Katie Alender Quotes & Sayings

That's the pathetic thing about high school. Everyone tries so hard to be something they aren't. It's gotten so I don't know who I am, so how can I even try to be who I am, much less who I'm not?
My problem is that I don't even fit in with the misfits.
I don't fit anywhere. — Katie Alender

Everyone has moments of weakness. But that doesn't make you weak. — Katie Alender

I'd always assumed Beth and I would be friends forever. But then in middle of the eighth grade, the Goldbergs went through the World's Nastiest Divorce.
Beth went a little nuts.
I don't blame her. When her dad got involved with this twenty-one year old dental hygienist, Beth got involved with the junk food aisle at the grocery store. She carried processed snack cakes the way toddlers carry teddy bears. She gained, like, twenty pounds, but I didn't think it was a big deal. I figured she'd get back to her usual weight once the shock wore off.
Unfortunately, I wasn't the only person who noticed.
May 14 was 'Fun and Fit Day at Surry Middle School, so the gym was full of booths set up by local health clubs and doctors and dentists and sports leagues, all trying to entice us to not end up as couch potatoes. That part was fine. What wasn't fine was when the whole school sat down to watch the eighth-grade cheerleaders' program on physical fitness. — Katie Alender

The only thing worse than parents who don't pay attention to you is parents who pat you on the shoulder on their way out the door — Katie Alender

How could something taht made a person feel so safe be so BAD? — Katie Alender

I felt a tightening in my chest, a sharp spike of intense sadness-almost like nostalgia, except it was for a life I never had. — Katie Alender

Kissing was an extension of that, a celebration. A little party between us, amplifying our naive joy, our faith that the world was delighted to give us just what we wanted. — Katie Alender

Ignorance may be bliss, but at the end of the day it's still ignorance. — Katie Alender

I'm not the beach-going type. the thought of being crowded into an endless sea of sun worshipers was the opposite of tempting - give me wizard school any day. — Katie Alender

Somehow suspension sounded way worse than detention. Detention happens to everybody. Suspension, though - that's for the sociopaths.
I wasn't a hundred percent sure I was ready to take that leap. — Katie Alender

Everyone lies, and there are no consequences. It's like a magical fairyland! — Katie Alender

AAAAAANNND LOOK OVER here," Hannah said. "Another dead person. What a shock. — Katie Alender

NEED seemed like a really powerful word - - a powerful word containing a lot of powerlessness. — Katie Alender

Just say something real. Everyone just always tries so hard, and it all comes out the same. I just want someone to say something real. — Katie Alender

Don't you get it?" he asked. "Every time you try to protect me, you end up breaking my heart. — Katie Alender

Preps are like cheerleaders, except less jumpy — Katie Alender

Stay sunny, we said.
Because if you don't everyone will know you're a monster — Katie Alender

(Cinderella can't walk around her new castle covered in cinders, after all). — Katie Alender

Maybe it's human nature to be drawn to the things that have hurt us the most. — Katie Alender

Apparently when it's two people, it's quirky and funny, but when it's a person doing the same stuff on her own, it's rebellious and antisocial. — Katie Alender

I was deep in a dream about photography-walking through a strange city with buildings that stretched so high they disappeared into the clouds. And every time I took a picture of one, it shivered and changed into something else. A sound came from a building behind me-a soft song. I started to walk toward it's open doors, but they closed. I would have to climb in a window-
and then I woke up. — Katie Alender

It wouldn't hurt you to show a little school spirit, Mom said. As if she were a fan of high school football. Mom can take a simple obvservation, such as saying that it wouldn't hurt for a person to show a little school spirit, and say it in such a way that she might as well be saying, 'It wouldn't hurt you to stop clubbing those baby seals. — Katie Alender

How could something that made a person feel so safe be so BAD? — Katie Alender

So here's the deal:
I speak up in class, I get sent to office. Megan speaks up in class, she's a "strong, assertive model student."I post a few flyers saying that the vending machines on school property are a sign that our school has sold out to corporate-industrial establishment, I get (what else?) Saturday detention. Megan starts a campaign to serve local foods in the lunchroom (oh, and can we please maybe get rid of the soda machines?) and the local newspaper does a write-up about her.
She's like me, only not. Not like me at all. She's the golden girl and I'm ... tarnished.
So forgive me if I hate her a little. — Katie Alender

I thought about checking for a pulse, but decided that could wait. I kicked the knife so it slid under the heavy cabinet — Katie Alender

This is the kind of dream you don't wake up from, Henry. — Katie Alender

Oh." He sat in confused silence for a few seconds. "Can I ask you a very serious question?"
"I rather you didn't," I said.
He stared straight into my eyes. "If you were an animal, what animal would you be?"
WAIT, WHAT? "Wait, what?"
"It's a classic icebreaker."
"If I were an ANIMAL ... ?"
He faked a sigh and checked an imaginary watch. "Your inability to answer the question doesn't bode well for-"
"I refuse to answer that," I said. "On the grounds that it's probably the stupidest thing I've ever been asked."
He stared at me, frowning. "I hear your subconscious saying MONKEY. — Katie Alender

You can leave a door open for your 'friends,' but the truth is anybody can come in through that open door. And how do you know these friends are who they say they are, anyway? — Katie Alender

I longed to be wrapped in his arms again, pour my troubles, make everything feel okay, even if it wasn't — Katie Alender

But I wouldn't tell them a thing. The less they knew, the better. I was positive of that. Ignorance is bliss, and the opposite of ignorance is the opposite of bliss. — Katie Alender

I've been bad.
I've been good.
Weak and Strong.
Brave and afraid.
A hero and a killer. — Katie Alender

That's the whole problem, isn't it?" He turned his face toward the night sky and let out a horrible laugh, like a gasp of pain. "Why are you the only person who's allowed to be strong? — Katie Alender

But there was something on the floor that hadn't been there before - a tiny image, carefully cut out of a magazine: a little box of cat food. Weird. — Katie Alender

I'M SORRY. I HAVE BEEN VERY LONELY AND STRUGGLED WITH A LOT OF THINGS. NO ONE UNDERSTANDS THE FEELINGS I'VE HAD. NO ONE IS ON MY SIDE. IT'S LIKE I'M COMPLETELY ALONE. I REALIZE THIS IS THE COWARDLY WAY OUT BUT I CAN'T STOP MYSELF FROM BEING A COWARD. MY WHOLE LIFE IS LIKE A BAD DREAM. THE KIND OF DREAM YOU DON'T WAKE UP FROM. PAIGE — Katie Alender

I know where they are.'
'Where?'
'Why should I tell you?'
'Because, if I don't have a suitcase, I can't go to Paris tomorrow, and then you're stuck with me for all of Spring Break instead of having a nine-day sister-free bonanza.'
'Good point. — Katie Alender

Hmmph. Young Republicans have weird senses of humor. — Katie Alender

Loving this quote: Find the people who treat you the way you deserve to be treated. Tell everyone else to go to hell and don't look back. — Katie Alender

And my dreams felt as real as a memory — Katie Alender

Stay sunny, we said to each other.
Because if you don't the whole world will know you're a monster. — Katie Alender

I'm a giant pimple on the face of humanity. — Katie Alender

I can't help it, Alexis," he said "I want to make you think too much ... and then I want to hear the things you've been thinking too much. — Katie Alender

I've worked hard, very hard, to get where I am. And you will have to work hard too. But when you do the work, you will see the results. — Katie Alender

some student who'd been caught putting bumper stickers that said 'Gas Guzzler' on every SUV in the parking lot. — Katie Alender

And I thought chivalry was dead!" ...
"Maybe it is. I opened a door into her head. — Katie Alender