At Pacific Palisades High, a poor Latino falls hard for a troubled girl from the affluent neighborhood.

Carlos: You're crazy...
Nicole: ...and you're beautiful.
Nicole: There are millions of people in this world, but in the end it all comes down to one. I still panic sometimes, forget to breathe, but I know that there's something beautiful in my imperfections; the beauty that he held up for me to see. The strength that I will never be able to say.
Nicole: You can be anywhere where when your life begins. You meet the right person and anything is possible.
Nicole: [crying] Why do you hate me so much? How could you tell the only person in the world that I love, that I care about so much, how could you tell him to stay away from me? Do you think that the only thing I'll ever do to someone is screw them up? That I'm not worth loving?
Carlos: Come to get me into trouble again?
Nicole: Nah. We're off duty. We're not troublemakers, we're innocent. Don't we look innocent together?
Nicole: I want to be good for you.
Nicole: I'm seventeen, I'm supposed to get out of control.
Nicole: We forgot to wear our blue.
Maddy: Shit. I forgot to wear anything.
Carlos: I want to take you away from everything that makes you crazy.
Courtney Oakley: What kind of daughter are you?
Nicole: Not yours.
Courtney Oakley: Thank god for that.
Maddy: Ohmygod you are so obvious!
Nicole: You can be anywhere when your life begins. When the future opens up in front of you. And you may not even realize it at first, but it's already happening.