Season 2

“Hannah: You're here. Adam: Well, I was always here.”

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

“You know who ends up living their dreams? Sad messes.”

— Steve Rubinshteyn, Deborah Schoeneman, Lena Dunham, Marnie Michaels, Allison Williams, imdb.com

“I hate when people are early. It's so vile.”

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

“It's like my worst nightmare as a kid, being the last one to be picked up from like school or some social event. Then all these adults know about your sad home life and your irresponsible parents.”

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

“I don't want this to be awkward, but like you look amazing. Like seriously, you could have sex with like any girl at this party including me. Oh my God.”

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

“There are certain people who are meant to remain in your past. I made a mistake trying to repurpose you.”

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

“I'm planning on writing an article that exposes all my vulnerabilities to the entire internet.”

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

“You are so mean when you're depressed.”

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

“I know I always said he was murdery in a sexy way, but maybe he's murdery in a murder way.”

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

“I had a bad breakup. It's okay I think we're gonna be able stay friends you know, but I'm not gonna do what Hannah does and order six pizzas to make myself feel better.”

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

“Sometimes being really good all the time feels really bad. But I’m on a journey. It’s my journey and I’m okay.”

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

“Usually when people say they wanna be a writer they really don’t wanna do anything except, ya know, eat and masturbate.”

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

“I'm a difficult person. Everyone's a difficult person. She was accepting of my brand of different. She was okay with it.”

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

“What makes me worth dating? What makes me worth fucking anything?”

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

“Re: the threesome, I have enough trouble focusing where to place my attention on one person’s body.”

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

“I’m an individual and I feel how I feel when I feel it.”

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

“Why didn't you stand up for me? Why weren't you there? Why can't you do one single thing you say you're going to do? You act like you want me to come see you, but you don't know how to have me here. You don't know how to deal with it. You don't know to even have a conversation with me.”

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

“It's hard to tell someone so young that things don't always end up the way you thought they'd be.”

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

“When we are together, he's SO there, and he's SO present, and then... he disappears for two weeks, and doesn't answer any of my text messages, and I feel as though I invented him.”

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

“I think I just feel how everyone feels—which is I have three or four really great folk albums in me.”

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