Quotes:ANGELA: "People always say you should be yourself, life yourself is this defined thing, like a toaster, or something. As if I would know what that is, also. But every now and then, I'll have like...a moment to be myself, and my life right where I'm at is like...enough.""It's amazing the things you notice, like the angle of his collar that he was coming undone, like he came from a poor family and couldn't afford new shirts That's all I could see was that piece of frayed fabric , the world would stop." “Love is when you look into someone's eyes and suddenly you go all the way down to their soul, and you two know it instantly. I always imagined I would fall in love while nursing a blind soldier wounded in battle. Or maybe while saving someone in the middle of a blizzard, seconds before the avalanche hit, I thought that at least by the age of 15 I would have a love life, but I don't even have one like life."-- AngelaLa wonderful thing is when you can feel that your life is going somewhere. Like your life just figured out how to get good. Like, that second. Adults like to tell you where they were when President Kennedy was shot, which they all know to the exact second, which almost makes me jealous. As if I had to have something important enough to know where I was when it happened. Not yet. The fact that it was a better time then, when people knew what they had to do. And how to make the world better. Now nobody knows anything. We know who is popular. That social studies is boring. Or that Brian always has stomach problems. You know how sometimes the last sentence you said echoes in your brain and keeps sounding dumber? And do you have to say something else, just to make her stop? Rayanne: “You want to have sex with him.” Angela: "Who?" Rayanne: "Who. Jordan. Catalan. Come on, I won't tell anyone, just admit it." Angela: "I like how he always leans into things. He leans in great. Well, either sex or conversation, ideally both." “People always ask, 'How did it go at school? “How did that shooting go?” You don't care how it went, you're lucky to get out alive..