Most people felt lost after high school. Sometimes I felt like I'd never really been found in the first place.

In our minds we tried to pin her to a corkboard like a butterfly, but the pin merely went through and away she flew

My face is pizza-shaped, and my acne in high school was like pepperoni. Thank God it was carry out and not delivery.

I'd studied Latin for five years now, which meant that I could, on rare occasions, actually translate something.

Most of my friends were in band, and most of my free time during school was spent within twenty feet of the band room

Take a limitation and turn it into an opportunity. Take an opportunity and turn it into an adventure by dreaming BIG!

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

The angel of death can hardly have friends. And the prom, what about Danny? He can hardly have a Valkyrie for his date.

There's always a bit of suspense about the particular way in which a given school year will get off to a bad start.

What I know about you, Henry,” he said. “Is that you, as big as you are, know how to walk gently on this earth.

Well my music was different in high school; I was singing about love—you know, things I don't care about anymore.

I swear that I will never cause trouble for anybody, as long as I live!! So please! Nobody cause any trouble for me, either!!

The ones who stay unnoticed often see the most. They live out other people's lives, since their own are so unremarkable...

Holding Eleanor's hand was like holding a butterfly. Or a heartbeat. Like holding something complete, and completely alive.

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single girl of high standing at Longbourn Academy must be in want of a prom date.