Sarah Dessen Quotes About High School

Quotes about: High School

• Welcome to adulthood," she said. "It sucks as much as high school.

  Sarah Dessen

  School, Welcome, Said

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “This Lullaby”, p.169, Penguin

• When I was in high school, I was always really envious of those girls who seemed to have everything: the perfect hair, perfect clothes, perfect boyfriend, perfect life. It wasn't until I was older that I realized that nobody's life is perfect, and that those girls probably had a lot of the same problems I did.

  Sarah Dessen

  Girl, School, Hair

  "Author Interview: Sarah Dessen on Just Listen". Interview with Cynthia Leitich Smith, cynthialeitichsmith.blogspot.com. December 12, 2006.

• I was actually kind of a hot mess in high school. I did a lot of things in high school I'm not proud of. I wasn't a good student and I wasn't particularly a good daughter. I wasn't very engaged.

  Sarah Dessen

  Daughter, School, Hot

  "Sarah Dessen Interview + Giveaway". Interview with Heidi Zweifel, yabibliophile.com. April 16, 2015.

• I was actually pretty miserable in high school. I couldn't wait for it to be over. And when it finally was, I remember sitting at graduation with all these classmates getting nostalgic and emotional already and all I could think was, "Get me out of here. I never want to see you people again." So it's ironic that I spend half my day putting myself back there by choice [while writing].

  Sarah Dessen

  Writing, School, Emotional

  Source: blogs.idahostatesman.com

• You're not supposed to have it all figured out in high school. If you knew it all, and it was the best, it's all downhill from there.

  Sarah Dessen

  School, High School, Ifs

• I'm incredibly flattered when people tell me that my books helped them through high school. Because of my own experience, the thought that something I wrote might help someone who felt the way I did when I was a teen...that's huge. It awes me.

  Sarah Dessen

  Book, School, People

  Source: blogs.idahostatesman.com

• I love YA, and it's been a really good fit for me. But at some point, I would like to try something else: a collection of short stories, or writing about something other than high school. A
  lot has happened to me since I was eighteen.

  Sarah Dessen

  Writing, School, Trying

• I wasn't very happy in high school: it was a confusing and sort of sad time for me.

  Sarah Dessen

  School, Confusing, Sad Times

  "El Templo" Interview with Lucía Gayo, www.eltemplodelasmilpuertas.com. June 2013.

• All of my stories, they don't come from my high school experience, but they're definitely based on things that happened to me in high school, or things that happened to friends of mine, or things that I wish had happened to me.

  Sarah Dessen

  School, Wish, Stories

  Interview with Stephanie Mooney, www.weheartya.com. June 13, 2013.

• I hated high school. I was not the greatest student, participated in no activities, and spent most of my time hanging out in my parking lot.

  Sarah Dessen

  School, Students, Hated

  "Author Interview: Sarah Dessen on Just Listen". Interview with Cynthia Leitich Smith, cynthialeitichsmith.blogspot.com. December 12, 2006.

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