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-Those surefooted in the woods tend to stumble on level ground.

~I like quotes~

“We aren’t just what’s directed by our genes, and we certainly aren’t just what we’re taught. It’s what we experience during those early years-a smile here, a jarring sound there-that creates the pathways and connections of the brain. We put our kids to fifteen years of quick-cut advertising, passive television watching, and sadistic video games, and we expect to see emerge a new generation of calm, compassionate, and engaged human beings?”
-Excerpt from the book Measure of a Man by Sidney Poitier

“Shall we go dumpster hopping?”
-My mum.

"One time, a whole frappicino fell into my pocket."
-A lass, referring to her frontal, forest green, large-volumes-of-liquid-holding, apron pocket, was relaying work memories at Starbucks

“‘An unnerving silence crawls up my spine.’ She says to her friend on the telephone. Silence while her friend babbles something. Suddenly she bugles, “Why did you type it?! Are you stealing my ideas?!’”
-Heather

“I love you, Sirelot.”
-My mum called my dad Sire and Sirelot, inspired by the play Camelot

“She’s like a little big kid.”
-An English gentleman tourist says to Jen, referring to me, as I was playing merrily on the coral and in the waves, looking for fishies and crabbies

“Children with drug or alcohol problems should be in treatment programs, not juvenile lockups.”
-Quoted from NY Times article, in the opinion section, “Some Progress on Kids and Jails” on August 19, 2008

“So, we’re sitting here, the tree just chillin’ in our living room.”
-A part of a telephone message Heather left me one stormy night, an instant classic

“ ‘The waves are shimmering with silvery threads of moonlight.’ My dad says as he sips his drink, then mumbles, ‘Why’d I get this? I watched them put a whole banana into it and blend it up. I hate bananas!’ I carve a couple hearts into the cool sand and reply, ‘Perhaps you should have asked for it without banana.’ He is silent for a moment, listening to the waves, then says idly, ‘I don’t think I’ll get it again.’ I finish the sand hearts and then stomp on the larger one, leaving a shoeprint. We depart.”
-Mini conversation with my dad recently

"Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things."
-Russell Baker

“When the Japanese mend broken objects, they aggrandize the damage by filling the cracks with gold. They believe that when something's suffered damage and has a history it becomes more beautiful.”
-Barbara Bloom