"A few years ago I was at a party and this guy threw me over his shoulder, ran across the street, put me in his car, and stuck his tongue in my mouth"
About this Quote
The specific intent reads as confessional shock value, the kind celebrities trade in because it’s intimate without being revealing: you get the headline image, not the aftermath. It’s also a calibration test for the listener. Are we laughing at the audacity? Are we wincing at the lack of consent? Bilson doesn’t narrate fear or anger; she narrates action. That omission is the subtext, because it leaves the audience to supply the emotion, and audiences tend to default to whatever script they’ve been trained on.
Context matters: early-2000s party culture and tabloid storytelling rewarded “wild” behavior as flirtation, especially when framed around a famous woman’s desirability. The guy’s aggression gets translated into a kind of masculine charisma; her body becomes the vehicle for the anecdote. The line’s power is that it exposes how easily coercion can be packaged as a “crazy story,” and how celebrity narration can make a boundary violation sound like a quirky footnote instead of an ethical problem. It works because it’s vivid, cinematic, and morally unresolved - and that unresolved quality is exactly what keeps it circulating.
Quote Details
| Topic | Romantic |
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| Source | Help us find the source |
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APA Style (7th ed.)
Bilson, Rachel. (2026, January 15). A few years ago I was at a party and this guy threw me over his shoulder, ran across the street, put me in his car, and stuck his tongue in my mouth. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/a-few-years-ago-i-was-at-a-party-and-this-guy-128883/
Chicago Style
Bilson, Rachel. "A few years ago I was at a party and this guy threw me over his shoulder, ran across the street, put me in his car, and stuck his tongue in my mouth." FixQuotes. January 15, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/a-few-years-ago-i-was-at-a-party-and-this-guy-128883/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"A few years ago I was at a party and this guy threw me over his shoulder, ran across the street, put me in his car, and stuck his tongue in my mouth." FixQuotes, 15 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/a-few-years-ago-i-was-at-a-party-and-this-guy-128883/. Accessed 22 Feb. 2026.





