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There is a hideous invention called the Dewey Decimal System. And you have to look up your topic in books and newspapers. Pages upon pages upon pages…” Uncle Will frowned. “Didn’t they teach you how to go about research

There is a hideous invention called the Dewey Decimal System. And you have to look up your topic in books and newspapers. Pages upon pages upon pages…” Uncle Will frowned. “Didn’t they teach you how to go about research in that school of yours?” “No. But I can recite ‘The Battle Hymn of the Republic’ while making martinis.” “I weep for the future.” “There’s where the martinis come in.

Libba Bray
Uncles, Book, School

I've never done acid, finding it hard to go willingly to a place that could be frightening, hellish, and totally beyond my control. A place much like high school.

Libba Bray
School, Done, Acid
Libba Bray (2009). “Going Bovine”, p.10, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

So much of the literature we had to read for high school English class was filled with victimized, tragic, symbolic women who spurred the plot forward with their inevitable shunning/death/shunning-followed-by-pregnancy-followed-by-death timelines.

Libba Bray
Pregnancy, School, Class

Its so daunting to walk into a classroom or a school auditorium. Its like the worlds weirdest blind date. I know all the students are thinking, Who is this tool standing up in front of us?

Libba Bray
School, Thinking, Tools

Beauty, grace, and charm my foot. It's a school for sadists with good tea-serving skills.

Libba Bray
School, Skills, Feet
Libba Bray (2010). “A Great and Terrible Beauty”, p.55, Simon and Schuster

My platform's called Don't Even Think About It. I go to schools and I say, 'Whatever bad thing it is you're thinking of doing, don't even think about it. 'Cause I can see into your soul, and I will hide in your closet and come for you in the night, and the last sound you ever hear will be my sharp teeth popping through the flesh of my gums, ready to eat you.' Their eyes get all big. It's awesome. I love little kids, man. They're the cutest

Libba Bray
Eye, School, Kids

Sheep. I'm stuck in a boarding school filled with sheep.

Libba Bray
School, Sheep, Stuck
Libba Bray (2010). “A Great and Terrible Beauty”, p.47, Simon and Schuster

Scoring well on tests is the sort of happy thing that gets the school district the greenbacks they crave. Understanding and appreciating the material are secondary.

Libba Bray
School, Appreciate, Understanding
Libba Bray (2009). “Going Bovine”, p.6, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

We're in English class, which for most of us is an excruciating exercise in staying awake through the great classics of literature. These works - groundbreaking, incendiary, timeless - have been pureed by the curriculum monsters into a digestible pabulum of themes and factoids we can spew back on a test. Scoring well on tests is the sort of happy thing that gets the school district the greenbacks they crave. Understanding and appreciating the material are secondary.

Libba Bray
School, Exercise, Class
"Going Bovine". Book by Libba Bray, September 22, 2009.

In school, they would tell you that life wouldn’t come to you; you had to go out and make it your own. But when it came to love, the message for girls seemed to be this: Don’t. Don’t go after what you want. Wait. Wait to be chosen, as if only in the eye of another could one truly find value. The message was confusing and infuriating. It was a shell game with no actual pea under the rapidly moving cups.

Libba Bray
Girl, Moving, School
Libba Bray (2011). “Beauty Queens”, p.148, Scholastic Inc.

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