Dropout Nation Quotes

#1. Slavery has never been abolished from America's way of thinking.

Nina Simone

#2. Sleep was a country for which he could not obtain a visa.

Ann Patchett

#3. The moon is a loyal companion. It

Tahereh Mafi

#4. When they laugh, it sounds like confetti.

Jodi Picoult

#5. There is a limit to one's capacity for rows, you know. There comes a time when you're only too ready to sacrifice something for a quiet life.

Josephine Tey

#6. I like to surprise people. I try to take risks.

Carine Roitfeld

#7. Ministry is about joining God where God can be found.

Andrew Root

#8. Swear you'd rather die than use 'literally' as an intensifier.

Teju Cole

#9. I won't be going to any New Year's Eve parties because I think they're naff. No one over the age of 15 should bother going to parties.

Julie Burchill

#10. How did you decide when someone was irretrievably lost - when they were so evil or toxic or just plain set in their ways that you had to face the fact they were never going to change? How long could you keep trying to save them, and when did you give up and grieve for them as though they were dead?

Rick Riordan

#11. There is an inevitable divergence between the world as it is and the world as men perceive it.

J. William Fulbright

#12. You are real! Everyone has to be different or the world would be really boring. If we all looked the same, then no one could tell us apart. -Janelle

Tara Michener

#13. Blackwater USA has already taken in more than $1 billion from the public coffers. All in all, that's not a bad take for Erik Prince, the founder of Blackwater and a Naval Academy dropout who served less time under the colors of the nation, in uniform, than my most recent pair of boots.

Robert Bateman

#14. You celebrated the small victories, and you dreamed of the big ones to come.

Charlie Jane Anders