High School Quotes - Page 17

• Since this was a formal undead gathering, there would be food—all kinds—drinks, dancing, and festivities, while those in power pondered whether or not to slaughter half the people around them. In other words, like a high-school prom.

  Jeaniene Frost

  School, People, Dancing

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• Bono met his wife in high school," Park says. "So did Jerry Lee Lewis," Eleanor answers. "I’m not kidding," he says. "You should be," she says, "we’re sixteen." "What about Romeo and Juliet?" "Shallow, confused," then dead. "I love you, Park says. "Wherefore art thou," Eleanor answers. "I’m not kidding," he says. "You should be.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Art, Confused, Love You

  "Eleanor & Park: Exclusive Special Edition". Book by by Rainbow Rowell, October 4, 2016.

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• Do you think it's funny to be so serious when I'm not even out of high school?' she asked. 'I don't see how it could be any other way,' said Lee. 'Laughter comes later, like wisdom teeth, and laughter at yourself comes last of all in a mad race with death, and sometimes it isn't in time.

  John Steinbeck

  Laughter, School, Thinking

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.436, Penguin

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• Throw in the intensity of emotions that come with that bittersweet summer sandwiched between high school graduation and the rest of your life.

  Emily Giffin

  Summer, School, Rest Of Your Life

  Emily Giffin (2008). “Love the One You're With”, p.367, Macmillan

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• High school taught me a valuable lesson about glasses: Don't wear them. Contacts have always seemed like too much work, so instead I just squint, figuring that if something is more than ten feet away, I'll just deal with it when I get there.

  David Sedaris

  School, Glasses, Feet

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• Maybe the Merlin was right. Maybe its better to look stupid but strong, than it is to look smart but weak, I don't know. I'm not sure I want to believe that the world stage bears that strong a resemblance to high school.

  Jim Butcher

  Strong, Smart, Stupid

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• Fortunately for me, I ran across some girls I could get along with so I could enjoy high school life okay, but it must be awful for kids who don't get along with anybody. We're different from our parents, a completely different species from our teachers. And kids who are one grade apart you are in a different world altogether. In other words, we're basically surrounded by enemies and have to make it on our own.

  Natsuo Kirino

  Girl, Teacher, School

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• I daydream about a high school where everybody plays the harmonica: the students, the teachers, the principal, the janitor and the cook in the cafeteria.

  Richard Brautigan

  Teacher, School, Play

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• Tell me about it. It’s so hard to deal with a single parent. They take out all their anxiety on you. It’s like, she’s so angry all the time. And I didn’t even do anything!” “That’s so wrong.” “Yeah.” “Where’s your dad?” “I don’t know. My mom had me when she was still in high school, so . . .” “You don’t see him at all?” “No, and I don’t want to. I have no interest in maintaining a relationship with someone who didn’t love me enough to stick around.

  Susane Colasanti

  Mom, Dad, School

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• todays the first anniversary of the asteroid hitting the moon. A year ago i was sixteen years old, a sophomore in high school.

  Susan Beth Pfeffer

  School, Moon, Years

  Susan Beth Pfeffer (2015). “The Life As We Knew It Collection”, p.576, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Hairstyles change, and skirt lengths, and slang, but high school administrations? Never.

  Stephen King

  School, Administration, Skirts

  Stephen King (2016). “11/22/63: A Novel”, p.368, Simon and Schuster

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• The higher my GPA gets the more I realize high school is useless

  Megan McCafferty

  School, Gpa, Useless

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• In the darkest hour of winter, when the starlings had all flown away, Gretel Samuelson fell in love. It happened the way things are never supposed to happen in real life, like a sledgehammer, like a bolt from out of the blue. One minute she was a seventeen year-old senior in high school waiting for a Sicilian pizza to go; the next one she was someone whose whole world had exploded, leaving her adrift in the Milky Way, so far from earth she was walking on stars.

  Alice Hoffman

  Senior, Stars, Real

  Alice Hoffman (2000). “Local Girls”, p.56, Penguin Group

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• Odd: I wish I could believe in reincarnation. Chief Porter: Not me. Once down the track is enough of a test. Pass me or fail me, Dear Lord, but don't make me go through high school again. Odd: If there's something we want so bad in this life but we can't have it, maybe we could get it the next time around. Chief Porter: Or maybe not getting it, accepting less without bitterness and being grateful for what we have is a part of what we're here to learn.

  Dean Koontz

  Believe, Grateful, School

  Dean Koontz (2014). “The Odd Thomas Series 7-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd”, p.356, Bantam

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• I think about my choice. Either outcome is bleak. If I stay and live through high school, go to college, get a job, what will ever change? This blackness inside will never go away. I don't make friends; I'll always be alone. If I go, at least there's hope of peace. Chance of a new and better life on the other side.

  Julie Anne Peters

  Jobs, School, College

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• There are a million rules for being a girl. There are a million things you have to do to get through each day. High school has things that can trip you up, ruin you, people say one thing and mean another, and you have to know all the rules, you have to know what you can and can't do.

  Elizabeth Scott

  Girl, School, Mean

  Elizabeth Scott (2010). “The Unwritten Rule”, p.115, Simon and Schuster

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• Lesson #456 of high school life: Never, EVER trust an alarm clock.

  Heather Brewer

  School, Alarms, Lessons

  Heather Brewer (2009). “Tenth Grade Bleeds #3: The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod”, p.62, Penguin

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• I had this whole plan when I graduated high school: I was going to go to college, date a few guys, and then meet THE guy at the end of my freshman year, maybe at the beginning of my sophomore year. We'd be engaged by graduation and married the next year. And then, after some traveling, we'd start our family. Four kids, three years apart. I wanted to be done by the time I was 35.

  Rainbow Rowell

  School, Kids, College

  Rainbow Rowell (2011). “Attachments”, p.124, Hachette UK

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• From the look on your face, I'd say you know him." I nodded. "Sold him a cannoli when I was in high school." Connie grunted. "Honey, half of all the women in New Jersey have sold him their cannoli

  Janet Evanovich

  School, Looks, Half

  Janet Evanovich (2011). “Stephanie Plum One, Two, Three: One for the Money, Two for the Dough, Three to Get Deadly”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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• In school, the year was the marker. Fifth grade. Senior year of high school. Sophomore year of college. Then after, the jobs were the marker. That office. This desk. But now that school is over and I've been working at the same place in the same office at the same desk for longer than I can truly believe, I realize: You have become the marker. This is your era. And it's only if it goes on and on that will have to look for other ways to identify the time.

  David Levithan

  Senior, Jobs, Believe

  David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.179, Macmillan

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• What being home-schooled has taught me, more than anything, is what a waste of a life high school is.

  Jodi Picoult

  Home, School, Waste

  Jodi Picoult (2010). “House Rules: A Novel”, p.305, Simon and Schuster

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• High school’s actually kind of boring. It’s a little bit like living in the Center. Everyone thinks they know everything about everyone else, but really there’s a lot more under the surface. (Lend)

  Kiersten White

  School, Thinking, Littles

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• I always wanted to be grown up. When I was little I couldn’t wait to be a teenager and go to high school. When I got there I wanted to be done with it, wanted to get out into the world, the real one, and live in it. The thing is, that world doesn’t exist. All growing up means is that you realize no one will come along to fix things. No one will come along to save you.

  Elizabeth Scott

  Growing Up, Real, Teenager

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• The fact was, by the time she got to high school, being weird and proud of it was an asset. Suddenly cool, Blue could've happily had any number of friends. And she had tried. But the problem with being weird was that everyone else was 'normal'".

  Maggie Stiefvater

  School, Blue, Numbers

  Maggie Stiefvater (2012). “The Raven Boys”, p.86, Scholastic Inc.

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• You are not my high school crush, idiot.” “Great. I can die happy, then.

  Rachel Caine

  Crush, School, Idiot

  Rachel Caine (2010). “The Morganville Vampires:”, p.338, Penguin

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