Season 1

“Hannah: You don't have a plan. Marnie: I think maybe that's a good thing for me.”

— Lena Dunham, Marnie Michaels, Allison Williams, imdb.com

“Why is everyone struggling in New York?”

— Judd Apatow, Lena Dunham, Hannah Horvath, Lena Dunham, imdb.com

“I've never been as miserable in my life.”

— Dan Sterling, Lena Dunham, Marnie Michaels, Allison Williams, imdb.com

“I'm not asking anything. I'm really not asking you for anything. I've never asked you for anything. I don't even want anything, okay?”

— Lena Dunham, Hannah Horvath, Lena Dunham, imdb.com

“Holding on to toxic relationships is what keeps us from growing.”

— Lena Dunham, Adam Sackler, Adam Driver, imdb.com

“That isn't fun for me, being the uptight girl. I hate it.”

— Dan Sterling, Lena Dunham, Marnie Michaels, Allison Williams, imdb.com

“You are from New York, therefore you are just naturally interesting. Okay? It is not up to you to fill all of the pauses. You are not in danger of mortifying yourself. The worst stuff that you say, sounds better than the best stuff that some other people say.”

— Judd Apatow, Lena Dunham, Hannah Horvath, Lena Dunham, imdb.com

“Your boyfriend should kill himself. You deserve it.”

— Bruce Eric Kaplan, Lena Dunham, Jessa Johansson, Jemima Kirke, imdb.com

“I don't like it when you assfucked my best friend in the heart.”

— Lena Dunham, Ray Ploshansky, Alex Karpovsky, imdb.com

“You're going to be fine. crack can be really fun, under the right circumstances, and it only lasts a little while and I'll take care of you. I will be your crack spirit guide.”

— Lena Dunham, Jessa Johansson, Jemima Kirke, imdb.com

“I'm like the least virginy virgin ever.”

— Lena Dunham, Shoshanna Shapiro, Zosia Mamet, imdb.com

“You know what I'm going to do from now on, ask people if they're gay before I have sex with them.”

— Lena Dunham, Hannah Horvath, Lena Dunham, imdb.com

“I'm just worried that if we see each other we're going to end up having sex.”

— Lena Dunham, Hannah Horvath, Lena Dunham, imdb.com

“Marnie: I was just thinking, I've been sexually irresponsible enough in my life thus far that I should have gotten pregnant by now and I never have. Like, I get my period at the same time, on the same day, of every monthly cycle, my entire life, like it's never strayed from that. Hannah: Then you're…”

— Hannah Horvath, Lena Dunham, imdb.com

“Hannah: I have a very bad fear of AIDS. Gynecologist: Have you known someone with AIDS? Hannah: It's more of a Forrest Gump based fear. That's what Robin Wright Penn's character died of.”

— Hannah Horvath, Lena Dunham, imdb.com

“Hannah: Didn't you say that texting was the lowest form of communication on the pillar of chat? Marine: The totem of chat. No, the lowest, that would be Facebook, following by gchat, then texting, then email, then phone. Face to face is of course ideal, but it's not of this time.”

— Hannah Horvath, Lena Dunham, imdb.com

“I don't want to freak you out, but I think that I may be the voice of my generation. Or at least, a voice of a generation.”

— Lena Dunham, Hannah Horvath, Lena Dunham, imdb.com

“You never ask me anything besides, ‘Does this feel okay,’ or ‘Do you like my skirt,’ ‘How much is your rent?’ You don’t want to know me. You want to come over in the night and have me fuck the dog shit out of you and then leave and write about it in your diary.”

— Lena Dunham, Adam Sackler, Adam Driver, imdb.com

“No one could ever hate me as much as I hate myself, okay? So any mean thing someone’s gonna think of to say about me, I’ve already said to me, about me, probably in the last half-hour!”

— Bruce Eric Kaplan, Lena Dunham, Hannah Horvath, Lena Dunham, imdb.com

“Is this the game? You chase me like I’m the fucking Beatles for six months and then when I finally get comfortable with things you wanna shrug?”

— Lena Dunham, Adam Sackler, Adam Driver, imdb.com