A Boy I Once Knew Quotes

“When you're a teacher, some students burst out at you immediately, most emerge gradually, and a few don't want you to see them at all.”
― Elizabeth Stone, A Boy I Once Knew: What a Teacher Learned from her Student

“In all the photos I see the boy I once knew and the man he became, a flawed but decent man whom I grew to care about in a more complicated way than I had ever cared about the boy.”
― Elizabeth Stone, A Boy I Once Knew: What a Teacher Learned from her Student

“I think what Vincent wanted was for me to find him in his words, even between the lines. Then he wanted me to write him a story he could live in just as I had once told him I might.”
― Elizabeth Stone, A Boy I Once Knew: What a Teacher Learned from her Student