"School is a battlefield for your heart."
--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

"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."
-- Angela, to Ms. Mayhew

"These guys started hitting on us."
"What? Like sexual harrassment?"
"Like guys."
-- Angela and Brian

"People throwing themselves at people is, like, _the_ basis of civilization."
-- Rayanne, to Angela

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

"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

"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

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