The Gifted School Quotes

“Insidious, these false versions of superiority and ease we project onto other families: how often they blind us to the surer comforts of our own.”
― Bruce Holsinger, The Gifted School

“You’ll be a lot less obsessed with what people think of you when you understand how infrequently they do.”
― Bruce Holsinger, The Gifted School

“A blessing, to know the talents and limitations of those closest to you, what they’re capable of and what they aren’t. One kind of friend who will spend hours sifting through your psyche; another who will sacrifice half a day to scrubbing your toilets.”
― Bruce Holsinger, The Gifted School

“Friends are the siblings God never gave us.”
― Bruce Holsinger, The Gifted School

“It’s a real shame. It’s just not about the kids anymore.”
― Bruce Holsinger, The Gifted School

“Because success in life didn’t just happen. Things didn’t always work out, no matter where or how you were raised.”
― Bruce Holsinger, The Gifted School

“Parents always want to manage the narrative instead of letting kids write their own.” She clapped a hand over her mouth.”
― Bruce Holsinger, The Gifted School

“In chess everyone had a pattern, a tendency. Average human players were invariably predictable. They had grooves in their brains, like furrows in a plowed field out in Beulah County. And the trick to being a great chess player, the masters said, was to be unpredictable. To get out of your groove.”
― Bruce Holsinger, The Gifted School

“He looked down at his hands, as if he had struck her physically with his frankness. Rose”
― Bruce Holsinger, The Gifted School

“It was weird, though, but the new caption didn’t really make Emma Z all that mad. In fact she felt almost proud of Emma Q for stealing so openly from her and thinking she could get away with it. The theft showed a side of Q she’d never seen before. It was sneaky, it was dishonest, and it was almost, like, kind of brave. But Z was going to have to punish her for it anyway.”
― Bruce Holsinger, The Gifted School

“Some people would have said this was because Z’s mother was bossy. She’d heard people say that before, people like Beck and Charlie and even Rose. But being bossy was really just about having sound leadership skills.”
― Bruce Holsinger, The Gifted School

“Gareth could sometimes sound like a goddamn parenting magazine you’d read at the pediatrician’s office.”
― Bruce Holsinger, The Gifted School

“Because if there was one thing Xander hated, it was simplicity.”
― Bruce Holsinger, The Gifted School

“A blessing, to know the talents and limitations of those closest to you, what they’re capable of and what they aren’t.”
― Bruce Holsinger, The Gifted School

“They can be so bitchy and sneaky and competitive sometimes, like about who’s going to more parties or whose kid is busier or whatnot, especially my mom. But even when they’re stabbing each other in the back, they know how to help you through things, you know?”
― Bruce Holsinger, The Gifted School

“Look at me. I’m the worst of all. This is the worst person I have ever been.”
― Bruce Holsinger, The Gifted School