Quotes from Charles Benoit

There's always a but. It's a magical word. You can say anything you want, go on for as long as you want, and then all you have to do is add the magic word and instantly everything you said is erased, turned meaningless, just like that.

The teachers complain that the students today are all lazy, ignorant, and stupid. But the truth is that you're smarter than they are. You're not even old enough to drive and you already know that none of this matters.

When did swearing become so easy? You still would never swear in front of your parents or most adults, but when you're with your friends it's like every fifth word. Why couldn't learning Spanish be that easy?

If you thought about it you'd realize that you don't have control over everything, but you control how you react

Your whole life is a chain of choices- your choices

Here are the Top Ten things that your parents say to you: -Is that all you're going to do all day, sit in front of the computer? -When I was your age I had two jobs. -Why don't you wear some clothes that fir for a change? -Turn it down. I can hear it all the way over here. -You're not eating that for dinner. -Did you do your homework? -Stop mumbling and speak up. -Now what did you do? -Because I said so. -No.

You're surprised at all the blood. He looks over at you, eyes wide, mouth dropping open, his face almost as white as his shirt. He's surprised, too.

If there was something that all the time had in common, what your English teacher would call a "theme," it would be this: Don't get caught.

Ms. Casey is standing in front of the class explaining how she worked all weekend to get the tests graded so she could hand them back on Monday morning, and you're wondering if you're supposed to be impressed that she did her job.

The textbooks are dumbed down to the where your kid sister could probably read them, and the teacher go over and over and over the same stuff anyway, drilling it into your head so that they can ask you one hundred multiple-choice questions to get it all back out of you again.

Victoria glares at him. 'It doesn't mean anything if you don't mean it.' Zach smiles. 'My dear, I never mean it.

Think When did it go wrong? The break-in? No, before that. The party? That was part of it, but that wasn't when it started. Zack? Of course, yeah, it would be easy to say it was Zack. But that's not it, is it? Before Zack. Before Ryan. Before Max and Derrick or that whole thing with the wallet. Before Ashley. Before tenth grade even began. And you're thinking, this can't be it.

The rule is any decent-looking girl asks to share your drink or have a lick of your ice cream or take a bite of a sandwich, you say yes. It's gross if you think about it, especially like now, Kristi's lips all covered with Ryan's spit, but there are some rules even you wouldn't break.

It's important to keep in mind that you have control over your year, If you don't like the direction your life is going—then you have the power to change it. If you're not happy where you're at, figure out where you want to be and make it happen.

Joan Jett at the far left, staring straight into the camera, her eyes dragging me in. Just like the mystery chick at the Stop-N-Go.

from Hawaii, and it would be late Sunday night before they arrived. "What time will you be home?" "I'm going to crash here tonight," I said. Now, that wasn't true—I didn't know where I'd be sleeping—but Karla told me to plan for an all-nighter, and saying I was at Jay's was as good a lie as any. "Will there be beer?

You better not come home with your clothes smelling like marijuana." The way she said it—mary-ju-wanna—made it sound like some exotic,

And if I could change my peer-driven party-animal self, maybe I could change everything.

The floor behind the driver's seat was littered with eight-tracks, but at night it was always Frampton Comes Alive!

Better to just hold on and try not to flinch.

There was a pothole thump, and "Wind of Change" jumped back to "Show Me the Way.

Not that, this." She took her hands off the wheel and stretched out her arms, the car inching closer to oncoming traffic. "This town, these people, the same old shit every week. I'm done with it. All of it.

We're doing something different tonight," she said, ending the discussion. "We're going to a party up by the campus.

Say something cheesy now and that was it, you were the class suck-up, say something clever and you were the smart-ass, say something stupid and you were forever stupid.