My So-Called Life Quotes ...

"I did an undefendable thing, I created my own prison and I have to exist in it. Maybe I had a wish or whatever, to punish you. An unconscious wish, you've heard of them, right?" - My So-Called Life

"When he's around, my whole body knows it. I'll keep talking and stuff, but my mind will have no idea what I'm saying. I keep wondering if there's a term for this." - My So-Called Life

"When someone dies young it's like they stay that way forever." - My So-Called Life

"Things are getting to me. Just how people are. How they always expect you to be a certain way. Even your best friend." - My So-Called Life

"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." - My So-Called Life

"If life was like a giant VCR, our lives would be a lot of video tape. And we could just fast forward past the really bad stuff, and rewind the really good stuff. Except, with my luck, I'd probably lose the remote ... and get stuck at like, cheerleader day in the cafeteria." - My So-Called Life

"My whole life is waiting for something to happen." - My So-Called Life

"Sometimes I think that if I wasn't so good at pretending to be, I'd be better at actually being happy." - My So-Called Life

"when i was little i like, worshipped halloween. and truthfully, part of me still does. cuz it's your one chance all year to be someone else." - my so Called Life

"I know in the past I've caused you pain and I'm sorry and I'll always be sorry until the day I die. I hate this paper in my hand because it isn't you. I even hate this letter 'cause 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 can burn the whole world down ... you can tell me to go to hell ... I'd go if you wanted me to and I'd send you a letter from there." - My So Called Life

"And then, just as I'm realizing that there's hope, that we could actually communicate -- he runs away." - My So-Called Life

"I have all these dreams where I know exactly what to say, and you tell me, you know, that you forgive me." - My So-Called Life

"I have this connection with him, though he doesn't see it. It's like I turn around without a reason I can think of and he's either passing by or is standing nearby. I can pick him out of a crowd of over a hundred almost instantly sometimes. It's almost as if I can feel his presence." -My So-Called Life

"You've changed so much. I guess that's what happens. I wish you knew how much you've changed me. I wonder if I've changed you; if your life is different because of me. Because mine's different. My God, you taught me so much, and now we don't even talk to each other. I guess that's what happens..." - My So-Called Life

"You lost nothing. You lost a selfish, no good friend, a guy you never really had... I lost a really good friend. I lost everything." - My So-Called Life

"No one knows I come out here on nights. I look up to your window but you're never there. Only your horrible dog who used to bite me. And I realize I'm not angry at you; things change. I can forgive you, but I want to kill you." - My So-Called Life

"I loved [Jordan Catalano] so much, and talked about him so much, and thought about him so much, it was like he lived inside me. Like he had taken possession of my soul, or something. And then one day, I got over him!" - My So-Called Life

"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." - My So-Called Life

"Sometimes someone says something really small... and if just fits into this empty space in your heart. And you can feel it settling in there, maybe for the rest of your life." - My So-Called Life

"It's weird how something has to happen sometimes to see how you actually feel for someone." - My So-Called Life

"I guess you can't hurt someone unless you really matter to them." - My So-Called Life

"It's always tempting to lose yourself with someone, who's maybe lost themselves." - My So-Called Life

"You're so beautiful, it hurts to look at you." - My So-Called Life

"I am not the kind of girl who thinks a guy is the answer to everything... I'm just tired being alone." - My So-Called Life

"I guess I'm just sort of in the mood to have a crush on somebody where it can't hurt too much." - My So-Called Life

"Have you ever completely given up on someone, and then something happens and you go 'Oh my God, there's so much more to this person than I ever dreamed'?" - My So-Called Life

"Lists, notes, and gossip, is that what everything boils down to after a certain point? Like whatever we are, if we can even figure that out, doesn't matter? The only thing that matters is who and what other people think we are, and how they rank us?" - My So-Called Life

"Have you ever felt like you could cry because you know that you just heard the most important thing anybody in the world could have spoken at that moment?" - My So Called Life

"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?" - 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?" - My So-Called Life

"You know you like her. Would it kill you to admit it, maybe treat her half way decent? Because you know, she deserves it. And she's not gonna wait around for you forever." - My So-Called Life

"You don't know, you don't understand, not for one second. You think you understand, but you don't. You just analyze everything until it barely even exists." - My So-Called Life

"It's like you think you're safe or something, cause you can just walk away, anytime because you don't need him. You don't need anyone. But the thing you don't realize is, you're wrong." - My So-Called Life

"A lot of people get flipped out if you're quiet. They say stuff like, 'What are you thinking?' And if they don't start interrogating you, they start talking ... going on and on about stuff that's totally irrelevant. And the silence gets so big and loud that it's scary." - My So-Called Life

"Everybody is an act, including you." - My So-Called Life

"There's the people 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." - My So-Called Life

"Nobody's interested in the truth. All they care about is what they want to believe." -My So Called Life

"It's amazing the things you notice. Like the corner of his collar that was coming undone, like he was from a poor family and couldn't afford new shirts. That's all I could see, the whole world was that unraveled piece of fabric. It's such a lie that you should do what's in your heart. If we all did what was in our hearts, the world would come to a halt." - 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

"That's when the change happened. Just like that. Somewhere in those few seconds. I knew my life would never be the same." - My So-Called Life

"But maybe it is, because you just did what you wanted and didn't care about what damage it did to anybody else." - My So-Called Life

"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