My So-Called Life (TV Series)

Guns and Gossip (1994)

Bess Armstrong: Patty Chase

Quotes 

• Patty : I could have died. I did die! I mean, this woman knows and I don't know. She's not even a woman. She's like this 40-year old girl. She's gorgeous and she's telling me about my daughter's sex life, which apparently she now has, and I don't even know about it.

  Graham : Look, the girl talked to her mother. We don't know if it's true.

  Patty : Things are always true. Of course it's true.

  Graham : [gives Patty food]  Here, taste this.

  Patty : I can't taste anything. Guns are going off at school, Angela's sleeping with someone.

  Graham : You don't know that!

  Patty : And even if she isn't, which I pray is true, she obviously has some kind of secret life which is completely apart from us. So what do we do? Do we confront her?

  Graham : Oh God, no. I don't want to know if it's true.

  Patty : What sort of attitude are we supposed to have? Are we supposed to have an attitude? I already have an attitude. It may be my mother's attitude. I don't want to get hysterical about this, but why not? Why shouldn't I be hysterical? She's fifteen! I should be hysterical.

• Patty : Honey, who is Jordan?

  Patty : No one.

  [pause] 

  Patty : You mean Jordan Catalano?

  Patty : Is that his last name?

  Angela : I don't know. You brought it up.

  Patty : I met Rayanne's mom tonight and she was all excited about your new boyfriend, Jordan.

  Angela : Boyfriend? That's a laugh.

  Patty : So, he's not your boyfriend?

  Angela : Mom, I barely know this person. I don't know if I want to know this person.

  Patty : Well then, you haven't?

  Angela : What did you hear? What did she tell you?

  Patty : Nothing. She didn't tell me anything.

  Angela : Did she say I was sleeping with Jordan Catalano?

  Patty : No! I mean, of course not. No one said that. It's just... well, I just wondered.

  Angela : She did! Didn't she? I can't believe this. I can't believe this! I hate everyone.