John Niven Quotes

As For School, Well, The Only Kids Who Read Books For Pleasure, Who Read Outside Of When A Teacher Was Literally Standing Over Them In The Classroom, Were The Freaks. The Kids Like ... Like Him. Docherty. The Professor. Strange And Unexpected Then When I Discovered Under Mr Cardew's Encouragement That What Seemed To Me To Be Tracts Of Boredom And Torture Actually Contained Un Imaginable Vistas, Entire Worlds Of Escape. (And You Were Much In Need Of Escape Then, Weren't You?) That You Could Open One Of Them And Start Turning The Pages And That, Instead Of Time Slowing Down And Refusing To Pass, You Would Look Up At The Clock (that Clock, In Its Mesh Cage) And The Deadly, Endless Afternoon Ahead Of You Would Have Vanished.

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