Sarah Dessen Quotes About School

• Fue como cuando eres pequeño y te encuentras con tu profesor o bibliotecario en el supermercado o en Wal-Mart y te quedas tan sorprendido, porque nunca se te había ocurrido que existieran fuera de la escuela.

  Sarah Dessen

  Running, Teacher, School

  Sarah Dessen (2008). “Just Listen”, p.100, Penguin

• In the summer, the days were long, stretching into each other. Out of school, everything was on pause and yet happening at the same time, this collection of weeks when anything was possible.

  Sarah Dessen

  Summer, School, Long

• 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

• It's funny how two people can grow up in the same town, go to the same school, have the same friends, and end up so totally different. Family, or lack of it, counts for more than you'd think.

  Sarah Dessen

  Growing Up, School, Thinking

  Sarah Dessen (2013). “The Moon and More”, p.31, Penguin

• Lissa lowered her voice and added, "I might not even go to school anyway. I might defer and join the Peace Corps and go to Africa and shave my head and dig latrines." "Shave your head?" I said, because, really, this was the most ludicrous part of the whole thing. "You? Do you have any idea how ugly most people's bare heads are? They've got all kinds of bumps, Lissa. And you won't know until it's too late and you're flat-out bald.

  Sarah Dessen

  School, Ideas, Voice

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “This Lullaby”, p.117, Penguin

• I'm sorry," I heard him say again. Then, out of the corner of my eye, I saw a sudden blur of movement as he slid out of his seat, left some bills for the breakfast he wouldn't eat, and walked away. And as he did, I thought again of those mornings in the hallway at school, way back in ninth grade. Everything had started in such sharp detail, each aspect pronounced and clear. Obviously, endings were different. Harder to see, full of shapes that could be one thing or another, with all the things that you were once so sure of suddenly not familiar, if they were even recognizable at all.

  Sarah Dessen

  Morning, Sorry, Eye

  Sarah Dessen (2013). “The Moon and More”, p.87, Penguin

• All of my stories, they don't come from my high school experience, but they're definitely based on things that happened to me in high school, or things that happened to friends of mine, or things that I wish had happened to me.

  Sarah Dessen

  School, Wish, Stories

  Interview with Stephanie Mooney, www.weheartya.com. June 13, 2013.

• I hated high school. I was not the greatest student, participated in no activities, and spent most of my time hanging out in my parking lot.

  Sarah Dessen

  School, Students, Hated

  "Author Interview: Sarah Dessen on Just Listen". Interview with Cynthia Leitich Smith, cynthialeitichsmith.blogspot.com. December 12, 2006.

• In school, writing was the only thing that really came naturally to me, but it wasn't until college that I realized that I could do it for more than just fun.

  Sarah Dessen

  Diversión, Escritura, Escuela

  "Author Interview: Sarah Dessen on Just Listen". Interview with Cynthia Leitich Smith, cynthialeitichsmith.blogspot.com. December 12, 2006.

• Cuando estaba en el instituto, siempre envidiaba a esas chicas que parecían tenerlo todo: el pelo perfecto, la ropa perfecta, el novio perfecto, la vida perfecta. No fue hasta que fui mayor cuando me di cuenta de que la vida de nadie es perfecta, y de que esas chicas probablemente tenían muchos de los mismos problemas que yo.

  Sarah Dessen

  Girl, School, Hair

  "Author Interview: Sarah Dessen on Just Listen". Interview with Cynthia Leitich Smith, cynthialeitichsmith.blogspot.com. December 12, 2006.

• You're not supposed to have it all figured out in high school. If you knew it all, and it was the best, it's all downhill from there.

  Sarah Dessen

  School, High School, Ifs

• La verdad es que fui un desastre en el instituto. Hice muchas cosas en el instituto de las que no estoy orgullosa. No fui una buena estudiante y no fui particularmente una buena hija. No estaba muy comprometida.

  Sarah Dessen

  Daughter, School, Hot

  "Sarah Dessen Interview + Giveaway". Interview with Heidi Zweifel, yabibliophile.com. April 16, 2015.

• I was actually pretty miserable in high school. I couldn't wait for it to be over. And when it finally was, I remember sitting at graduation with all these classmates getting nostalgic and emotional already and all I could think was, "Get me out of here. I never want to see you people again." So it's ironic that I spend half my day putting myself back there by choice [while writing].

  Sarah Dessen

  Writing, School, Emotional

  Source: blogs.idahostatesman.com

• I love YA, and it's been a really good fit for me. But at some point, I would like to try something else: a collection of short stories, or writing about something other than high school. A
  lot has happened to me since I was eighteen.

  Sarah Dessen

  Writing, School, Trying

• I'm incredibly flattered when people tell me that my books helped them through high school. Because of my own experience, the thought that something I wrote might help someone who felt the way I did when I was a teen...that's huge. It awes me.

  Sarah Dessen

  Libro, Escuela, Gente

  Source: blogs.idahostatesman.com

• I wasn't very happy in high school: it was a confusing and sort of sad time for me.

  Sarah Dessen

  School, Confusing, Sad Times

  "El Templo" Interview with Lucía Gayo, www.eltemplodelasmilpuertas.com. June 2013.

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