Vada Sultenfuss Quotes in My Girl (1991)

Vada Sultenfuss: [to Thomas J., after getting her first period] Get outta here! And don't come back for five to seven days!

Thomas J. Sennett: Vada?

Vada Sultenfuss: Yeah?

Thomas J. Sennett: Would you think of me?

Vada Sultenfuss: For what?

Thomas J. Sennett: Well, if you don't get to marry Mr. Bixler.

Vada Sultenfuss: I guess.

[first lines]

Vada Sultenfuss: I was born jaundiced. Once I sat on a toilet seat at a truck stop and caught hemorrhoids. And I've learned to live with this chicken bone that's been lodged in my throat for the past three years. So I knew Dad would be devastated when he learned of my latest affliction.

[to Harry]

Vada Sultenfuss: Dad, I don't want to upset you, but my left breast is developing at a significantly faster rate than my right. It can only mean one thing: cancer. I'm dying.

Harry: [making a sandwich] Okay, sweetie, hand me the mayonnaise out of the fridge.

Thomas J. Sennett: What do you think it's like?

Vada Sultenfuss: What?

Thomas J. Sennett: Heaven.

Vada Sultenfuss: I think... everybody gets their own white horse and all they do is ride them and eat marshmallows all day. And everybody's best friends with everybody else. When you play sports, there's no teams, so nobody gets picked last.

Thomas J. Sennett: But what if you're afraid to ride horses?

Vada Sultenfuss: Doesn't matter 'cause they're not regular horses. They've got wings. And it's no big deal if you fall 'cause you'll just land in a cloud.

Vada Sultenfuss: My fears and secrets: I'm afraid I killed my mother.

Justin: Feel my aura.

Vada Sultenfuss: I don't think I'm allowed to.

Shelly DeVoto: This is Phil, Harry, Gramoo, and Vada Sultenfuss.

Danny: Vada Sultenfuss? Tough break.

Vada Sultenfuss: I like my name.

Vada Sultenfuss: Why is it boys talk so much, when they have nothing to say? And girls have plenty to say, but no one will listen?

Vada Sultenfuss: Life's full of barbaric customs. But I hope they all end with a kiss like that.

Rose Zsigmond: And you. I don't suppose your father gave you permission to pierce your ears?

Vada Sultenfuss: Not exactly.

Rose Zsigmond: Well, just don't shave your legs. Your father will never let you visit us again if I send you back hairless and full of holes.

[first lines]

Vada Sultenfuss: [narration to audience] I remember before I was born, wounded up like a fur ball in the highly overrated fetal position, luckily I'm not claustrophobic, but on rainy days I still felt a tightness in my left shoulder. So now that my stepmother's pregnant, I understand what the baby's going through, and I'm not jealous at all, really, not at all.