Sarah Dessen Quotes

I am so sick of you smart kids. Why can't you just boost cars or steal stuff like normal kids?' 'We do steal stuff. Just bigger stuff.

I was a little troublemaker. Always trying to get in trouble, always mischief, like throwing rocks at cars when I was younger, all that kind of stuff.

I was a rotten kid. My excitement came from seeing what I could get away with.

I definitely ran with a pack of hoodlums, that's for sure.

I wasn't stealing cars at like, six. But I've always been bad.

I'm as wicked as Hitler's first born, cause of me, lot of old ladies purses gone.

No one wakes up one day and decides they want to become a drug dealer or they want to be a stick-up kid. Those decisions are made after a series of events have happened in one's life.

I was a bad boy as a child.

I was the bad kid in school. I was usually in trouble.

I was a troublemaking kid.

You have to steal a lot. You have to have a criminal mentality to be a film director.

I was a total bad girl growing up.

I was just a kid, but I was a rotten kid.

A thief believes everybody steals.

There are too many people with a Father Flanagan philosophy that there is no such thing as a bad boy. There are plenty of bad boys.

I started stealing in ninth grade. And I don't mean a pack of gum from the convenience store here and there. I mean stealing on the regular. It got really bad. It was one hundred percent an addiction.

My friends were stealing cars and shoplifting. I was never into that but I was cheeky. I enjoyed making people laugh.

I was a bad kid, getting into a lot of wild stuff.

I am what you call a hooligan-

I am a greaser. I am a JD and a hood. I blacken the name of our fair city. I beat up people. I rob gas stations. I am a menace to society. Man do I have fun!

Before rap came along, I was, actually, actively in the streets; getting in trouble, doing the wrong thing.

Look at all those American preachers who got caught with their pants down. They say one thing and they are doing another. I try to be more honest about it, both in my thinking and my behavior.

The trick is to steal big.

Hooliganism incarnate, a walking, talking, screaming, squawking metaphor for What's Wrong With Young People Today.

I heard someone's playing hooky,' Zach told me. He smiled. Standing there, it felt almost like nothing bad had ever happened- or would ever happen again 'There's a boy in my life,' I told him. 'He's a very bad influence.' Then Zach nodded. 'Bad boys have a way of doing that. But they're worth it.