The Edge of Seventeen Monologues

High-school life gets even more unbearable for Nadine when her best friend, Krista, starts dating her older brother.

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.

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.

I had the worst thought: I've got to spend the rest of my life with myself.

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 for a second, they can't communicate without emojis, and they actually think that the world wants to know that they are "eating a taco, exclamation point, smiley face, smiley face", like we give a fuck. I… am an old soul. I like old music, and old movies, and even old people. I have nothing in common with the people out there, and they have nothing in common with me.

It's a big house. You're bored. You know what you need? You need someone to rob you so you can reenact home alone.

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 that it just...

Done; kills me. Lights out. 'Cause if it just maims me, and I'm like...

Well then how's that good for anyone? Then I gotta find a nurse to smother me. How am I gonna get across smothering if I'm…

We don't need to get caught up in the minutia; I just thought that an adult, s- you should know.

Nick, I'm just gonna say it, I like you. I've liked you for months. I think about you every second. I don't know, maybe I even love you. You're so complicated, but simple, and I just feel this connection between us, I feel like I already know you, and 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.