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“I had not expected the gentle, tentative surge of gratitude I began to feel...for St. Paul's School, the spring, and the early morning. I needed the morning light and the warbling birds. I needed to find a way to live in this place for a moment and get the good of it. I had tried to hold myself apart, and the aloneness proved more terrible than what I had tried to escape.”

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Book:Black Ice: A Memoir

Source: Black Ice: A Memoir

“Teachers refused to punish me, which is another way of saying that they refused to look after me.”

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Book:Notes on a Silencing: A Memoir

Source: Notes on a Silencing: A Memoir