College Life Quotes

“Self learner; reading.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

“I always thought I caught you in . . . a phase. His left eyebrow makes a fancy arch. Apparently you're just like this.”
― Christina Lauren, Josh and Hazel's Guide to Not Dating

“This was the math she ran every night, every moment. How much time to try to get the work done? How much time to rest? She could never quite make the numbers work. She was always just scraping by, stretching the budget, always coming up a little short, and the panic clung to her, dogging her steps.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ninth House

“This was their dream time, the magical early days of fall semester, the happy haze of meeting once again, old friendships rekindling in firefly sparks before the real work of the year began.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Hell Bent

“I get through the first few weeks of college without dropping out, but that's only because I don't want to deal with Dad whining about it for the next twenty years.”
― A.L. Graziadei, Icebreaker

“Making people happy makes me feel good. If anything, it gives me more energy for the people I care about.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl

“I wouldn't think of leaving college. It's just that I feel so sad these wonderful nights. I sort of feel they're never coming again, and I'm not really getting all I could out of them.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

“I got scared and I backed her into a corner. She was going through something, and I didn’t give her space to feel that. I was thinking about myself.”
― Bolu Babalola, Honey & Spice

“The wet raincoat smell was exciting, carrying with it remotely the institutional smells of the college, a faint echo of a cologne Natalie had never worn in her life; near the pocket was a cigarette burn she had not made; the raincoat was in itself a symbol of going and coming, of wishing and fearing, or, precisely, the going out of a warm, firelit house into the heartbreaking cold.”
― Shirley Jackson, Hangsaman

“You used me. You Ade me feel special then you threw me away when you were bored. You took my trust. You broke my trust. You turned people against me. You turned me against myself.”
― Faith Dismuke

“The teacher should not assume that he/she is always correct, or try to make the worst cases appear reasonable before his pupils. On the other hand, the teacher should accept the corrections as much as they love to do it to others.”
― Mwanandeke Kindembo, Treatise Upon The Misconceptions of Narcissism

“If there's a violent mob on campus, it isn't Ben Shapiro's fault - he's just someone coming to campus to talk about ideas. Mob violence is the mob's fault”
― Dennis Prager, No Safe Spaces

“Hampden College, as a body, was always strangely prone to hysteria. Whether from isolation, malice, or simple boredom, people there were far more credulous and excitable than educated people are generally believed to be, and this hermetic, overheated atmosphere made it a thriving black petri dish of melodrama and distortion. I remember well, for instance, the blind animal terror which ensued when some townie set off the civil defense sirens as a joke. Someone said it was a nuclear attack; TV and radio reception, never good there in the mountains, happened to be particularly bad that night, and in the ensuing stampede for the telephones the switchboard shorted out, plunging the school into a violent and almost unimaginable panic. Cars collided in the parking lot. People screamed, wept, gave away their possessions, huddled in small groups for comfort and warmth. Some hippies barricaded themselves in the Science Building, in the lone bomb shelter, and refused to let anyone in who didn't know the words to 'Sugar Magnolia'. Factions formed, leaders rose from the chaos. Though the world, in fact, was not destroyed, everyone had a marvelous time and people spoke fondly of the event for years afterward.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“A college is a place one can never forget.”
― Shakil Kamboh

“It doesn't matter if they laugh at you or with you, the important thing is you made them laugh.”
― Julianne Schrader, If It's Wet and Not Yours, Don't Touch It: Lessons Learned Working in College Housing

“Who’s to say there’s only one person for each of us? There’s too much of the world I want to see and experience.
-Connie Spanhake”
― Connie Spanhake, Finding Me

“Very few will ever revel in the consequences of their actions when the results lead to their demise. Especially if the end game is a total bust!”
― Carlos Wallace, Life is not Complicated, You Are

“500+ contacts, 100+ friends..!
30+ close friends..!
But, still, I dial,
Those 9 numbers..!
When I need to,
Share my heart..!
When I need to,
See my besties...!”
― Nayan Kasturi

“Vassar was like all colleges in the 1960s: a scene of deep friendships, love, booze, dope, sex, music, and politics.”
― Rebecca Eaton, Making Masterpiece: 25 Years Behind the Scenes at Masterpiece Theatre and Mystery! on PBS

“Why is this so important to you?" I asked, looking her straight in the eyes.
"Why isn't this important to you?" she asked back, never blinking.”
― T.S. Krupa, The Ten Year Reunion

“College life is a critical life. One should be careful in this life. It is the foundation of one’s career/life.”
― Dr Sivakumar Gowder

“Time management is not just about how to obtain more time (if you want to do that, you might as well buy a few clocks off Amazon). Rather, time management is about how to make the most of your time.”
― Joel B. Randall, Study, Sleep, Repeat: 130 Tips to Schedule Your College Life

“Of course college felt extreme," Coop said. "You had infinite freedom and almost no responsibility. Nothing was fixed - you had your whole life ahead of you, and it could go anywhere. You had best friends you spent every minute with, so you were never alone. And you were in love. Real love.”
― Ashley Winstead, In My Dreams I Hold a Knife

“How dare you talk shit about me in my place?"
"This place belongs to the institution, not you." He barked.
"And I pay the institution to call it mine. Look, what business do you have with me?”
― Poppy Havoc, The Drop Dead Darlings

“I love you and I'm gonna get you." She found her resolve strengthening as she spoke. How hard can it be to seduce your Professor?
Haby shook his head with a snort. "You're young, and possibly hormonal." He chuckled, again in an insulting way. "A decade and a half younger. Go kid. Get to Curie before dark."
Kid?
Barti giggled. "I'm kid? But Amara and Cyra aren't?”
― Poppy Havoc, The Drop Dead Darlings

“As days passed, my worldview became a mélange of their arcane narratives, stitched together like a quilt—easy to wrap yourself in but too flimsy to keep you warm.”
― Rafael Moscatel, The Secret Adoption: A Family Memoir

“Behind every smile, there may hide a concealed agenda; not everyone who cheers for you genuinely celebrates your success.”
― Carlos Wallace, Life is not Complicated, You Are

“All students want to do is lecture their professors!”
― Byrd Nash, Ghost Talker

“It is in the imperative, inescapable, overwhelming demand that the victim be blamed and that you blame yourself with her. It is in the imperative, inescapable, overwhelming demand to exonerate the murdered at all costs. One does not learn to be silent: one is forced to shut up. One is forcibly silenced.”
― Cristina Rivera Garza, Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice

“I didn't think I could trust love again. My
faith in love was shattered. But then I met you and once again my stone heart started to melt, you made me to believe in love again.”
― Mustakim Shakil Khan, The Day I Met You