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

High school isn't a very important place. When you're going you think it's a big deal, but when it's over nobody really thinks it was great unless they're beered up.

They had become a fixed star in the shifting firmament of the high school's relationships, the acknowledged Romeo and Juliet. And she knew with sudden hatefulness that there was one couple like them in every white suburban high school in America.

It's like looking at all the students and wondering who's had their heart broken that day, and how they are able to cope with having three quizzes and a book report on top of that.

I was this 5-7 pudgy kid in high school... I wasn't a popular kid. I was an outcast.

I was crazy for music as a high school kid and a college kid.