David Minger

“the outside air was so hot and so humid it felt like you were the meat in a sandwich whose bread was the Devil’s moist thighs”
― Chuck Wendig, Wanderers

“Everyone knew the real reason discipline numbers looked good: Mrs. Rawlins was the assistant principal in charge of discipline, and she rarely enforced any actual consequences. This not only kept suspension numbers low, it also meant few teachers bothered to fill out referral forms in the first place—and these were the two ways the district calculated discipline numbers. It was, of course, these same two tendencies that caused actual student behavior at the school to skid downhill, but this was no time to make changes to the one set of numbers that felt assured.”
― Roxanna Elden, Adequate Yearly Progress

“The chance to escape from Brae Hill Valley had afforded her a new lightness that extended to every part of her life.”
― Roxanna Elden, Adequate Yearly Progress

“You didn’t change anyone’s mind about politics by hammering away at them—all that did was drive the nail deeper into the wall of their own certainty.”
― Chuck Wendig, Wanderers