“It's like high school holds two different worlds, revolving around each other and never touching; the haves and the have-nots. I guess it's a good thing. High school is supposed to prepare you for the real world, after all.”
“I suppose he's making a real fashion statement, but this is high school. You're not supposed to be real. You're supposed to be enough like everyone else to get through and out into the waiting world.”
“In spite of everything, I still didn't miss high school. The real world, even with all its problems, suited me just fine.”
“The only thing that separated the so-called real world from high school was a locker combination”
“School prepares you for the real world but I want the fake world. TEEHEE”
“But it's high school. It's not real love, or at least you can't be sure it's real love. Real love is messy and complicated and brutal. It's been tested. Zik and Michelle have never been tested by anything mroe than being separated by a couple of classes.”