Curtis Sittenfeld Quotes

Coming into high school, it's scary. You don't know which group to be in, and I can't stand that it's so cliquey.

You never grow out of high school sadly.

High school, you don't want to go back and do it over again.

Everybody remembers what it's like to be in high school. We really never leave those years behind.

I remember I'd come home from fifth, sixth grade, and I'd watch 'Saved by the Bell' and be like, 'I hope my high school experience is like that.' And it totally wasn't. It sucked.

I didn't feel attractive in high school.

In high school, there are so many cliques. You're never safe.

Golly, I hated high school.

Junior and senior high school years were not a good time.

I was the awkward, shy chick in high school.

I went to a really diverse and wonderful school in inner-city Pittsburgh, where all the various groups and types of people got along pretty great, and a lot of interesting stuff was going on all the time - and I still hated high school. It's just a rough, rough period in one's life.

Everybody's gone through high school; everybody understands that dynamic. Some people have a great time, and some people don't have a great time. My high school experience was not the greatest. I wasn't necessarily bullied, but I was one of those guys that just goes along, and I didn't really feel connected to many of the social cliques.

Usually the bullies are the most insecure. I was bullied and it's hard, you feel like high schools never going to be over. Its four years of your life and you just have to remember the person picking on you has their own problems and their own issues. And you're going to be ok.

In high school, people wanted to find the worst in me.

It is my opinion that Norman Rockwell and his ilk have done more to make already anxious people feel guilty than anyone else.

As a teenager at high school, I felt like an outsider.

I don't know, Y'know, I always wanted to be one of those cheerleader girls and I never was that, and I was never sort of cute and perky, and I always thought it was fun to be cute and perky, and those, I don't know what those girls are doing now.

I didn't even dance at my high school prom, and I have turned down so many movie roles because I didn't know how to dance.

When I was in high school, there was a lot of pressure on me. I felt like I had to be perfect.

I've kind of blocked it out, but a good friend affectionately reminded me that yes, I was a dork. I was not a cool kid in high school.

On some level, I think everyone felt like a dork in high school.

Everyone has strange teenage years. It's not like I can claim some particularly unique set of high school horrors. I think I was just an awkward kid who never felt comfortable in his own skin. I think I was alone a lot by circumstance and then by choice.

In high school, I didn't date awesome dudes.

Prior to being bullied, I was a very footloose sixth-grader. You know, I was quirky, I was creative - I really felt good in my own body. And when I was bullied in seventh grade, my self-esteem tanked.

I was a very, very shy, insecure teenager.