Coming-of-age-novel Quote by James Michael Rice

“Were we back in high school or what? We were acting like such schoolgirls, gossiping about boys and crushes.”

— Debra Sue Brice

“I wasn’t like the other girls at school. All they did was hang around in groups and talk about boys and TV shows and…

— Kevin Berry

“I’m in my junior year but I can’t take it anymore. The beige walls, the scent of linoleum and used lockers, the shrill bell…

— Diana Abu-Jaber

“schoolkids laughing and horsing around.”

— Oxford University Press

“High school sweethearts,”

— Jake Remington

“It pained me to imagine how our twosome appeared to others, marked as those kind of girls who belonged to each other. Those sexless…

— Emma Cline

“I’m too sophisticated for all this high school romance nonsense.”

— Clarisse David

“As juvenile as we sound, sometimes the most fun thing in the world is laughing with girls about boys.”

— Daria Snadowsky

“All I know is that right now I wanna rip your clothes off right here in the middle of this hall and throw you…

— L.J. Smith

“As I stomped across the school grounds, all I could see was Cal sitting with my dad in some manly room with leather chairs…

— Rachel Hawkins

“These, of course, are not the preppy boys we go to school with; these are the dirt-in-the-cracks-of-the-hands kind of boys, farmhands and fishermen who,…

— Katie Crouch

“Good, stupid high school boys aren't worth It" She throws an arm over my shoulder. "They're trained to like a certain type of girl,…

— Siobhan Vivian