QUOTES FROM THE SHOW, "My So-Called Life:
ANGELA:"People always say you should be yourself, life yourself is this definate thing, like a toaster, or something. Like you can know what it is, even. But ever so often, i'll have like...a moment where being myself, and my life right where I am is like...enough".
It just seems like, you agree to have a certain personality or something. For no reason. Just to make things easier for everyone. But when you think about it, I mean, how do you know it's even you? And, i mean, this whole thing with yearbook..it's like, everybody's in this big hurry to make this book, to supposedly remember what happened. Because if you made a book of what really happened, it'd be a really upsetting book".
"So I started hanging out with Rayanne Graff. Just for fun. Just cause it
seemed like if I didn't, I would die or something. Things were getting to
me. Just how people are. How they always expect you to be a certain way,
even your best friend."
--Angela
"School is a battlefield for your heart. So when Rayanne Graff told
me my hair was holding me back, I had to listen. 'Cause she wasn't
just talking about my hair. She was talking about my life."
-- Angela
"My dad thinks every person in the world is having more fun than him.
Which could be true."
-- Angela
"Cafeteria is the embarrassment capital of the world. It's like a prison
movie."
-- Angela
Sharon: "Okay, great. So, just, never speak to me again. Real mature, Angela."
Angela: "No, I _want_ to speak to you. I never wanted --"
Sharon: "No, forget it! God, you and your hair. Did Patty, like, hemorrhage first
time she saw it?"
Angela: "In a sense."
Sharon: "Well, I have to say. I hate it."
-- Sharon and Angela, the bathroom scene
"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
Episode 1.2 - Introductory Kisses
"I bet people can actually die of embarrassment. I bet it's been
medically proven."
-- Angela, to Rayanne
Episode 1.3 - Guns and Gossip
"It's amazing the things you notice. Like the corner of his collar
that was coming undone, like he was from a poor family and couldn't
afford new shirts. That's all I could see. The whole world
was that unraveled piece of fabric. It's such a lie that you should
do what's in your heart. If we all did what was in our hearts,
the world would come to a halt."
-- Angela, on Jordan
"It's weird how something has to happen sometimes to see how you actually
feel about someone."
-- Angela
"Could you imagine Rickie in a high-security prison? Who'd supply his
makeup?"
-- Rayanne, to Angela
"Man, all that conversation. People writing notes. They look at you
different, like trying to figure out who you really are, like you're
famous. Admit it, it's really great."
-- Rayanne, to Angela
Episode 1.4 - Fathers Figures
"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
"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
Episode 1.5 - The Zit
"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 to Angela
"By looking in the mirror, okay? By looking at you, at the way you look
at me. By the way you instruct me on how to wash my face so I don't
get zits. Like you have to _fix_ me, like you're ashamed of me. You
expect me to be beautiful. 'Cause you're beautiful. Well, I'm sorry,
I'm not. I'm just not."
-- Angela, to Patty
"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
Episode 1.6 - The Substitute
"That was yesterday. What are you gonna write today?"
-- Vic, to Angela
"A 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 molde 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.
-- written by Angela
"When I'm a mother I'll get revenge. I'll ask questions that miss the
entire point. I'll smile when you want to kill me. I'll throw away
your favorite skirt and never admit it."
-- a student's submission to Liberty Lit
"No one knows I come out here nights. I look up to your window, but
you're never there. Only your horrible dog who used to bite me. And I
realize I'm not angry at you. Things change. I can forgive you, but
I want to kill you."
-- a student's submission to Liberty Lit
"Beautiful, concise, excellent grammar, impeccable punctuation. It is
a little difficult to read, of course, with this footprint."
-- English class substitute #2,
on Angela's Oak Tree poem
Episode 1.7 - Why Jordan Can't Read
"Love is when you look into someone's eyes and suddenly you go all the
way inside, to their soul, and you both know instantly. I always
imagined I'd fall in love nursing a blind soldier who was wounded in
battle. Or maybe while rescuing someone in the middle of a blizzard,
seconds before the avalanche hits. I thought at least by the age of 15
I'd have a love life, but I don't even have a like life."
-- Angela
"Field trips are so intense. It's like everybody's been let out of
their cages or something, and we're all roaming around."
-- 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, on (who else?) Jordan
"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, to Brian
"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
"Because it's never happened to you. I mean, just wait 'til it happens to
you, Brian. Seriously, I cannot wait until it happens to you. Cause I
am gonna look at you, and I am gonna laugh, and I'll say, `See? See?
I told you so."
-- Angela, to Brian
