“He had never been to a party like this and it struck him as a little bizarre, like a feverish nightmare version of school. It was the exact same mass of people, but they had all shown up in the middle of the night, and now there were no teachers and everyone stood in the hallways talking as loudly as possible, and there were no classes except lunch, or else the classes were all different and he hadn't ever studied for any of them.” High SchoolLunchPartiesSimon BertucciHigh School Parties Book:You Source: You
“Depending on how you looked at it, Darren was our Mick Jagger (designated swaggering extrovert) to Simon's Keith Richards (quietly virtuosic, blatantly self-destructive). Or else Darren had been Paul McCartney (chirpily commercial) and Simon had been John Lennon (moody, introspective, possessed of quasi-mystical insights).” Self DestructiveExtrovertJohn LennonCommercialPaul MccartneyKeith RichardsMick JaggerSimon BertucciDarren AckermanMoody IntrospectiveQuasi Mystical InsightsVirtuosic Book:You Source: You
“Another teen friendship, another tiny mysterious universe.” FriendshipTeenagersRussell MarshSimon BertucciDarren AckermanTeen FriendshipTiny Mysterious Universes Book:You Source: You