"You're so much sunshine to the square inch!" --Walt Whitman

"If you're lucky enough to be at the lake, you're lucky enough." 

Vacation time, 2011. 

"I hold another creed; which no one ever taught me, and which I seldom mention; but in which I delight, and to which I cling: for it extends hope to all: it makes Eternity a rest--a mighty home, not a terror and an abyss. Besides, with this creed, I can so clearly distinguish between the criminal and his crime; I can so sincerely forgive the first while I abhor the last: with this creed revenge never worries my heart, degradation never too deeply disgusts me, injustice never crushes me too low: I live in calm, looking to the end." --Helen Burns in Jane Eyre

I decided that while on vacation this year, I would attempt a second reading of Jane Eyre. I tried once before, but failed; partially due to the hard-to-decipher copy I was using and the timing of when I tried to read it (on the bus home from 3 exhausting weeks at camp). I got a new copy, and am delighted at the ease at which it is going. The character that says this particular quote is but thirteen, but her spirit is sweet and true, despite her very hard reality. What an inspiration. 

"God loved you before you were born.

His arms were around you before you knew your mother's embrace.

You are in His thoughts a thousand times over. 

He loves you from the heights and from the depths of His being. 

His love covers you today with grace.

You live in the atmosphere of His love 

and inhale it with every breath of your spirit."

--Roy Lessin

"I don't understand your Korean silences!" --Mom

My mom and I love this Korean soap opera called 'Palace'. The characters in this show like to not answer questions and let their eloquent silences answer for them. Seeing as we watch it in Korean and read the subtitles, this quote has and especially funny double-meaning. 

"Those girls who look pretty while crying in the movies--there's a reason they get paid the big bucks. It's because that's called acting, since it's impossible to actually do." --Me

From best of craigslist:

'So my sister gave me this cello a couple years ago. It's a nice cello. Actually, it's a great cello. It's probably the best cello, but I don't really know much about cellos. Also the neck snapped off. Of the cello. So it's really more like 3/4's of a cello, but the other 1/4's still there, it's just not attached. It's kind of like you're getting two cellos, only one of them doesn't have a body and the other doesn't have a neck. But if you stand them up next to each other it's like old times. You could probably fix it with like some music glue or something like that.

She also gave me a cello bag that I can give to you too, now that I won't have a cello. It's a really nice cello bag. You can fit everything in it. Actually, there might even be a bow in the bag, I'm not sure. I don't want you to think that there's 100% a bow in the bag. It's way over there, I can't check right now. But if it's in there it's yours.

If you're like me and you don't know how to play the cello then you could use it as a coin bank. It's hollow and there are two S's on the front that you could drop the coins through. Then when it's filled up you could drop it off of your roof or carry it around like a change purse. Ooh, in the cello bag. It'd be like a cello purse. I'd do it but I'm moving across the country and it won't fit in my car. What else could you do with it. You could saw the front off and use it as a sled. Or give the neck to a baby as like a wizard stick for Christmas. Totally give this cello to someone for Christmas. Or Hanukkah.

Please come get it. I'm in Echo Park. I'd actually go somewhere to meet you if wherever we're going is a cool place. Like the desert or something.

I'm 90% certain the bow's in there.'

My favorite entry from craigslist. Makes me wonder if this person is for real or not.

"I am so not riding that [Cedar Point ride]. I would pee my pants. Literally. People below me would get wet." --Dad

"'Kiosk' is just a fancy term for 'information booth'." --random guy in Kohl's

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." 
--Eleanor Roosevelt

Connor: "Mom, please?"

Kalie: "She said no, Connor--get over it!"

Paul: "Nice to see those counseling classes are paying off."

[arguing about putting dishes away]

Kendall: "You basically abused me when we were little."

Kalie: "Well...you didn't duck when I told you to."

"This is my family. It's little and broken, but still good." 

--Stitch, Lilo and Stitch

It's Friday morning movie time! I'm watching Lilo and Stitch for the first time since it came out, and I found this line (both times I've watched it) the most touching. 

[talking about some of the common wedding ceremony elements] 

"I'm not going to do that--I don't think Velveeta is that cheesy." --Marty

"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it."  --Thomas Paine

"My God!  How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!"  --Thomas Jefferson

God bless America--land of the free, because of the brave.

Me: "You know, I am loud enough..."

Dad: "A-men, sister."

Mom: "You'd better not throw many stones...I'm pretty sure she gets it from you."

We don't have power at our church this morning because of storms last night. My parents and I were talking about how the song service won't be a problem because I'm helping to lead, and I have a powerful singing voice. Priceless.

"The last time I talked to her, she said she was hurt. And 'hurt' is girl-speak for 'Call now, bonehead.'" --Will, Beastly