Angelica Panganiban is known for her cutting quotes about love and heartbreak as the so-called “Hugot Queen.” In her new iWantTFC original series “The Goodbye Girl,” she links up with Loisa Andalio, Barbie Imperial, Maris Racal, and Elisse Joson to teach viewers valuable lessons in self-love and moving on and give us even more relatable quotes to latch onto.
Why do the people we love reject, leave, or don’t love us back? In the series, the all-girl lead stars hold a mirror up to us to show us how we can “transcend our brokenness” and be “The New Girl.”
Here are some “hugot” lines from the most relatable scenes in the series:
- When Yanna (Angelica) gets drunk and accidentally hops on a livestream to broadcast her heartache:
Ang kapal ng mukha mo! Ako ang legal wife, pero spare tire mo lang pala ako! Everything was a lie! Siguro kung sexual affair lang ang meron kayo mas okay pa e. Pero ang nangyari, emotional affair! Punyeta! May pag-ibig!
- Yanna on her realization that she cannot force her ex-husband to love her back and that acceptance is the first step to healing:
Masakit pa rin. Pero kilala ko si Y. He is a good person. And what he did, he did out of love – pinili niya ang taong mahal niya. And I have to respect that decision.
And for the sake of the people I love, I am also doing the same. I am deciding to let go. It’s the only way that I will heal, that I can love myself again.
- Mara (Loisa) is the type of girlfriend who mirrors the personality of her partner, which was not always apparent to her. When she comes to terms with this, she realizes that she doesn’t really know herself:
Apparently, ‘La, hindi ako lumaki na nagsasabi kung ano talaga ang nasa loob ko. Kasi natatakot ako na kapag na-realize ng mga tao sa paligid ko kung sino talaga ako, hindi na nila ako mamahalin – na kapag nalaman nila na hindi talaga ako matalino, o cool, o creative, o strong – aayawan na nila ako. At maiiwan na naman akong mag-isa. Kaya lagi akong nakikibagay sa taong mahal ko. Hanggang hindi ko na makilala ang sarili ko. Ang ending, ganun pa rin, naiiwan pa rin akong mag-isa.
- A stranger, however, offers Mara these words of wisdom:
Alam mo, ipinanganak tayong mag-isa, at mamamatay tayong mag-isa. Sa buong buhay natin, wala tayong totoong kapiling kundi mga sarili natin. Kaya walang ibang totoong magmamahal sa ‘tin kundi tayo rin. At huwag mong ipagkait sa sarili mo ‘yun – ‘yung pagkakataon na mahalin mo ang sarili mo nang buong buo.
- Yanna on the morality of extramarital affairs:
Minsan, hinihintay natin ‘yung tamang oras para magmahal. Pero minsan din naman ‘yung mismong pagmamahal ang mali.
- When Yanna perfectly captures what being a “bitter hopia” means:
Maraming girls ang nagse-settle sa tiny crumbs of attention na itinatapon sa kanila. ‘Yung mga babaeng nabibiktima ng false hopes at pantasya na ibinibigay sa kanila ng taong gusto nila.
May mga taong tinatawag na “hopya” – sila yung kahit malabong seryosohin ng taong gusto, umaasa pa rin. Meron din namang “bitter.” Laging imbyerna kapag naaalala ang dahilan kung bakit ‘di sila pwede ng taong gusto… Pero ang pinakamatindi ay ‘yung hopya na, bitter pa.
- Ria (Maris) on realizing her worth after being hopelessly in love with a friend who’s only good to her when he needs her.
Bakit? Bakit ngayon? Oo dati mahal kita. Dati. Pero iba na ngayon. May respeto na ‘ko sa sarili ko. Ayoko nang maging panakip-butas mo.
- Yanna on dumping one’s trauma on other people:
I read somewhere na if you don’t heal what hurt you, you’ll bleed on people who didn’t cut you. Ang lungkot ‘di ba? But it’s the truth. Kung sino ‘yung walang kasalanan sa ‘tin, madalas, ‘yun ang sinasaktan natin.
- Yanna on being a fool for love:
I read somewhere that for many people stupidity is a choice. But I’d say na sa pag-ibig, usually, the same can be said about blindness. When something doesn’t fit the narrative we have created, no matter how smart some girls are, they still choose to ignore all the evidence and the fact, making them “Legally Blind.”
- Julia’s (Elisse) grandma on following one’s intuition:
Alam mo apo, maganda iyang nakaplano ang lahat ng bagay sa buhay mo. Pero minsan may mga bagay na hindi mo dapat pinipilit sa gusto mong oras – at isa na riyan ay ang pagpapakasal. Julia, ako, ilang beses nang niligtas ng instincts ko sa mga pagkakataon na nabulag ako dahil ang nakikita ko lang ay ‘yung gusto kong makita.
- Yanna on following one’s heart:
Marami sa mga humihingi sa akin ng advice ay may mga problemang may kinalaman sa hiya – nahihiyang magtapat sa minamahal nila, nahihiyang mahusgahan ng ibang tao, at nahihiyang mapahiya sa sarili nila. Kaya magtitiis nang magtitiis hanggang sumabog na lang ang damdamin. At dahil dito, these people will spend most of their lives short-changing themselves dahil naduwag sila – oblivious that we are all here on borrowed time. So while we are here, live freely and live courageously. Follow your heart, but listen to your mind.
- Yanna on finding the love you deserve:
Many times, it feels like the fit is always wrong – mahal natin ‘yung mga taong walang pakialam sa ‘tin, at hindi nating mapilit ang sarili natin na mahalin ‘yung mga taong baliw na baliw sa atin. But it doesn’t mean we should stop looking, right? There are 7.8 billion people on the planet right now, siguro naman kahit isa dun, ka-match mo.
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