Sue Townsend Quotes

In high school, I definitely fancied myself an intense guy, which is so lame.

I felt all the things that other teenagers felt. I was insecure in lots of ways, over-confident in others. I was very emotional. Excitable.

I can easily connect with the prepubescent dork I spent much of my life being.

I have a dread of sounding pretentious and try not to talk too much about what I do.

Actually, in my own life I think I probably feign neuroses to be more interesting than I am.

When I was younger, the pressure was just being cool. I never thought of myself as a cool guy. I always thought of myself as more of the goofy guy.

I went through my awkward teenage years. I don't want to go back.

I was voted 'most shy' in seventh grade! Can you even believe it?

The one thing I would like to get across about my whole feeling regarding high school is how I was when I was fifteen. Gawky. Always a hem hanging down, or strap loose, or a pimple on my chin. I never knew what to do with my hair. I was a mess. And I still carry that fifteen-year-old girl around now. A piece of me still believes I'm the girl nobody dances with.

I have a fondness for writing about precocious, troubled teenagers, who are alienating, but kind of endearing. It's from remembering so clearly that time in my own life. I experienced myself as more dramatically troubled than I was, but I just remember how it felt.

As a kid, I felt really weird.

I spent the first fourteen years of my life convinced that my looks were hideous. Adolescence is painful for everyone, I know, but mine was plain weird.

Adolescence is just one big walking pimple.

I was blessed with blonde hair and a baby face - well, I don't know if you'd call that blessed - I don't even remember when I started shaving.

If I saw my 15-year-old self now, I'd think I wasn't that bad, but back then I perceived myself as awful.

I worry that I can come off smarmy. I wonder if I was listening to myself if I'd want to kick my own ass.

I was an awkward kid.

Everyone seems to relate to the awkwardness of being a teenager, or even a 30-year-old.

I am a very open person, and I'm always nervous of being misconstrued. Sitting in the middle of a restaurant makes me nervous. I feel like I'm being judged. And it's funny that I should feel that way.

I feel incredibly awkward as a human being and incredibly teenaged still.

In school, I was a beanpole with a nose I hadn't grown into.

All I wanted was attention from girls when I was a kid. Then I got my braces off, and then there was too much attention, and I was also mad that they didn't pay attention to me in the first place. Then I was just like, I couldn't put on blinders and focus on one because there were too many options.

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

I've gone through my whole life caring deeply what people think of me.

People think I have an interesting walk. Hell, I'm just trying to hold my gut in.