Academy Girls Quotes

“only failures get married, and”
― Nora Carroll, Academy Girls

“To teach in a school where you once were a girl is to come up abruptly and often against reminders of your own mortality. Within each reflection lurks the girl you once were, clouded, marred even, by the woman you have become. I wondered if Miss Pymstead had ever been disappointed. If the look in her eyes that we”
― Nora Carroll, Academy Girls

“There was a name for what I was doing here. It was called a last chance.”
― Nora Carroll, Academy Girls

“Great literature speaks the truth,” she said. “You will recognize it because it is impossible not to recognize it. It sings its own song—it hums with the power of righteousness . . .”
― Nora Carroll, Academy Girls

“Before I slipped Lissa’s take-home exam out”
― Nora Carroll, Academy Girls

“Words once memorized came back to me: the more things stay the same, the more they change. A line among many lines I was led to believe would be worthwhile to remember. But that was a long time ago, when I was a girl in a circle of girls. When all of us believed that words mattered as much as money, flesh, and blood.”
― Nora Carroll, Academy Girls