The stories my pupils told me were astonishing. One told how he had witnessed his cousin being shot in the back five times; another how his parents had died of AIDS. Another said that he'd probably been to more funerals than parties in his young life. For me - someone who had had an idyllic, happy childhood - this was staggering.
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Related One of (the victims) was underneath his desk. He had been shot numerous times. Another was a young l... TOM O'REILLY I was shaking in my boots. I told him, 'Michael. I'm 71 years old. I've had this house for 39 years.... CAROL REBELLO I was shaking in my boots. I told him, 'Michael. I'm 71 years old. I've had this house for 39 years.... CAROL S. REBELLO He told police he had an argument with his girlfriend, he was in despair, ... This defendant was try... FRED KLEIN He told me he was in his hotel, had chest pains, the normal symptoms. The hotel arranged for an ambu... MICHAEL BROWN Richard Gansey III had forgotten how many times he had been told he was destined for greatness. MAGGIE STIEFVATER My father had kicked me out of his house at the height of an argument over an opinion difference. He... LYNETTE FROMME Bono told me how to dance in high heels and he also told me about U2's Glastonbury performance a... 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JARED ESALA One of the first coaches I worked with on the national team told me that I was too skinny, too puny,... VICTORIA PENDLETON He had dreamed of playing there his whole life. He told me right after the game he was the happiest ... BEN WOODSIDE No, it had never been like this for him before, with anyone. Of all the women he’d known, she was ... J.D. ROBB My dad said, 'The thing that I was told that was really helpful was that I mustn't be afraid... TOM HOOPER The worst was relizing that I’d lost him for nothing because he’d been rght about all of it-- va... CLAUDIA GRAY He simply told me that they had decided to give the sponsorship to another company. I asked him (who... DAVID KINSMAN I told him angrily that I had been in front-line combat for over five months and no one would let me... GEORGE WILSON He came in my office one day and had this sheepish look on his face, like there was something on his... JEFF PYLE He was in agony the whole time. I wasn't even aware of it, he just told me. I knew he had back probl... ED MCCOMISKEY My mother told me many stories about her childhood in Cuba. Living there had a profound impact on he... RACHEL KUSHNER He died sober. He died clean for the rest of his life. He ended his life the way we wanted him to be... WALLIS HUTCHKO Couples saw me and pointed out I was wearing an Ashworth shirt. They (Ashworth) are one of his spons... DONATHON STOVER My mother told me Homer Ditto was not my father. Nope. Mom had had a fling with some other guy who w... BETH DITTO You had to suffer shipwreck through your own efforts before you were ready to seize the lifebelt he ... EUGEN HERRIGEL J.J. had one of the great performances here. Are you kidding me? I'm not sure how many times he hit ... MIKE KRZYZEWSKI His mind drifted back to times past. He missed the companionship of his old pack. He had grown up in... ALAN KINROSS I was told stories, we were all told stories as kids in Nigeria. We had to tell stories that would k... BEN OKRI You see, I was told stories, we were all told stories as kids in Nigeria. We had to tell stories tha... BEN OKRI I remember my father checking on a mountain kid who hadn't been coming to school. My father had ... CHARLES FRAZIER Aerric took another sip of his whiskey as his manservant left the room. His thoughts had distracted ... BRYNN MYERS If someone had told me in high school that one day I'd write an historical novel, I would have r... NANCY HORAN Just the other day he told me Dougie Walters had phoned. I thought, 'that's good' and he said, 'yeah... DENNIS LILLEE Greg had told me on the ride over that there was another organisation called SLAA, which stood for S... DREW NELLINS SMITH It was a cold morning, and he shivered a little; but he had been taught by his uncle that his prayer... W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM Probably more than anybody else, I loved Nat 'King' Cole as a performer - not only his singi... BRUCE FORSYTH My father always taught by telling stories about his experiences. His lessons were about morality an... WALTER MOSLEY They were kids [black and white] who had never been in touching distance of each other and knew noth... HERMAN BOONE Harry had been picturing his parents’ deaths over and over again for three years now, ever since h... J.K. ROWLING The knowledge that he had left me with no intent ever to return had come over me in tiny droplets of... ROBIN HOBB His right hemisphere had died. He knew so many people who had died that in his present state of diss... IAN MCEWAN What a surreal sensation, being back here, being treated like he was still the boy who had left for ... BRANDON SANDERSON I had a long and positive chat with Jason this morning when he told me of his decision, CLIVE WOODWARD When they told me it was Israel, I was shocked. The thing that hits me so hard is I hadn't realized ... FRANK DURANT His question reminded me of how easy he had been to deceive, so easy that he seemed to me almost a c... GRAHAM GREENE I was really proactive in trying to heal my family. I wouldn't give up. My whole life was about ... SOPHIE B. HAWKINS When I was 14, my dad came home one day and told us he had cancer. It was looking pretty bad. And I ... JEFFREY SKOLL I never even heard of him or met him in my life. But when I got downstairs, he said, 'I've been wait... HAL TURNER Julian was always trying to convince her that E.T. had already visited Earth multiple times. One nig... MALINDA LO No one had ever told me that whites were supposed to sing one kind of music and blacks another - I s... CHARLEY PRIDE In my relationship with a young guy I was going with in a band - his name was Sylvester, and I think... BARBARA LYNN He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his readi... JOHN AUBREY He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his readi... ISAAC ASIMOV My grandpa didn't believe in hugging and kissing, or saying "I love you." His love had to do with th... BILL COSBY He's had that in the back of his mind ever since he was a freshman. And I knew going into this year ... TIM ATWELL I remembered his older brother, who had died in Sicily, in battle for the free world- he had barely ... JAMES BALDWIN Two years before, the man had ended my reign. I had been the semel of a tribe of werepanthers, leade... MARY CALMES I have a strong memory of the day I was told that my father had a weak heart and that he had to go t... ALAN J. HEEGER How strange, Royce thought, that, after emerging victorious from more than a hundred real battles, t... JUDITH MCNAUGHT It was shocking because his mother called me and told me he was in a terrible accident. I didn't kno... LEE FISHER I know someone young whose husband left her for another woman. He later came back and wanted to reki... ALICIA VILLARREAL Well, we were always going to fail that one," said Ron gloomily as they ascended the marble staircas... J.K. ROWLING Although Salinger had long since cut me out of his life completely and made it plain that he had not... JOYCE MAYNARD Someone called all the newspapers in New York and told them I'd died. I've been told by almo... RICHARD PRYOR And Harry saw very clearly as he sat there under the hot sun how people who cared about him had stoo... J.K. ROWLING He had more velocity on his fastball, his changeup was slower, and he had sharper breaking stuff, ..... TODD PRATT He just said he was so sorry that he had that on his record. He just wanted to clear his record befo... FRANKIE HARRIS As she shuffled back, he glanced down at the tent between his legs. Christ, that goddamn thing in th... J.R. WARD He sold Dr. Simons one of his dove mirrors that he had made for his office and gave me a hug. Later ... KAY VAUGHAN And Harry remembered his first nightmarish trip into the forest, the first time he had ever encounte... J.K. ROWLING They were talking more distantly than if they were strangers who had just met, for if they had been ... W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM I had moments with my father that were exquisite - the stories he told me about Cuchulain, the mytho... FRANK MCCOURT My father had taught me - mostly by example - that if a man wanted to be in charge of his life, he h... STEPHEN KING This is a miracle. I always wondered if he had been shot down ... or if his plane had gone down in t... FRED BYRD Feast of the Conversion of Paul The God of Pharisaism was like the God of the Deists, He stood al... C. H. DODD When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed ... WINSTON CHURCHILL He remembered Tessa weeping in his arms in Paris, and thinking that he had never known the loss she ... CASSANDRA CLARE One thing led to another and I didn't have to take tickets any more because I now worked for Mr.... GLENN FORD They were told by the Army that his body had been recovered. JAY GALLAGHER His very existence was improbable, inexplicable, and altogether bewildering. He was an insoluble pro... JOSEPH CONRAD He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his readi... JOHN AUBREY Dr. Flint had sworn that he would make me suffer, to my last day, for this new crime against him, as... HARRIET ANN JACOBS My brother called me yesterday to say he had to pick up our boat and go fish my cousin out of his ho... MARC BROUSSARD He told me that when we first met, he had said to a friend about me: “If I get that girl’s numbe... KIMBERLY NOVOSEL When I was 15, I begged my grandfather to give me this guitar he'd always had in the back of his... VALERIE JUNE I told him his account of the incident did not match what others who had witnessed it had told. You ... FRED DAVIS They were tough and sour, but as Pushkin said, 'Dearer to us than a host of truths is an exalting il... ANTON CHEKHOV He had the gun in the back pocket of his jeans. That made me scared. GLORIA LOPEZ My brother wouldn't let me just throw it back to him. He taught me how to long snap, and he told me ... ETHAN ALBRIGHT That will solve nothing, my lord.” His wife strode into the kitchen, stiff pride shining in her ey... MARY WINE I went through my first big breakup, with a boyfriend who I had been with for more than two years. H... CHRISTINA AGUILERA Someone asked me...how it felt and I was reminded of a story that a fellow townsman of ours used to ... ADLAI E. STEVENSON II They called to let me know that Jay had been involved in another bombing and that another young man ... CARLA THURIN (On WWI:) A man of importance had been shot at a place I could not pronounce in Swahili o... BERYL MARKHAM He's never threatened me, but told the neighborhood how he dislikes me. I've let it go. I have not b... BOB MARGOLIS
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ERIN HEALY Part of the joy and pleasure of English is its boundless creativity: I can describe a new machine as... ERIN MCKEAN I think there's been a major shift in grass roots media because of the Internet and because the ... ERIN GRAY I have previously been a very enthusiastic consumer, and I didn't think about the origins of gar... ERIN O'CONNOR I think there is some resistance when people talk about ethical fashion, and a tendency to panic tha... ERIN O'CONNOR My favorite memory from school was going to football games with my friends. We always had so much sp... ERIN HEATHERTON I've never been a girly-girl, never drawn to things that are fussy. ERIN WASSON I'm passionate about being true to myself, sending good energy to the people around me, travelin... ERIN WASSON My style has been nurtured over time. It's more about knowing what doesn't suit you. I love ... ERIN O'CONNOR Obviously as I'm getting older, I'm seeing changes in my body that I may not like... but I d... ERIN ANDREWS There are great slender models, great tall models, Amazonian models, great busty models - my point i... ERIN O'CONNOR I suppose.” Mousefur sniffed. “No doubt it’ll be up to me to teach them manners. Kits nowadays... ERIN HUNTER Food tastes better when you wear it! ERIN DEALEY The older I get, the more I like the idea of utilitarianism. I think that I'm not a trend-driven... ERIN WASSON Uniforms are intended to make the wearer look as strong as possible. Soldiers could fight in leotard... ERIN MCKEAN You can limit the number of invitations to an in-person fashion show, but you can't police the I... ERIN MCKEAN I wanted you to have a place where you felt safe enough to cry if I could not be with you. ERIN MORGENSTERN firestar: jayfeather what does mallow look like? jayfeather: i dont know, ive never seen any ERIN HUNTER There will be three cats, kin of your kin, with the power of the stars in their paws. They will find... ERIN HUNTER We're going to investigate," Fireheart meowed. "We can't decide how to get rid of these dogs until w... ERIN HUNTER My head is so full of memories!" Cinderheart wailed. "I feel as though there are two lives inside me... ERIN HUNTER He was desperate to tell his news to some other cat; he almost felt that if a mouse crossed his path... ERIN HUNTER Birchfall lapped at his wound "You're not very sympathetic for a medicine cat" "I'm here to HEAL you... ERIN HUNTER I am Midnight (cats stare dumbfounded) ERIN HUNTER Bluestar blinked. "There are cats who would argue that there should never have been a fifth Clan in ... ERIN HUNTER My name is Echo. I dream of cats with stars in their fur. ERIN HUNTER I'm not going to get myself hurt." I'm too important to let that happen. ~Jaypaw ERIN HUNTER You may tell a tale that takes up residence in someone's soul, becomes their blood and self and purp... ERIN MORGENSTERN I have two curiosity cabinets at home filled with finds from jumble sales, markets and my travels. M... ERIN O'CONNOR Puppies and kittens are both great. Cats and dogs are not for me. ERIN FOSTER My favourite beauty look is definitely '70s beauty - sun kissed skin, wavy hair and defined eyes... ERIN HEATHERTON My style is simple, kinda girly, but with a bit of an edge. ERIN HEATHERTON People say jargon is a bad thing, but it's really a shortcut vocabulary professionals use to und... ERIN MCKEAN I don't think there's anything wrong being a dreamer. ERIN MORGENSTERN The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday ... ERIN MORGENSTERN