Laurie Halse Anderson Quotes

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.

I just wanted to fit in as a teenager, but it was hopeless.

I tried to be really tough when I was younger. I felt I had to stand up for myself. I never felt like I fit in.

I definitely spent a lot of high school isolating myself because I didn't feel like I fit in. I learned how to be funny.

I felt alienated at school, and I never did well with girls.

Let's face it. No kid in high school feels as though they fit in.

I did get bullied and I did get picked on and I did have that feeling in my gut of being incredibly self-conscious. I naturally gravitated towards my elders because I didn't know how to speak or be present with my peers.

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

I was a very awkward high schooler, especially in early high school.

I was regarded as the school freak which further reinforced a lot of inhibitions and doubts I had about myself. I was a shy, frightened teenager for a long time.

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

I absolutely hated high school. As a freshman, I was 5 feet tall and weighed 95 pounds... When I got to high school, I had no social skills. Was I a nerd? More of a dork. Definitely not one of the popular kids.

I never felt comfortable with myself, because I was never part of the majority. I always felt awkward and shy and on the outside of the momentum of my friends' lives.

I definitely felt awkward and I didn't fit in. Other than that, I'm learning that everyone felt that way: even the popular girls.

I was a very unconfident teenager. I wanted desperately to fit in.

I guess my friends probably think I'm one of the lamest when it comes to doing stuff.

I think everyone in high school at one point feels like they're on the outside observing what's going on. Even if you're very popular, you have an outsider experience.

I was the awkward, shy chick in high school.

It's so easy as a teen to feel like everybody is having this normal experience - except you. You're on the outside.

As a teenager, I was very awkward in my skin. I was never in the cool gang. I had braces and was quite the geek as well as a tomboy.

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

The feeling of not belonging, of not being entirely worthy, of being sometimes hostage to your own sensibilities. Those things speak to me very personally.

My freshman year of high school was just awkwardness all around.

I'm still the fat kid from high school who never had a date.

I had just started ninth grade when I got my acne. And I had braces. I wouldn't look people in the eye. It was not a good time for me - it just killed my self-esteem. I thought when I didn't look at someone, they couldn't see my face.