Speak Quotes
"If there is anyone in the entire galaxy I am dying to tell what really happened, it's Rachel."
"I stand in the center aisle of the auditorium, a wounded zebra in a National Geographic special."
"I have entered high school with the wrong hair, the wrong clothes, the wrong attitude."
"We fall into clans: Jocks, Country Clubbers, Idiot Savants, Cheerleaders, Human Waste, Eurotrash, Future Fascists of America, Big Hair Chix, the Marthas, Suffering Artists, Thespians, Goths, Shredders."
"The first ten lies they tell you in high school."
"Only 699 days and 7 class periods until graduation."
"The cheerleaders confuse me because I missed out on Sunday School."
"I am a good actor. I have a whole range of smiles."
"The room screams Heather. Why can't I figure out how to do that?"
"Deprived of Victim, Mom and Dad holler at each other."
"Math is easy because there is no room for debate. The answer is right or it is wrong."
"I knew why I had to memorize my multiplication tables. Understanding fractions, and decimals, and percentages, and even geometry—all that was practical."
"Every single day, someone asks Mr. Stetman why we have to learn algebra."
"I am prepared. I refuse to spend the night moping in my room or listening to my parents argue."
"I see a girl caught in the remains of a holiday gone bad, with her flesh picked off day after day as the carcass dries out."
"I am still sitting on the floor, holding the paper and charcoals. I didn't even say 'Thank you.'"
"I am one of them. I don't want to be there either."
"I just do what I'm told. If I felt like talking, I would explain that she couldn't pay me enough to play on her basketball team."
"Our art room is blooming like a museum full of O'Keeffes, van Goghs, and that French guy who painted flowers with tiny dots."
"I can see it in my head: a strong old oak tree with a wide scarred trunk and thousands of leaves reaching to the sun."
"Principal Principal stormed in yesterday, smelling pleasure."
"Our frog lies on her back. Waiting for a prince to come and princessify her with a smooch?"
"Heather has landed a modeling job at a department store in the mall."
"I like cheeseburgers too much to be a model."
"Principal Principal: 'We all agree we are here to help.'"
"When Mr. Neck isn't looking, Andy blows in my ear."
"Your imagination is paralyzed," he declares. "You need to take a trip."
"You need to visit the mind of a Great One," continues Mr. Freeman.
"See Picasso," he commands. "I can't do everything for you. You must walk alone to find your soul."
"Art is about making mistakes and learning from them."
"Art without emotion is like chocolate cake without sugar. It makes you gag."
"When people don't express themselves, they die one piece at a time."
"You did a good job with that Cubist sketch," he says. "You are learning more than you know."
"I think you have a lot to say. I'd like to hear it."
"Nothing quieter than snow. The sky screams to deliver it, a hundred banshees flying on the edge of the blizzard. But once the snow covers the ground, it hushes as still as my heart."
"Be the tree. Perfect trees don't exist. Nothing is perfect. Flaws are interesting."