I'm in love. His name is Jordan Catalano. He was let back, twice. Once I almost touched his shoulder in the middle of a pop quiz. He's always closing his eyes like it hurts to look at things.
Angela Chase
Like with boys, how they have it so easy. How you have to pretend that you don't notice them... noticing you.
Angela Chase
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 Chase
Sometimes I think if my mother wasn't so good at pretending to be happy she might be better at actually being happy.
Angela Chase
Things were getting to me. Just how people are. How they always expect you to be a certain way. Even your best friend.
Angela Chase
Walking into someone else’s house for the first time is like entering another country. Not that I’ve ever been to another country.
Angela Chase
I bet people can actually die of embarrassment. I bet it's been medically proven.
Angela
If only there were a button somewhere that I could push to force me to stop talking.
Angela
It had become the focus of everything. It was all I could feel, all I could think about. It blotted out the rest of my face, the rest of my life. Like the zit had become... the truth about me.
Angela
Lately, I can’t even look at my mother without wanting to stab her repeatedly.
Angela
My dad thinks every person in the world is having more fun than him. Which could be true.
Angela
Sometimes someone says something really small and it just fits into this empty place in your heart.
Angela
There's the people who you've known forever who, like, know you in this way that other people can't, because they've seen you change...they've let you change.
Angela
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.
Angela
This life has been a test. If this had been an actual life, you would have received instructions on where to go and what to do.
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.
Angela
Finally! An erection from actual, physical contact!
Brian
Do we have to keep talking about religion? It’s Christmas!
Danielle
God, Chelsea Clinton. Will you look at this? No freedom, no privacy, constant surveillance, Secret Service men... That's what we need.
Patty