Simone Elkeles Quote

Honestly, I'd rather be anywhere else. Even home, where my dad begins almost every conversation with, "You should lose the black clothes and wear something with color." Puh-lease. Like I want to look...

...as we are endowed. ...with rhetorics. ...none will deny. ...of innocence. ...towards scribbling. ...of love lines. ...and of lust. ...to what seems like male. ...to what seems like female. ...in th...

I know what I'm talking about, Alecto! When I think of Jud, I think of the times he wanted to be a coal miner, the times he took Wendy and me sailing in the harbour, the times he showed me how to play...

For those of you who may be homeschooled: high school is that four-year asylum where they put teenagers because we have no idea what else to do with them.

I think it would shock most people if they really knew what we have each survived by the time we graduate high school.

If we held grudges for all the idiotic things we said and did as freshman and sophomores, the hallways would be silent.

All Julie has to do is explain to her friends that she's using it to individually seal each item that she throws out.Then they'd think she was a geek, I said.She will thank me later, Monk said.Why wou...

I'm still not totally sure I know what's true about me.

It was about how men walk into a forest afraid because they know all the things that can happen. They might wake the noisy birds and cause chaos. But kids come into the trees and see the magic. They c...

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.