Reality Bites * Quotes

"You can't navigate me. I may do mean things, and I may hurt you, and I may run away without your permission, and you may hate me forever, and I know that scares the living shit outta you 'cause you know I'm the only real thing you got."

Lelaina: "I was really going to be somebody by the time I was 23."
Troy: "Honey, all you have to be by the time you're 23 is yourself."

"There's no point to any of this. It's all just a... a random lottery of meaningless tragedy and a series of near escapes. So I take pleasure in the details. You know... a Quarter-Pounder with cheese, those are good, the sky about ten minutes before it starts to rain, the moment where your laughter become a cackle... and I, I sit back and I smoke my Camel Straights and I ride my own melt."

Lelaina: "Can you define 'irony'?"
Troy Dyer: "It's when the actual meaning is the complete opposite from the literal meaning."

"At the beep, please leave your name, number, and a brief justification for the ontological necessity of modern man's existential dilemma, and we'll get back to you."

"Hello, you've reached the winter of our discontent."

Michael Grates: "Have I stepped over some line in the sands of coolness with you? Because excuse me if somebody doesn't know the secret handshake with you."
Troy Dyer: "There's no secret handshake. There's an IQ prerequisite, but there's no secret handshake."