On its surface, Ginny and Georgia is a family drama and coming of age show. But when you look a little deeper, the story is also a beautiful portrayal of trauma, generational cycles, and mental health issues, especially amongst younger people. It’s about what you would do to protect yourself; it’s about what you would do to protect the people you love. And it’s about trying to love the people in your life in the best way you can when you struggle to love yourself. It’s about going through the worst but choosing to do better.

While the show has plenty of cringey moments or instances of melodrama, it also has some beautiful writing that grasps the reality of what people are going through—like me, like you. In fact, it’s incredibly likely you’ll resonate with some of the dialogue, even if you haven’t seen the show.

Here are the 20 best Ginny and Georgia quotes:

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“When you don’t have a voice, you have to scream somehow.” — Ginny (Antonia Gentry)

2.

“My mom knows she’s beautiful, and she guards her beauty like someone’s trying to break in and steal it.” — Ginny (Antonia Gentry)

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“Because the hand doesn’t stop on the thigh, and I’ve wished my whole life someone would have stopped that hand.”  — Georgia (Brianne Howey)

4.

“No one person should be responsible for your happiness. That’s not fair.” — Marcus (Felix Mallard)

5.

“What happens when everything falls apart?  When the carefully constructed house of cards finally crumbles?”  — Ginny (Antonia Gentry)

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“You have to live in the future ‘cause the past will eat you.” — Georgia (Brianne Howey)

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“Some feelings are like old familiar friends. Depression is like that for me. When I’m not in it, I don’t remember it.” — Marcus (Felix Mallard)

8.

“You give me lemons, you’ll have lemonade, lemon pie, and lemon meringue.” — Georgia (Brianne Howey)

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“We live in a man’s world. And it is exhausting to exist in a world not designed for you, a world that doesn’t take you seriously, where you matter less.” — Georgia (Brianne Howey)

10.

“For a woman, life is a battle. And beauty is a g*ddamn machine gun.”  — Georgia (Brianne Howey)

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“You’ve gotta keep your feet on the ground and your head out of your ass.” — Ginny (Antonia Gentry)

12.

“We think we know what’s going on with other people, but we don’t. You never really know what’s going on inside someone else’s head.” — Marcus (Felix Mallard)

13.

“You have this bad habit of taking away my money.” — Joe Singh (Raymond Ablack)

14.

“Places are easy to leave. It’s people that are hard.” — Georgia (Brianne Howey)

15.

“It’s about the fact that aging is a horrible, inevitable death sentence where your body betrays you slowly till you die.”  — Georgia (Brianne Howey)

16.

“The world sucks, but you are my favorite person. All of you. I love you, Virginia Miller. Today, tomorrow, forever. — Marcus (Felix Mallard)

17.

“I would have been way stronger if I didn’t have to spend so much energy dealing with that sh*t.” — Georgia (Brianne Howey)

18.

“I’m just so sorry, Peach. For everything. Give it to me, okay? You give all that pain to me. I can handle it.” — Georgia (Brianne Howey)

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“When the episode starts, it can be slow at first. An intrusive thought: ‘I don’t want to be here,’ but then it’s gone. You bat it away like a fly or a bad smell. When it hits you fully though, when you’re really in it, it’s everything. It’s who you are, you’re nothing else. On the outside, you look the same; smiling and pretending is so much work, but inside, it’s a different story. You start to hate yourself. You’re so alone, so unbelievably alone. And you can be with someone you love, but you’re not really with them.” — Marcus (Felix Mallard)

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“People change one of two ways: Over time with life chipping away at you or all at once because something big forces the change upon you. Loss can do that, pain, trauma, love…” — Georgia (Brianne Howey)