Jerri Blank quotes from Strangers with Candy

Jerri

Hello. I'm Jerri Blank, and I'm a forty-six year-old high school freshman. For thirty-two years I was a teenage runaway. I was a boozer, a user and a loser. My friends were dealers, cons and eighteen-karat pimps. But now, I'm out of jail, picking up my life exactly where I left off. I'm back in high school, living at home and discovering all sorts of things about my body. I'm finding out that though the faces have changed, the hassles are just the same.

Jerri

If I don’t graduate by the time I'm 50, I'll be the laughingstock of Flatpoint High!

Jerri

Who wants to go to a cockfight?! I'll drive!

Jerri

Stoney and I would go over to Buckle's and Puff would turn us on to a hot load of mescaline crumbled into a tumbler of ether with a float of Percocet jimmies. I’d wake up with blood on my ass, and then we'd get high. Those were some good times!

Jerri

[repeated line] I got something to say!

Jerri

But I've had plenty of babies! Just none I've carried to full term.

Jerri

Is that how they say 'hi' in Whoreville?

Jerri

Pee on me.

Jerri

It was a lot easier being a single mother when I was neither single, nor the mother.

Jerri

I cried when I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet. And then I laughed... really hard.

Jerri

I'm dealing with this the same way I dealt with my own alcoholism and drug addiction: With lies and delusion.

Jerri

I've changed. People change. Changes... I'm not the same Jerri Blank who informed on those blind orphans. I'm not the same Jerri Blank who revealed the hiding place of those Guatemalans... such as yourself. And I'm not the same Jerri Blank who took a crap in the Fleishmanns' holly bushes... last night.

Jerri

Florida: Beautiful weather. Harsh penal system...

Jerri

I did things I wouldn't force on a mule, and that includes things I forced on a mule.

Jerri

Befriending new people can lead to having sex with your children, accidentally.