Sarah Kay Quotes

America is simultaneously the most attractive and most repulsive place on the planet. It is most loved and most hated.

Sometimes I find I'm wearing a divided, split brain in terms of drama and humor.

The best ideas make you want to say 'yes' and 'no' in the same breath.

This inner strength we have, this desire to evolve and expand and explore, I do love that about humanity. At the same time, it's scary what it does on a global scale. I'm very much caught between the two.

I always wanted to write a sad song that sounds happy. I think everyone can relate to this emotion.

I loved feeling special. I hated feeling special.

Everything was good. But it was awful, too.

High school sucks. People who say those were the best years of your life - those people are liars... Who wants the best years of their life to be in *high school*? High school is something *everybody* should be ready to lose.

I'm a child of extremes.

It's a weird dynamic - I guess there is a fine line between hope and sadness. Sometimes you can be feeling both at the same time.

I don't know what it is that I love so much about high school, but I'm attached. The empty hallways. The teachers. They made me feel so much.

The body is our enemy, and yet is our friend.

It would take too long to explain the intimate alliance of contradictions in human nature which makes love itself wear at times the desperate shape of betrayal. And perhaps there is no possible explanation.

That was my intention, was to have it be from the perspective of my high-school-aged self, and to try and emulate the music that I listened to at that time. So to write essentially like a pop-punk song about musicals. I wanted the dichotomy of the tone of the music with the lyrics and my singing voice.

[S]he stood for some moments gazing at the sisters, with affection beaming in one eye, and calculation shining out of the other.

With mirth in funeral and with dirge in marriage.

Memory is a strange Bell—Jubilee, and Knell.

High school wasn't a trial by fire or some ordeal that had to be survived. It was all a big joke. You just had to provide the laugh track.

Gay, straight - whatever - adolescents in high school and coming out of junior high, that's such a difficult, awkward period and kids can be so cruel and mean.

High school isn't a very important place. When you're going you think it's a big deal, but when it's over nobody really thinks it was great unless they're beered up.

Don't let anyone tell you that high school is supposed to be fun. High school is to be endured. College is fun.

Whoa. If high school was suppose to be the best years of my life - at least so far - I was truly destined to have a sucky adulthood.

I was actually kind of a hot mess in high school. I did a lot of things in high school I'm not proud of. I wasn't a good student and I wasn't particularly a good daughter. I wasn't very engaged.

People always tell me either A. you love him. B. you hate him. My usual answer? C. All of the above.

It is my belief that people who speak of high school with a sugary fondness are bluffing away early-onset Alzheimer's.