Sometimes someone says something really small, and it just fits right into this empty place in your heart. ~From the television show My So-Called Life I couldn't stop thinking about it. The, like, fact that - that people - had sex. That they just *had* it, like sex was this thing people - *had*, like a rash. Or a - a Rottweiler. Everything started to seem like, pornographic or something. Like, Mrs. Krysanowski has sex. So does Mr. Katimsky. They both have sex. They could - have sex together. Like right now… I am the *sickest* person. -My So Called Life 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. -My So Called Life "Everybody know there's, like, 50 guns at school at any given moment. And the fact that they haven't gone off before shows you what a totally safe place this is." -- Rayanne "There are so many different ways to be connected to people. There are the people you feel this unspoken connection to, even though there's not even a word for it. There's the people who you've known forever who know you in this way that other people can't because they've seen you change. They've let you change." -- Angela But that's the part that's so unfair. I have nothing else on my mind. How come I have to be the one sitting around analyzing him in like microscopic detail, and he gets to be the one with other things on his mind. -my so called life You know you like her -- would it kill you to admit it, maybe treat her halfway decent? Because you know, she deserves it. And she's not gonna wait around for you forever. -my so called life I want to see him so much, but at the same time, it's like, I don't just wanna see him...with, like, no preparation. -my so called life We both stopped talking. Part of his sleeve was touching my arm. I don't know if he knew. Then everything started to seem perfect, for some reason. The feel of his shirt against my elbow. The fact that I still had an elbow. It was the perfect moment for him to kiss me...for him to anything me. -My So Called Life “See, when I look at myself I see everything in like slow motion and I think, *something* has to happen. Only it never does, so I have to make it happen.” -My So Called Life Brian: Here, do you want to... borrow my sweater? Angela: Thanks. Brian: Just don't… sweat into it or anything. Angela: Why do you always have to say stuff like that? -My So Called Life 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

• Angela: You see theres thinking about, right? Which I do, all the time. It keeps me going or something, like I need it just to get through the day. It just-- if you make it real, its not the same, its not yours anymore. I don’t know, maybe id rather have a fantasy than even him.

Rayanne: I totally and completely disagree. You want Jordan catalano, in actuality, because -- there is no because, you just want him. Only youre programmed to never admit it.

• Angela: Its weird how something has to happen sometimes to see how you really feel about someone.
• Rayanne: Are you kidding, this is fun! Everybody running around, all upset, rumors flying! Cant you feel it, its like being alive. Man, its such a rush… all that conversation. People writing notes, and they- they look at you different like trying to figure out who you really are, like youre famous. Admit it, its really great.
• Angela: Huge events take place on this earth everyday. Earthquakes, hurricanes, even glaciers move. So why couldn’t he just… look at me…?
• Angela: because it-- it is a big deal. i mean, sex made your whole life start and if you think about life as like a circle or something , then sex and death are the same, i mean im not- im not saying theyre the same, ive thought about having sex with you and-- God, ive never seriously thought about killing you...
• Angela: I loved Jordon Catalano so much and talked about him so much and thought about hime so much and it was like he lived inside me like he had taken possesion of my soul or something. and then one day-- i got over him.