“The same old dumb teachers teaching the same old dumb subjects in the same old dumb school. I seem to be kind of losing interest in everything. At first I thought high school would be fun but it's just dull. Everything's dull. Maybe it's because I'm growing up and life is becoming more blase.”
“It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions. ”
“I guess high school really is ancient history,” she concludes.Ancient history? Have you really relegated us to the trash heap of the Dumb High-School Romance? And if that’s the case, why the hell can’t I do the same?”
“It's fun to do something dumb. Not something really dumb, like my second marriage. That was really really dumb.”
“Admittedly, most high school guys lack emotional intelligence. They develop it later in life."I smiled. "Are you telling me guys are dumb?”
“Everything comes in circles. [...] The old wheel turns, and the same spoke comes up. It's all been done before, and will be again.”