Quotes!

"When he's nearby, my entire body knows it..." --Angela

"Have you ever just completely given up on someone, and then something happens and you go: 'Oh my god, there is so much more to this person than I ever dreamed.'?" --Angela

'The Fable'

Once upon a time, there lived a girl. She slept in a lovely little cottage made of gingerbread and candy. She was always asleep. One morning she woke up and the candy had mold on it. Her father blew her a kiss and the house fell down. She realized she was lost. She found herself walking down a crowded street but the people were made of paper; like paper dolls. She blew everyone a kiss goodbye and watched as they blew away. --Angela

"It just seems like you agree to have a certain personality or something. For no reason. Just to make things easier for everybody. But when you think about it, I mean, how do you know if it's even you? And, I mean, the whole thing with yearbook -- it's like everybody's in a big hurry to make this book, to supposedly remember what happened but it's not even what really happened, it's what everyone thinks was supposed to happen. Because if you made a book of what really happened, it'd be a really upsetting book. You know, in my humble opinion." --Angela

"Oh, you're right ... I couldn't possibly understand having an obsession for a person I have zero hope of ever becoming involved with... We're hopeless." --Angela to Rickie

"I loved Jordan Catalano so much, And talked about him so much, And thought about him so much... It was liked he live inside me. Like he'd taken possession of my soul, or something.
And then one day... I got over him!" --Angela

"I think lard's my favorite food group."-- Rayanne

'The Letter'

Dear Angela,
I know in the past I've caused you pain, and I'm sorry. And I'll always be sorry til the day I die. And I hate this pen I'm holding because I should be holding you. And I hate this paper under my hand because it isn't you. I even hate this letter because it's not the whole truth. Because the whole truth is so much more than a letter can even say. If you wanna hate me, go ahead. If you wanna burn this letter, do it. You could burn the whole world down. You could tell me to go to hell. I'd go. If you wanted me to. And I'd send you a letter from there.

Sincerely,

Jordan Catalano (Actually written by Brian)

"You're so beautiful, it hurts to look at you" --Angela (and Rayanne)

"Lately, I can't even look at my mother without wanting to stab her repeatedly."-- Angela

Rayanne: You wanna have sex with him.
Angela: Who?
Rayanne: Who. Jordan. Catalano. Come on, I'm not gonna tell anyone, just admit it.
Angela: I just like how he's always leaning. Against stuff. He leans great. Well, either sex or a conversation. Ideally both.

"My parents keep asking how school was. It's like saying, 'How was that drive-by shooting?' You don't care how it was, you're lucky to get out alive." --Angela

"I think it's the lack of meat that's destroying America." -- Graham

Patty: That girl from the other day? That rude girl?
Angela: She wasn't rude.
Patty: She finished my cheese. I had this brand new brick of cheese. She devoured it.

"People throwing themselves at people is, like, the basis of civilization." -- Rayanne

"I bet people can actually die of embarrassment. I bet it's been medically proven." --Angela

"We both stopped talking. Part of his sleeve was touching my arm. I don't know if he knew. Then everything started to seem perfect for some reason. The feel of his shirt against my elbow, the fact that I still had an elbow. It was the perfect moment for him to kiss me, to anything me." ---Angela VO

"Mom, I'm not having sex, all right? Realy! I'm not even close. To an embarrassing degree."-- Angela

"When someone compliments your parents, there's like nothing to say. It's like a stun gun to your brain." --Angela

"You know how sometimes the last sentence you said, like, echoes in your brain? And it just keeps sounding stupider? And you have to say something else just to make it stop?" --Angela

"Gee, thanks, well, I'd like to help you, sir, but I'm too busy picturing your daughter naked."
-- Graham

"Anything causes a scar -- living causes a scar. My mother has a humongous scar from having me, does that mean that I should never have been born?" -- Rayanne

"Sometimes it seems like we're all living in some kind of prison, and the crime is how much we all hate ourselves. It's good to get really dressed up once in a while and admit the truth -- that when you really look closely, people are so strange and so complicated that they're actually beautiful. Possibly even me."-- Angela

"That was yesterday. What are you gonna write today?"-- Vic

Vic: I want anger. I want honesty. I want nakedness."
Rayanne: I'm right here, baby.

"Field trips are so intense. " --Angela

"If only there was some button that I could just push to force me to
stop talking." --Angela

"Huge events take place on this earth every day: earthquakes, hurricanes, even glaciers move. So, why couldn't he just look at me?" --Angela

"Red"
I was going nowhere
Going nowhere fast
Drowning in my memories
Living in the past
Everything looked black til I found her
She's all I need and that's what I said
I call her Red...

She's my shelter from the storm
She's a place to rest my head
Late at night she keeps me safe and warm
I call her Red...
-- Jordan's song

"You don't know, you don't understand, not for one second. You think you understand, but you don't. You just analyze everything until it barely even exists." -- Angela

"This life has been a test. If it had been an actual life, you would have received actual instructions on where to go and what to do." -- Angela

"I guess I'm just sort of in the mood to have a crush on somebody where, it can't hurt too much." -- Delia

"There are so many different ways to be connected to people. There are the people you feel this unspoken connection to, even though there's not even a word for it. There's the people who you've known forever who know you in this way that other people can't because they've seen you change. They've let you change." --Angela

"Did you ever try to protecet someone so much that it, like, hurt?" --Rickie

"I can't believe this. I hate everyone." -- Angela

"In my room, one seam's a little off and I stare at it constantly. It's, like, destroying me."
-- Brian (about wallpaper)

"There's something about my life. It's just automatically true that nothing actually happens."
-- Brian

"Ten days, no drinks, no drugs. I'm so clean you could eat off me."-- Rayanne

"Finally, an erection from actual physical contact." -- Brian

Rickie: Where did you get Chinese food?
Rayanne: Two words --Tino.

Patty: I refuse to panic just because she's happy.
Graham: Although it's alarming.
Patty: Although it's terribly alarming.

"There's something about Sunday night that really makes you want to kill yourself." -- Angela

"You have the option of insanity. I do not. And that makes me crazy!"-- Brian

"Who are we trashing?" --Angela

Angela: Jordan used to, umm...
Rayanne: Yes. Jordan used to umm her.
Rayanne: They obviously haven't ummed yet.

Rickie: I can't any more! You do not know how scared I was. I thought you were dead. I was picking out clothes I should wear to your funeral!
Rayanne: Ow. Rickie, that hurt.
Rickie: Not enough.

"My whole life is waiting for something to happen." -- Danielle

Patty: Oh, come on now we're adults. Do we really need alcohol to have a good time?
Cheryl: Yeah!
Neil: Absolutely!

"In the dream I keep having about Jordan Catalano, I'm trying to catch up with him... but it's hard, because there's something wrong with the floor [her shoes are glued to the floor]. Sometimes my father's there. Sometimes my great Aunt Gertrude's funeral kinda gets mixed in with it. The end of the dream is always the same. I catch up with him. I yell and scream -- how he hurt and betrayed me, how I can never forgive him. He just stands there, like someone caught in a storm who's stopped caring how wet he gets. Then I wake up. The storm of words still pounds through my body." -- Angela

"Hatred can become like food. It gives you this energy. You can, like, live off it." -- Angela

"Forget the story. I can't think about some crappy story. My life sucks too much." --Jordan

"A person can have feelings for someone even if they're not like, THE person anymore."
-- Angela

"It's always tempting to lose yourself with someone, who's maybe lost themselves."-- Patty

"It's like you think you're safe or something, 'cause you can just walk away, anytime, because you don't like, need her. You don't need anyone. But the thing you didn't realize is, you're wrong."--Jordan

"I have all these dreams where I know exactly what to say. Then you tell me... you know... that you forgive me."-- Jordan

"If you like analyze why certain people end up with certain other people it'll make you wanna KILL yourself." -- Brian

Rickie: Oh, so they're back together?
Brian: Yup. Of course, she's still gonna die someday. We're all gonna die.

"And then, just as I'm realizing that there's hope, that we could actually communicate -- he runs away." -- Angela