"America is like a melting pot. The ones at the bottom get burned, and the scum floats to the top."

~Charlie King

I hate women who complain about being fat when they're like a size five. Anything under a size five isn't a woman, it's a boy with breasts.

-"Obsidian Butterfly"

Love sucks. Sometimes it feels good. Sometimes it's just another way to bleed.

-"Blue Moon"

Those people who tell you not to take chances, they are all missing
out on what life is about. You only live once, so take hold of the chance."-Metallica

"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

"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

When I was little I, like, worshipped Halloween. And truthfully, part of me still does. 'Cause it's your one chance all year to be someone else.

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 would 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 fifteen, I would have a love life. But, I don't even have a "like" life.

The worst feeling is suddenly realizing that you don't measure up. And that, in the past, when you thought you did, you were a fool.

Sometimes it seems like we're all living in some kind of prison. And the crime is how much we 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. -My So Called Life

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 this whole thing with the yearbook - it's like, everybody's in this big hurry to make this book... to supposedly remember what happened, but it's not even what really happened. It's what everybody thinks was *supposed* to happen. Because if you made a book of what *really* happened, it'd be a really upsetting book. - My So Called Life

My life's work has been to prompt others and be forgotten. Remember that night when Christian came to your balcony? That moment sums up my life. While I was below in the shadows, others climbed up to kiss the sweet rose. -Cyrano de Bergerac

everyone i know
goes away in the end

"You don't get to choose, you just fall [in love]. And you get this person whose all wrong and all right at the same time. And it just works"-Party of Five

"Sometimes new love comes between old friends. Sometimes the best love was the one that was always there."-Reality Bites

"The people you care about you never really say goodbye to"-The Real World

"Everyone is strange and beautiful in their own way"-My So Called Life

"People always say how you should be yourself. Like your self is this definite thing, like a toaster or something. Like you know what it is even. But every so often, I'll have, like a moment when being myself, and my life, like, right where I am, is like, enough"-My So Called Life

"Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies"-The Shawshank Redemption

"Real love hurts; Real love makes you totally vulnerable and open; Real love will take you far beyond yourself; Therefore real love will devastate you. If love does not shatter you, You do not know love"