Andrea Seigel Quotes

Let's face it. No kid in high school feels as though they fit in.

I think all teenagers feel alone, and that nobody else knows what they are going through and all that sort of stuff.

I didn't even go to my prom. I didn't have one date in high school.

Junior and senior high school years were not a good time.

I was a very repressed young person. I wasn't good at school. I didn't fit in.

I had a really tough time in high school.

The fact is, it wasn't enjoyable being in secondary school. I was a weird kid.

I was a loner; I spent the first half of high school alone.

I didn't make a lot of friends in high school. It's a cruel time, and I was very geeky.

In junior high school, I was an object of pure ridicule for my dress, withdrawal, and asocial manner. Dozens of times, I saw individuals laugh and smile more in ten to fifteen minutes than I did in all my life up to then.

I've never been a social person. When I grew up, the other girls would all be combing their hair and exchanging lipstick, and I just couldn't do that group thing.

Sometimes it was difficult to make friends and be social in school because I was always practicing while other kids were getting together and doing things. But it just made me closer to my family, and I realized that they would always be there no matter what.

I just wanted to fit in as a teenager, but it was hopeless.

As a teenager at high school, I felt like an outsider.

I've never had friends, and I don't like to be around big groups of people.

I've spent my whole life not talking to people, and I don't see why I should start now.

Sometimes I feel like there are people just waiting for me to fall. The funny thing is, I can't give them anything. I have just never been a partier, even in school.

I never dated much in high school or college.

I was almost tragically shy, like, clinically. I should've been admitted somewhere. I think my parents knew, but maybe they didn't think much about it. It's hard walking the Earth shy. You miss out on a lot.

Because I was a diminutive, arty kid, I felt like a misfit in high school - but who doesn't?

I was always the kid at the side of the playground, looking at the other kids. I didn't know how to get into the group. I was quiet and bookish, a bit of a geek. I was into orienteering when my friends were out clubbing.

I went to university and I was a bit out of my depth, socially.

I'd dropped out of high school without really doing it on purpose - I'd just go home at lunch 'cos I didn't have friends, then stay there all afternoon listening to rap. It got to the point where I wouldn't have passed even if I'd gone back. I was depressed, basically.

I liked Columbia, but it was like high school in that there was this big social world that I was not part of. I existed on the side, far away. That might be temperamental, my own fear of large groups, more than anything else. But I had a handful of professors who meant a lot to me.

I'm still a recluse. I still hate everyone. I'm still a misanthrope.