Beyond these moments, she could hardly count the fumbling ministrations of boys in high school who, even to her senior prom, never went beyond sticky pleasantries. With one exception, it was just a sort of...

Let me give you some advice here: People who want to have the sex talk with you will act the same way as people who want to murder you. First they get you in their...

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

I could kiss that girl. And ya know what? I will kiss that girl. As soon as I get back to school, I’m gonna grab her, and I’m gonna kiss her.

Last year, millions of students didn’t graduate from high school. They didn’t drop out, they were simply in elementary and middle schools.

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

Just to be clear, if I, like, leaned over and whispered your name in your ear, still nothing?

Inside Ms. Maddox’s classroom, it was so quiet you could hear the breathing bounce off the walls.

It didn’t matter.Carson wasn’t the one for me. He wasn’t even the one for right now. My life would hopefully have its great love story but this wasn’t it. It would happen in D.C. in...

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

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

I didn’t really spend much time with anyone my own age during high school because I believed my true calling would be representing New Jersey in the U.S. Senate, and if that didn’t work out,...

No man wants his daughter to be the kind of girl whom he liked in high school.

Mean girls go far in high school. Kind women go far in LIFE.

I found I could only glance at him for tiny moments and then I had to look away. He was perfect enough to hurt my feelings for a long time, and I wanted to let...

But I know I didn’t love school for school’s sake. I had never really been what people call an ‘academic’ person, nor did I see myself becoming one. Instead, I took pleasure in the fact...

Good, stupid high school boys aren’t worth It” She throws an arm over my shoulder. “They’re trained to like a certain type of girl, with highlights and pretty nails- the kind who are good at...

People always slow down for a train wreck. It’s like junk food. If you don’t feel good about yourself, you want to read crap about other people, like gossip in high school. You don’t understand...

I mean if there was any justice in the world you wouldn’t even have to go to school during your period. You’d just stay home for five days and eat chocolate and cry.

At Chadham High, the safest place to be gay was in the closet.

Popular kids are just a powerful union of needy, insecure losers.

Attack me already. Please! I can’t take it anymore.But I don’t say any of that. I just savor each and every slow, amazing, and tongue-free kiss. Maybe he was born without a tongue, I think for...

I couldn’t stop crying because it was so intimate, in that way I always thought being physical with him would feel. If someone had walked in they might have thought Henry was barely touching me....

Oh, man,’ Beck breathed. ‘Check out the car.’ It was white with a black top. The hood looked as as long as a football field. ‘Sure is big,’ was all I could manage to say....

A few other couples joined us on the dance floor and we lost ourselves among them. I’d never been able to figure out exactly what was involved in slow dancing, so I contented myself, as...

What the fuck? That was like, four rules, not one.

You want to come back to the bank vault?” Jack says.The bank vault. That’s what Jack calls his house.

If you skip one class, everyone knows about it. The teacher will track you down, or one of the guidance counselors will track you down and ask if you’re smoking pot. According to the geniuses...

I’ve found newspapers only useful as kindling material for campfires. It’s been said that newspaper articles are written at a fifth grade reading level. If so, I can’t figure out why journalists would write something...

I feel like I might start crying and that I’m going to cry pee.

The first thing I needed, possibly the only thing, was to kiss her and I did, for as long as I could. I let us both breathe for a minute, and I perched her on...

I dropped my bag to the floor and the sound echoed throughout the house. No one shouted, “who’s home?” or “Cassie? Is that you?”. Instead the house gobbled up the sound as if it didn’t...

High school and college students like to torture their bodies. They pull countless all-nighters, continually skip breakfast, eat nothing but ramen noodles for dinner, find creative new ways to guzzle alcohol, transform into couch potatoes,...

I’m assuming you have a reason behind this irrational need to conform to this institution.” (Eric)

It’s some twisted, limited, grocery-store mentality, where people have to be dairy products or vegetables or frozen foods for us to be able to understand them and feel safe. Maybe we’ve just become such mega-consumers...

Jade Cannon, you are totally hot!” Trace announced loudly, and people nearby stopped to stare at us after his outburst. I couldn’t help but laugh.

Pretty much everyone hates high school. It’s a measure of your humanity, I suspect. If you enjoyed high school, you were probably a psychopath or a cheerleader. Or possibly both.

Since the teachers weren’t picking, I ended up with a boy with bad body odour. ‘You should wear deodorant,’ I said to him. ‘And you should shut your trap,’ he replied.

You don’t always get to pick the role you’re going to play in life, but it’s good to play whatever role you got the best way you can.

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

High school is worse than having to swim through multiple prahana filled lakes- and that’s before the truckload of homework.

Some people were simply created with the right genes and the proper social skills, I figured. They ended up at a lunch table with a group of good-looking individuals, like them, who did what all...

It’s who I am. I can’t just pretend to be some normal kid. That won’t work either. They’ll never leave me alone. But here’s what I know: a block is a strike, and the more...

Really?’ Shep scoffed and rolled his eyes. ‘You can’t be serious! Whitey, you come from the streets of North Philly, and you’re scared of a bunch of backwoods butt-monkeys that thinks that an awesome Saturday...

Teammates…were fine things. Piling onto the bus before the game, edgy with shared nerves, egging one another on with the genial, meaningless phrase C’mon, you guys!, collapsing back into the same seats for the ride...

Is that you, as big as you are, know how to walk gently on this earth.

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

I think we’re given multiple chances to meet multiple soulmates. Sure, you could meet a soulmate in highschool. But that doesn’t mean if you don’t act on it, you’ll never meet anyone else. You will,...

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

There was some violence a year ago. An important kid got shot during an attempted kidnapping while on spring break in Mexico. The Fortune 500 went security crazy. Now rich kids like Jack need a...