Curtis Sittenfeld Quotes About School
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High school is very intense for everyone. But at a boarding school, because you're there 24 hours a day, everything gets magnified.
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When you are a high school girl, there is nothing more miraculous than a high school boy.
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My boarding school experience was the only thing I had strong enough feelings to write about for hundreds and hundreds of pages. I can still smell the formaldehyde of the fetal pigs in biology.
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I was 16 years old, attending boarding school, and I loved Pride and Prejudice. From the opening pages, I loved it. And I will say in my class, not one but two boys told me that I reminded them of Lizzy Bennet. I didn't realize it at the time but this was the nicest thing that any male would ever say to me. This was as good as it got.
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