"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

• "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 mean, I may as well go to Bio... since I'm not all that busy." ~ Angela
• "My dad thinks every person in the world is having more fun than him. Which could be true." ~ Angela
• ""My dad and I used to be pretty tight. The sad truth is, my breasts have come between us." ~ Angela
• "This doesn't seem like a Friday." "It's Thursday." "Oh. Are you sure?" "Yesterday was Wednesday, so..." "Oh... Right." "So, that's how I know." ~ Jordan and Angela's first conversation

• Patty: "I find Rickie a little confusing."
  Angela: "Okay, so maybe he's bi.  Who cares?  His cousin can still drive."
  Patty: "What?  He's what?  Do you hear these terms she's throwing around?
          Bi?"
  Danielle: "It means bisexual."
  Graham: "He's bisexual?"
  Patty: "How can he be bi-anything?  He's a child, he's obviously very
          confused."
  Angela: "No, he's not confused."
  Patty: "He wears eye liner."
  Graham: "He does?  He wears eye liner?"
  Angela: "I thought you were on my side."
  Graham: "I'm not on anyone's side."
  Patty: "Graham.  Grow up.  Choose a side."

• "Everybody's an act. Including you." ~ Angela, to Brian

• Rickie: "If you were about to do it, okay, what would you want the other
          person to say, like, right before."
  Rayanne: "`This won't take long.'"
  Rickie: "No, seriously."
  Rayanne: "`Do I know you?'"
  Rickie: "No, like, for real.  Like, romantic."
  Angela: "`You're so beautiful, it hurts to look at you.'"
  Rayanne: "`It hurts to look at you?'"
  Rickie: "How'd you think of that?"
  Rayanne: "Where would it hurt?"
                                  ~ Rickie, Rayanne, and Angela,
                                    outside the rave

• "I'll always watch out for you.  Okay.  I'll always be there for you,
   so, don't worry, okay."
  "I won't."
  "And, you know, with your hair like that?  It hurts to look at you."
                                  ~ Rayanne and Angela

• "What I, like, dread is when people who know you in completely different ways end up in the same area. You have to develop this, like, combination you on the spot." ~ Angela
• "What's amazing is when you can feel your life going somewhere, like your life just figured out how to get good, like, that second." ~ 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 one of my personal favorites
• "Grownups like to tell you where they were when President Kennedy was shot, which they all know to the exact second. Which makes me almost jealous, like I should have something important enough to know where I was when it happened. But I don't yet. And in fact it was a better time then, and people knew what they were supposed to do and how to make the world better. Now nobody knows anything. We know who's popular, or that Social Studies is boring, or that Brian always has stomach trouble." ~ Angela
• "Are you kidding me? Hypnotized By Food could be my Indian name." ~ Graham, to Rayanne
• "When you're not sure you trust a person any more, say a person you really trusted, say your father, you start wishing they'd do something, like, really wrong, just so you can be right about them." ~ Angela
• "Let's ignore Angela. She can't help herself. She's the product of a two parent household." ~ Rayanne
• "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
• "What's really horrible is being a witness while someone's parents order them around. It ruins the conversation." ~ Angela
• "Gee, thanks, well, I'd like to help you, sir, but I'm too busy picturing your daughter naked." ~ Graham, imagining Brian's excuse for not helping him
• "Smashing Pumpkins, Rage Against the Machine, Porno for Pyros --" "Oh yeah, yeah. I love their Christmas album." ~ Angela and Graham
• "I, like all women, am becoming less and less attractive in the eyes of the world, more and more expendable as I get older, while you, like all men, are considered more desirable and more attractive the older you get. Of course, you'll die sooner." "That's right. [checks his watch] Well, we better have sex right now then." ~ Patty and Graham
• "Maybe teachers have a hidden life, where they're actually, like, human. Where they have, I don't know, dignity. Or maybe not." ~ Angela
• "So what are we supposed to do?" "Ah. I've known you all of five minute and you want me to tell you what you're supposed to do? Fine. Follow your hearts and veer away from heroin." ~ Angela and Vic
• Hiku for Him: He peels off my clothes like a starving man would peel an orange. His lips taste my juicy sweetness. My legs tangle with his. We become one being, a burning furnace in the cold cement basement of love
• "Huge events take place on this earth every day: earthquakes, hurricanes, even glaciers move. So, why couldn't he just look at me." ~ Angela on Jordan
• "You know those guys? Up in the mountain?" "What guys?" "Who make snow. Like, as their job." "Oh yeah." "I would realy like to do that." "You mean part time, or... [kisses her!!]" ~ Angela and Jordan
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