High School Quotes - Page 25

• 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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• 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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• Since Stark had come back from the Otherworld, he'd been too weak and out of it to do much more than eat, sleep, and play computer games with Seoras, which was actually a super weird sight, it was like high school meets Braveheart meets Call of Duty.

  P. C. Cast

  School, Sleep, Sight

  P. C. Cast, Kristin Cast (2011). “Awakened: A House of Night Novel”, p.20, Macmillan

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• Top Trumps appeared to be a game in which you got cards, and the cards had a picture (in this case, of a horse), and told you all kinds of stats for that horse, how fast it was, how big it was, etc. Whoever had the better horse won both the cards. You repeated this until someone had all the cards. So, basically it was exactly like high school, except it only took three minutes. Which was really a bit more humane, if you thought about it.

  Maureen Johnson

  Horse, School, Games

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• Suddenly, it's all too much. Bryn and the bump watch. Vanessa with my high school yearbook. The idea that nothing's sacred. Everything's fodder. That my life belongs to anyone but me.

  Gayle Forman

  School, Yearbook, Ideas

  Gayle Forman (2011). “Where She Went”, p.16, Penguin

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• And in high school, people are always watching so there's always a reason to pose.

  Jay Asher

  School, People, Reason

  Jay Asher (2011). “Thirteen Reasons Why”, p.94, Penguin

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• What did that mean? Where could it go? He was a death diety. I was a high school senior.

  Meg Cabot

  Senior, School, Mean

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• In the classics section, she had picked up a copy of The Magic Mountain and recalled the summer between her junior and senior years of high school, when she read it, how she lay in bed hours after she should have gotten up, the sheet growing warmer against her skin as the sun rose higher in the sky, her mother poking her head in now and then to see if she'd gotten up yet, but never suggesting that she should: Eleanor didn't have many rules about child rearing, but one of them was this: Never interrupt reading.

  Elizabeth Berg

  Summer, Senior, Mother

  Elizabeth Berg (2009). “Home Safe: A Novel”, p.228, Random House

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• Shigure Sohma: singing High school girls high school girls all for me High school girls

  Natsuki Takaya

  Girl, School, Singing

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• This guy in high school tried to run me over with his dad’s SUV. Bad shoved the vehicle through a store window.” The memory brought a smile to my face.

  Darynda Jones

  Running, Memories, Dad

  Darynda Jones (2015). “The Charley Davidson Series”, p.185, St. Martin's Press

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• aloof, adj. It has always been my habit, ever since junior high school, to ask that question: “What are you thinking?” It is always an act of desperation, and I keep on asking, even though I know it will never work the way I want it to.

  David Levithan

  School, Thinking, Asking

  David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.13, Macmillan

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• There's nothing wrong with you. There's a lot wrong with the world you live in. And definitely get out of high school and make everyone sorry.

  Chris Colfer

  Sorry, School, World

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• Mia and I had been together for more than two years, and yes, it was a high school romance, but it was still the kind of romance where I thought we were trying to find a way to make it forever, the kind that, had we met five years later and had she not been some cello prodigy and had I not been in a band on the rise - or had our lives not been ripped apart by all this -I was pretty sure it would've been.

  Gayle Forman

  School, Years, Two

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• Matt looked up kids from his high school class. Only three were listed as dead, but a bunch were listed as missing/presumed dead. As a test, he looked us up, but none of our names were on any of the lists. And that's how we know we're alive this Memorial Day.

  Susan Beth Pfeffer

  Memorial Day, School, Kids

  Susan Beth Pfeffer (2008). “Life As We Knew It”, p.59, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• oh, my God," I whispered. "But how did they get my photo? Alex tapped his mouth with his thumb. "That ...book with everyone's picture in it, that you have in high school." "Yearbook," I said. Was he trying to be funny? But of course he was right; that's exactly where it was from.

  L.A. Weatherly

  Book, School, Trying

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• even if vampires were stupid. Especially American vampires. They hung out in places Alaric himself would never have gone, especially if he were immortal. Such as high schools. And Walmart.

  Meg Cabot

  Stupid, School, Vampire

  Meg Cabot (2012). “Insatiable”, p.32, HarperCollins UK

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• Only nut cases want to be president. This was true even in high school. Only clearly disturbed people ran for class president.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  School, Nuts, Class

  Kurt Vonnegut (2011). “A Man Without a Country”, p.102, Seven Stories Press

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• He inclined his head at my dress. "What's the occasion?" "Homecoming," I said, twirling. "Like?" "Last I heard, Homecoming requires a date." "About that," i hedged. "I'm sort of...going with Scott. We both figure a high-school dance is the last place Hank will be patrolling." Patch smiled, but it was tight. "I take that back. If Hank wants to shoot Scott, he has my blessing.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  School, Blessing, Dresses

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.774, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

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• But one thing I have to say about Darcy and dating is this: she never blew us off for a guy. She always put her friends first- which is an amazing thing for a high school girl to do.

  Emily Giffin

  Girl, School, Dating

  Emily Giffin (2010). “Something Borrowed: A Novel”, p.29, Macmillan

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• Getting into a fight with a popular senior. Pissing off a school teacher and the local chief of police. Hanging with two major-league losers." She slapped my back. "Welcome to high school.

  Harlan Coben

  Senior, Teacher, School

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• Listen. I may not be much, but I'm all I've got. Maybe you need a magnifying glass to find my face in my high school graduation photo. Maybe I haven't got any family or friends. Yes, yes, I know all that. But, strange as it might seem, I'm not entirely dissatisfied with life... I feel pretty much at home with what I am. I don't want to go anywhere. I don't want any unicorns behind fences.

  Haruki Murakami

  Home, School, Glasses

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