“...your zeal to face life's rough and tumble, your ardor to accept the responsibilities of adulthood is hardly congruent with the aspirations of most graduate students...' He shook his head of disagreeable hair. 'I need not tell you,' he deplored, sinking to paralipsis, 'that there resides in almost every one of 'em the unconscious desire not to grow up. For once the academic goal is attained and the doctorate irradicably abbreviated after the name, the problem of facing the world is confronted. The subtlest, most unremitting drive of the student is his unconscious proclivity to postpone the acceptance of responsibility as long as possible.” SchoolStudentGraduatePage 49 Author:Millard Kaufman
“If I could find one, I would cover the bark with her name the way I used to cover her hand with mine on the Hill.” Ally CondieCrossedPage 49 Book:Crossed Source: Crossed