- Richard Katimski: [reading to the class] "My mistress eyes are nothing like the sun. Coral is far more red than her lips' red. If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun. If hair be wires, black wires grow on her head. I have seen roses damas red and white, but no such roses see I in her cheeks. And some perfumes is there more delight than in the breath that from my mistress reeks. I love to hear her speak, yet well I know that music hath a far more pleasing sound. I grant I never saw a Goddess go. My mistress when she walks treads on the ground, and yet, by Heaven, I think my love as rare as any she belied with false compare."
- [addresses the class]
- Richard Katimski: What kind of a girl is Shakespeare describing here? Is she the most beautiful girl?
- Brian: No.
- Richard Katimski: Is she a Goddess? Physically perfect? The kind of girl who stops traffic when she walks down the street?
- Brian: [laughs] No.
- Richard Katimski: So he's not in love with her?
- Jordan: Yeah. He is.
- Richard Katimski: And why is that? Why is he in love with her? What is it about her?
- Brian: That she's not just a fantasy. She's got, like, flaws. She's real.
- Richard Katimski: Thank you.
- Angela: [stops kissing Jordan] Don't say "hello," or anything.
- Jordan: Hello.
- Angela: I can't believe I came here. Why did you ask me to come here?
- [raises voice]
- Angela: Why are you like this?
- Jordan: Like what?
- Angela: Like how you are!
- Jordan: So leave.
- Angela: Admit it, first.
- Jordan: Admit what?
- Angela: That all of this happened. That you have emotions. That you can't, like, treat me one way in front of your friends and the next minute leave me some note.
- [pause]
- Angela: And by the way, I spell my name with one L.
- Sharon Cherski: Okay, so what's the deal with Angela and Jordan Catalano?
- Rayanne: Here's an idea... ask her!
- Sharon Cherski: I can't! She'll think I'm checking up on her. So are they, like, a couple?
- Rayanne: From the point of view of what I believe or what she believes?
- Sharon Cherski: From the point of view of reality.
- Rayanne: What do you think?
- Sharon Cherski: I'd have to say, I think she could really get hurt.
- Rayanne: Tell me something I don't know.
- Angela: My whole life became like divided, into kissing... and not kissing. Kissing... and... not... kissing.
- Shane: Catalano! In your own world much? You going to Buffalo Tom on Friday?
- Jordan: Buffalo Tom?
- Shane: Yeah, Tino found out they're playing at Pike Street Friday night. Like, unannounced.
- Jordan: Oh yeah?
- Shane: Yeah, for a set.
- Jordan: Sure. Okay.
- Shane: Yeah, so...
- Jordan: So, Buffalo Tom. Okay. Well, later.
- [goes to meet Angela]
- Shane: Oh, okay. Later.
- Angela: I have all this geometry.
- Jordan: I was hoping you'd be here.
- Angela: So you're going to Buffalo Tom?
- Jordan: What?
- Angela: Buffalo Tom. Didn't I hear that they're playing at Pike Street? I mean, I think I heard that somewhere.
- Jordan: [hesitates] Oh, yeah. I'm going. Why?
- Angela: No reason.
- [kisses Jordan]
- Shane: Hey Graff, wanna play?
- Rayanne: Ew, shut up.
- [approaches Jordan]
- Rayanne: 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.
- Shane: Man, they're like, weird. You know? Both of them.
- Angela: I'm not discussing Jordan Catalano.
- Sharon Cherski: Why not? Why is he keeping you two a secret?
- Angela: How do you know he's keeping us a secret?
- Sharon Cherski: Rayanne told me.
- Rayanne: Look, the only reason we talk like this is because we care about you. When I was drinking and drugging, you wanted me to stop, as my friend.
- Angela: Wait... you're comparing me making out with Jordan Catalano to you getting your stomach pumped?
- Rayanne: You don't see the connection?
- Sharon Cherski: The connection is self-respect!
- Rayanne: Thank you!
- [high fives Sharon]
- Sharon Cherski: Angela, the point is
- Rayanne: [interrupts] Who is he? Who is he to treat you like this?
- Sharon Cherski: Yeah! What, you're not cool enough for him to be seen with you?
- Rayanne: Exactly. And she's not slutty enough for him to just do it with her and rag to his buds.
- Sharon Cherski: I mean, please. You deserve so much better.
- [Brian knocks on the front door, and Angela answers]
- Brian Krakow: I don't believe you.
- Angela Chase: I know.
- Brian Krakow: You're in some kind of dream world or something that revolves around you. You have, like, no concept of anybody else's life.
- Angela Chase: I KNOW!
- Brian Krakow: You couldn't even BEGIN to imagine the pressure I'm under. You think YOU'RE under pressure? YOU? That is so, like, LAUGHABLE!
- Angela Chase: Brian, you're completely right, okay? But could you just PLEASE explain geometry to me anyway?
- Brian Krakow: Are you completely INSANE?
- Angela Chase: Yes, I probably am.
- Brian Krakow: You think I CARE? You could not possibly CONCEIVE of how much studying I have to do tonight! Have you ever even HEARD of calculus? Geometry is a PAID VACATION compared to calculus! Okay? I mean, do you... do you have any idea what it's like to be in accelerated? Do you... do you realize the pressure on a person when it's, like, ASSUMED that they will always get As? "Hey, Brian, pull another A?" "That Brian, he always gets an A." YOU have the OPTION of INSANITY! I do NOT! And that... makes me CRAZY!
- [Graham walks in the front door]
- Brian Krakow: Hi. I have to LEAVE. I'm... I'm leaving.
- Graham Chase: Bye?