You have to be the prude or the slut, and if you pick one, other people hate you for it, and you can’t trust anyone anymore, because they’re all after the same thing, and you see that you can never go back to how was before…

Ned Vizzini
About This Quote

The connotations of this quote are what you do in high school when there is a very limited choice in which people you can be friends with. You can either be the “prude” and sit in the corner and not talk to anyone, or you can be “that girl” who is talking to everyone and every one wants to be in your group. Either way, you will not fit in with either group and no one will like you for it.

Some Similar Quotes
  1. I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us. - Veronica Roth
  2. The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace. - Mahatma Gandhi
  3. Keep your best wishes, close to your heart and watch what happens - Tony Deliso
  4. I met an old lady once, almost a hundred years old, and she told me, 'There are only two questions that human beings have ever fought over, all through history. How much do you love me? And Who's in charge? - Elizabeth Gilbert
  5. This life is yours. Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well. Take the power to love what you want in life and love it honestly. Take the power to walk in the forest and be a part of... - Susan Polis Schutz
More Quotes By Ned Vizzini
  1. That's a sweet piece, " said Jean, briefly forgetting to be aggravated. "You didn't snatch that off a street."" No, " said Locke, before taking another deep draught of the warm water in the decanter. "I got it from the neck of the governor's mistress.""...
  2. If reassurances could dull pain, nobody would ever go to the trouble of pressing grapes.
  3. Locke sighed.' So this is winning, ' he said.' It is, ' replied Jean. 'It can go fuck itself, ' said Locke.
  4. A boy may be as disagreeable as he pleases, but when a girl refuses to crap sunshine on command, the world mutters darkly about her moods.
  5. Advice, " Doña Vorchenza chuckled. "Advice. The years play a sort of alchemical trick, transmuting one's mutterings to a state of respectability. Give advice at forty and you're a nag. Give it at seventy and you're a sage.
Related Topics