We had grown into one another somewhere along the way. We were officially a team.

Education is every day and everywhere, the only thing you have to pay is attention.

This is how he always imagined- a dangerous place full of mystery and violent kids.

Why can't we repeat 8th grace five times and call that a high school education?

You only get to walk variations of the same lines everyone has already drawn for you.

Your best kicks ass and takes names,” Jack says, and he punches my shoulder again.

This just didn’t happen to girls like me. This just didn’t happen to anyone.

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

There is no force in high school more powerful than one person's blunt disagreement.

Ah, such a good pretty one.' There was a pause, 'You even got yourself dressed up.

Silence has always been my default mode—my best defense against the rest of the world.

He closed the locker quickly so no one would see the damage. For some reason, he felt ashamed.

You only go through High School once, but if you go through the way we did, that's enough.

Nobody wants to give up a weekend-long excuse to dress up and attempt to outshine one another.

High school is closer to the core of the American experience than anything else I can think of.