"It would be all 3-Dimensional and spinning around..."-Sarah, with hand gesture
"Like a screensaver!"-Me, in a conversation about cartoon bubble "gas"
"And then when anyone says cool shit you should write it down."-Karin, when I started a story with, "well, i'm gonna buy a notebook."
"Slap bracelets!?" -Anne Ryan, when I continued the story with "Now, you may remember these from yr middle-to-high school years..." about the Question Book
"I don't know how he didn't get his face kicked in that night but Lucky Strikes for the new year."-Me
"And like respond to stupid comments in insightful ways."-Karin, about teaching
"I was totally gonna say something witty but I forgot."-Lydz
"They project, 'I want to look slutty and be wearing sweatpants.'"- Karin, about undergrads and projecting images with clothing...
"It was like a Chain of Cheating."-Me, about a chain of cheating
"That's totally like that 'Pass It Forward' movie."-Grant, after i told him my cigarette case story
"One of these days I WILL be a lesbian & I WILL be involved." -Andrew,when Vesna told him he couldn't sit on my lap
"I can't read. I can only look at the pictures in Playboy."-Ty
"You make tendons...(biting nails, biting nails)...Can you fix mine?"-Ty, to Sarah
"You could have a whole bunch of them safety-pinned together. It would be so punk rock."-Me, about using Sarah's tiny science muscles to fix Ty's leg
"Emma knows about Jesse, she wrote about it in her quotebook."-Ty
"oooo, look at you scribblin' in yr book."-Anne Ryan
"All I know is i'm just gonna drink more & i'm not gonna get laid."-Sarah, about not going to Bianca's
"If you enjoy cursing, that's the way to go."-Matty, to Lydz about telemarketers
"She can put on a good cd."-Matty, after i said, "she said i was smart about music."
"i'm like, 'We live in the same town! We even have the same zip code!"-Me
"I'm laughing at YOU in my life."-Matty, rephrasing something i'd said
"and yr gonna live so close to the mall, you're gonna love it!"-Me, teasing matt
"You bitch."-Matty, "But I'm totally gonna hang out there all the time."
"That's like chaos - massive eruptions in galaxies."-Matty
"You know about that -- my impending death."-Matty
"That's like the new Hollywood colonialism."-Me
"And to me, you've always had pens...and your brown computer."-Matt
"oh, i wonder what emma crandall's thinking about - she thinks for a living."-Matt
"Is that a parrot?...No, that's a Dad."-Krystina
"Oh my GODD!! There's so much paper!!"-Lydia, at 2:o8 pm, yelling from her room (this was SO FUN/NY i about fell down in my mid-afternoon pajamas)
More QUOTES, Less TALK ~ Love, Emma