Drenched in grunge spirit and Gen X nihilism, MTV’s Daria was a touchstone of '90s pop culture. With inborn cynicism and unfettered sarcasm, high school student Daria Morgendorffer was the ultimate cool nerd, whose stoic disposition we all wished we could emulate. At the time, Daria’s subversiveness looked sounder than sister Quinn’s seemingly frivolous and borderline neurotic self-obsession. Fast forward twenty years since Daria made its original debut on MTV, and the world is more full of Quinns than we could ever have imagined possible. How did we allow this to happen? Daria was a ray of light, that made geekiness and introversion look like the only sane way forward. Let’s have a look at the sitcom’s most memorable and soulful quotes.