Sarah Rees Brennan Quotes

What was really funny is that as I got older all those guys who called me a sissy in junior high school wanted me to be their best friend because they wanted to meet all the girls that I knew in figure skating.

I don't know if I was popular in high school. My school was actually not really clique-y, which was nice. I went to a very artsy school, so everyone was kind of friends with each other. I was trying to be popular more, like, in junior high and elementary school and dealt with all that backstabbing and drama.

I went to a girls' school, and it was awful. The combination of my teenage anger and their jealousy meant I was always getting into fights. There was a lot of pulling of hair and scratching of faces and rolling around on the floor.

I've only been in one fight in my whole life... in 7th grade, yet everyone thinks I'm a maniac.

I grew up in Hawaii and I think it was easier because we did not have cliques at high school.

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

If I'm among my boys or people I've grown up with, I can be immature.

It's well known that many girls have a tendency to dumb down when they're in middle school.

When I was in middle school, some of my so-called friends found a catalog ad I did for Superman pajamas. They made as many copies as they could and pasted them up all over school.

The only thing I learnt in high school is that people are very violent and territorial.

I got into a fight with a kid in junior high, and then we became friends after that.

We all remember growing up with mean girls, right?

I like to have fun. I'm also a bit of the crazy one. All my friends are boys. I was bullied a lot by girls in school. There was also too much drama and demands.

Fighting was a problem for me in high school.

I feel like everyone in life someway or somehow may have been bullied - or may have been a bully.

I had a lot of fights in high school.

Once I got to high school and hit my growth spurt, nobody really messed with me anymore.

I was a loner; I spent the first half of high school alone.

That kind of 'Lord of the Flies' brutality of being 11, it's a tough time. You're trying to figure out who you are, and who your friends are, and what your alliances are, and kids fall out all the time.

I was one of the smaller kids growing up.

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.

With any teen show, there's going to be drama and heartache.

Fun. I'm not the kind of guy kids picked on in school, but I've seen it happen. I've never really given much thought to being cool. I don't really think about it one way or the other.

The teen years are extremely serious and everything matters and every insult really hurts. I know there are cliques and bullying. And you don't yet ­understand that it will all go away.

You should be nicer to him,' a schoolmate had once said to me of some awfully ill-favored boy. 'He has no friends.' This, I realized with a pang of pity that I can still remember, was only true as long as everybody agreed to it.