Quotes from My-Called Life

• "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." –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

• "Cafeteria is the embarrassment capital of the world. It's like a prison movie." --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

• ”I bet people can actually die of embarrassment. I bet it’s been medically proven.” –Angela

• "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 look closely, people are so strange and complicated that they're actually beautiful. Possibly even me." --Angela

• "Maybe teachers have a hidden life, where they're actually, like, human, where they haven I don't know, dignity. Or maybe not." --Angela

• The Fable: Once upon a time there lived a girl. She slept in a lovely cottage made of gingerbread and candy. She was always asleep. One morning she woke up, and the candy had mould on it. Her father blew her a kiss and the house fell down. She realised 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

• "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

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

• ”When someone dies young, it’s like they stay that way, forever, forever, like a vampire.” --Angela

• "Walking into someone's house for the first time is like entering another country. Not that I've ever been to another country."—Angela

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

• "So my feeling is, whatever happens, happens.” "I have to say, I really respect that” -- Jordan and Angela

• "I don't even believe in making plans. Whatever happens, happens.” "That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard in my life." -- Brian and Angela

• ”Why are you like this?” “Like what?” “Like how you are.” --Jordan and Angela

• ”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 don’t realise is, you’re wrong.” --Jordan

• Dear Angela,
  I know in the past I've caused you pain, and I'm sorry. And I'll always be sorry till the day I die. And I hate this pen I'm holding, because I should be holding you. 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
  --The letter written by Brian