self.” The”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Academy

“If you leave yourself open to learning about the world and other people”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Academy

“up like that teacher who went to jail for sleeping with her student.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Academy

“The song changes to “Perfect” by Ed Sheeran,”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Academy

“Ruth teaches third- and fourth-form English as well as a senior elective called Boarding School Lit, which has a waiting list every year because who wouldn’t want to spend a semester reading The Starboard Sea and Prep?”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Academy

“She discovered a new word on TikTok: limerence. It means “an intense desire for someone, marked by intrusive thoughts and a desire for a relationship and reciprocation.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Academy

“You’re too good for him, Mom,” Charley says. “You’re a fully formed adult with a successful business and a home and an awesome daughter.” Charley reaches across the table for her mother’s hand. “You’ve given Joey this whole life that he never would have had. I can’t believe he’d be stupid enough to cheat on you.” Charley can totally believe it. Trash takes itself out.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Academy

“Mr. Rivera has finally finished with the old white dudes; he’s assigned Coleman Hill by Kim Coleman Foote. The book is a brilliant novelization of the author’s family history from the Great Migration to the 1980s.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Academy

“The poor fourth-form—or sophomores, as they’re known elsewhere—are probably the most overlooked class at Tiffin. They aren’t upperclassmen, nor are they ingenues like the third-form. Cordelia smiles at the girls, though she can’t recall a single one by name, and how is that possible when she would have interviewed at least some of them?”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Academy

“Erin Morgenstern or Emily St. John Mandel or Sally Rooney,”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Academy

“The Plot by Jean Hanff Korelitz, Nightbitch by Rachel Yoder, Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Academy

“Limerence,”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Academy

“I figure if I present my authentic self, my people will find me.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Academy

“I’ve been wondering what the universe is trying to tell me, and I’ve decided it’s this: I’m built to survive whatever comes my way. It’s also taught me to practice gratitude for each day I’m given. I’m lucky to be here.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Academy

“But a truly fine education teaches the students to be curious, to ask questions, to augment their understanding of the world around them and feel at ease in it.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Academy

“I wouldn’t have made it without Sarah Cannova, Jenny Danielson (none of us would have made it without Jenny),”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Academy

“Freedom of the press… means the freedom to criticize and oppose, Charley thinks. George Orwell.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Academy

“crucible,” Mr. Rivera tells them, is “a test designed to bring about change or reveal an individual’s true character.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Academy