“Do you do everything you're told? Oh, God. You do.”

Helen Hunt - Lynne Stone

“- Alison Kantrowitz: I never have to listen to you ever again. I saw you. I was there. You should have seen yourself. You looked disgusting! I'm the teenager! Not you! You had your chance.
- Pearl Kantrowitz: No. I didn't.
- Alison Kantrowitz: Well then why do the rest of us have to suffer just because you fucked up your life!”

Anna Paquin - Alison Kantrowitz
Diane Lane - Pearl Kantrowitz

“That summer I turned seventeen... and started planning my escape.”
Natalie Portman - Ann August

“High school is a lot like prison: bad food, high fences, the sex you want you ain't getting, the sex you getting you don't want.”
Eddie Griffin - Luther

“- Walter P. 'Duff' Duffy: We should make up some fake names.
- John Plummer: Why?
- Walter P. 'Duff' Duffy: Just in case we have to communicate while we're inside.
- John Plummer: Ok.
- Walter P. 'Duff' Duffy: I wanna be Kyle. I knew this guy at camp. He was maybe 13. He got two girlspregnant, man. Two girlspregnant. Yea, Kyle.”
Tom Greening - Walter P. 'Duff' Duffy
Jason Lee - John Plummer