"I had not found resource teaching particularly fulfilling. I had missed the contained-classroom setting. I missed not having my own group of children. But by far the most, I missed the eerie joy I always felt working with the emotionally disturbed." Chapter 1, Page 11

"Before I could say more, Boo broke my grasp. One frenetic whirl around the room. Over a char, around a bookcase, across the wide middle area I had cleared. To the door. And out." Torey describing her initial meeting with Boo, Chapter 1, Page 13

"I've been in the business for a long time now, and believe me, you get so you can tell who's going to make it and who isn't. I just cannot understand spending all the extra time and money on these little slowies who'll never amount to anything." Edna Thorsen, Chapter 3, Page 34

"The time spent within the walls of my classroom had formed...