High School Quotes - Page 24

• Gossip is one thing, hurtful gossip is completely another, and even in high school we weren't THAT mean.

  Nicholas Sparks

  School, Mean, Gossip

  Nicholas Sparks (2000). “A Walk to Remember”, Random House Large Print Publishing

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• In the high school classroom you are a drill sergent, a rabbi, a shoulder to cry on, a disciplinarian, a singer, a low-level scholar, a clerk, a referee, a clown, a counselor, a dress-code enforcer, a conductor, an apologist, a philosopher, a collaborator, a tap dancer, a politician, a therapist, a fool, a traffic cop, a priest, a mother-father-brother-sister-uncle-aunt, a bookeeper, a critic, a psychologist, the last straw.

  Frank McCourt

  Mother, Brother, Uncles

  Frank McCourt (2005). “Teacher Man: A Memoir”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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• The hope was, people like me got to finally find our place in college or in the actual world. People who understood this told you that high school wasn't the actual world, that it was more like a temporary alternate reality you were forced to believe in for four years. A video game you played, where you could never get to the next level no matter how hard you tried.

  Deb Caletti

  Believe, School, Reality

  Deb Caletti (2010). “The Six Rules of Maybe”, p.68, Simon and Schuster

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• Whoa. If high school was suppose to be the best years of my life - at least so far - I was truly destined to have a sucky adulthood.

  Meg Cabot

  School, Years, Best Year

  Meg Cabot (2009). “Airhead:”, p.216, Scholastic Inc.

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• Every high school has its Romeo and Juliet, one tragic couple. So does every generation.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Couple, School, Doe

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• I failed angst in high school. They let me graduate anyway.

  John Scalzi

  School, Graduates, Angst

  John Scalzi (2010). “Your Hate Mail Will Be Graded: A Decade of Whatever, 1998-2008”, p.26, Macmillan

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• You know, small children take it as a matter of course that things will change every day and grown-ups understand that things change sooner or later and their job is to keep them from changing as long as possible. It’s only kids in high school who are convinced they’re never going to change. There’s always going to be a pep rally and there’s always going to be a spectator bus, somewhere out there in their future.

  Stephen King

  Jobs, Children, Teenager

  Stephen King, Tim Underwood, Chuck Miller (1988). “Bare bones: conversations on terror with Stephen King”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• Ethan and I are done," I said finally. "I'm sorry." "He was my first boyfriend." "I know." "The only real boyfriend I've had. I'm a senior in high school and he was my only real boyfriend." "I know." "And I won't find another one at Jones Hall. That is guaranteed." "Okay." "This is all very sad and tragic," I said. Alan unwrapped a sleeve of Smarties. "Yet, oddly, you don't seem that upset." "I know.

  Sara Zarr

  Senior, Sorry, Real

  Sara Zarr (2008). “Sweethearts”, p.148, Hachette UK

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• And now life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future-you go to high school so you can go to college so you can get a good job so you can get nice house.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Jobs, Nice, School

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• Your peers when you're a teenager will always be the keepers of your embarrassment and regret. It was one of life's great injustices, that you can move on and be accomplished and happy, but the moment you see someone from high school you immediately become the person you were then, not the person you are now.

  Sarah Addison Allen

  Regret, Teenager, Moving

  Sarah Addison Allen (2010). “The Girl Who Chased the Moon: A Novel”, p.90, Bantam

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• My high school guidance counselor, Mrs. Inverholl, once had me take an aptitude test to figure out my future. The number one job recommendation for my set of skills was an air traffic accident investigator, of which there are fewer than fifty in the world. The number two job was a museum curator for Chinese-American studies. The number three job was a circus clown.

  Jodi Picoult

  Jobs, School, Skills

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules”, p.1437, Simon and Schuster

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• Q, you're going to go to Duke. You're going to be a very successful lawyer-or-something and get married and have babies and live your whole little life, and then you're going to die, and in the last moments, when you're chocking on your own bile in the nursing home, you'll say to yourself:'Well, I wasted my whole goddamned life, but at least I broke into SeaWorld with Margo Roth Spiegelman my senior year of high school. At least I carpe'd that one diem.

  John Green

  Senior, Baby, Home

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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