“The Edge of Seventeen” quotes

“You know, ever since we were little, I would get this feeling like... Like I'm floating outside of my body, looking down at myself... And I hate what I see... How I'm acting, the way I sound. And I don't know how to change it. And I'm so scared... That the feeling is never gonna go away.”
Hailee Steinfeld - Nadine

- Mr. Bruner: "You're complicated, and simple, and I feel this connection between us. I feel like I already know you". This is kinda sweet, I think you're overreacting. "I just want to be with you. I want to give you... head. I want you to put your mouth on my tits. I want to feel you inside me. We can do it in the Petland stockroom."
- Nadine:... (continue)(continue reading)

Woody Harrelson - Mr. Bruner
Hailee Steinfeld - Nadine

“I had the worst thought: I've got to spend the rest of my life with myself.”
Hailee Steinfeld - Nadine

“Wow. I actually was writing my own suicide note just now. I have 32 fleeting minutes of happiness during lunch, which has been eaten up again and again by the same especially badly dressed student, and I finally thought I would rather have the dark nothingness.”
Woody Harrelson - Mr. Bruner

“Life's about taking risks. Don't be afraid to put yourself out there.”
Woody Harrelson - Mr. Bruner

“- Nadine: Look I don't wanna take up a ton of your time, but I'm gonna kill myself. I just thought someone should know. I don't really know how this works. I'm probably gonna jump off an overpass in front of a semi, so... Or U-Haul, maybe, just not a bus. I'm not gonna be a dick and make people watch, but it has to be big; it's gotta be so big...” (continue)(continue reading)
Hailee Steinfeld - Nadine
Woody Harrelson - Mr. Bruner

“Once, my grandpa's pajama flap accidentally came open, and I saw his wiener and got real sad.”
Ava Grace Cooper - Young Krista

“- Nadine: Hey.
- Mr. Bruner: Busy.
- Nadine: I don't wanna take up a ton of your time, but I'm gonna kill myself. I just thought an adult should know.”
Hailee Steinfeld - Nadine
Woody Harrelson - Mr. Bruner

“- Mr. Bruner: Are you having a problem today, Nadine?
- Nadine: Several. I don't really have any friends at the moment.”
Woody Harrelson - Mr. Bruner
Hailee Steinfeld - Nadine

“There are two types of people in the world: The people who naturally excel at life. And the people who hope all those people die in a big explosion.”
Hailee Steinfeld - Nadine

Here's what I do when I'm feeling down. I get very quiet and very still. And I say to myself, "Everyone in the world is as miserable and empty as I am. They're just better at pretending". Try it sometime. It might bring you some peace.
Kyra Sedgwick - Mona

“My mom has to take medicine, or she'll get upset and buy too much at the mall.”
Lina Renna - Young Nadine

“Don't be awkward. Socialize.”
Hailee Steinfeld - Nadine

“You know what? I'm gonna go ahead, and I'm gonna tell you the real reason I'm having my lunch with you today. You see, I don't really have any friends, at the moment, and, to be completely honest with you, I'm not interested. At all. My entire generation is a bunch of mouth breathers. They literally have a seizure if you take their phone away...” (continue)(continue reading)
Hailee Steinfeld - Nadine

“- Mona: I wanna go home, fix my hair, put on a beautiful face of makeup, the best dress I own, then take it all off and go to sleep.
- Nadine: Fun!”
Kyra Sedgwick - Mona
Hailee Steinfeld - Nadine

“Life isn't fair sometimes, Nadine, okay? You gotta get over it!”
Blake Jenner - Darian