"Everybody has a secret world inside of them. All of the people of the world, I mean everybody. No matter how dull and boring they are on the outside, inside them they’ve all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds. Not just one world. Hundreds of them. Thousands maybe." - Neil Gaiman, Sandman"I was raised right - I talk ( Read more... )

"In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others." - André Maurois

Bank teller: Are you two married?
Asian girl and white man (angrily): Yes. Just.
Bank teller: You're so loving.
White man: Our marriage doesn't start until noon each day.
Asian girl: After two cups of coffee.
- overheardinnyc.com

Mother in bathroom stall ( Read more... )

"When I was working in a 3 year old class the kids when they got mad at someone would tell them that they weren't invited to their birthday party. One day one little boy lifted up his shirt and told his best friend he wasn't invited to his nipples." - goddessathena

Penny: He was a really good-looking guy and I thought he was totally cheesy at first, but he ( Read more... )

"A lot of the people who wrote to me after the book's publication were also living as a gay couple; others wrote out of desperation because they had not yet outed themselves and [about] how they should deal with the fact they were gay," she says. "And I always answer to them that it's your life and you have to stand up for who you are. Through that ( Read more... )

"Arguing with logic only makes you seem irrational."

Hipster girl: Let's just go to the arcade with them.
JAP: I'd rather make out with Hitler.
- overheardinnyc.com"Tragedy blows through your life like a tornado, uprooting everything. Creating chaos. You wait for the dust to settle and then you choose. You can live in the wreckage and pretend it's ( Read more... )

Peter: Well, I'm gettin' something really special too. And by special I don't mean special like that Kleinaman boy down the street. More special like... like Special K, the cereal. Hey, what do they do with the regular K? And for that matter, what ever happend to K. Ballard? You know, if you said mallard and you had a cold, it would sound like ( Read more... )

Me: Hey Alec, can I have a hug?
Alec (my 4 year old brother): Master Jedi Alec can only hug his wife. And Mommy is his wife.

"I'm Canadian. Everyone loves us. We're like the world's gay friend." - Jason Jones, The Daily Show

"Of course I'm home. I'm always home. I'm uncool." - Almost Famous"I like parties, but I don't like piñatas because the ( Read more... )

Sam: Well, Dad never treated you like that, you were perfect. He was all over my case. You don't remember?
Dean: Well, maybe he had to raise his voice, but sometimes you were out of line.
Sam: Right! Right, like when I said I'd rather play soccer than learn bow hunting.
Dean: Bow hunting's an important skill!
- Supernatural

Laura comes home from school ( Read more... )

Me: I love how you got her 8 Mile, an R-rated movie...
Mom: What, is there sex in it or something?
Dad: No, just yelling, swearing, guns...
Mom: Oh, well it's just like grandma's then.

"I love you like this because I don't know any other way." - Neruda, Soneta XVII

"That’s a stalagtite Jo-Jessica! You betta recognize yo sedimentary rock formations!" - ( Read more... )

"When you do something small but you put your whole heart into it, it can be very powerful. It can change your whole world." - Diego Luna

"There is a moment in our lives when we must decide which world we belong to. The world of our dreams or the other one. We can't all drift back and forth between them without risking losing our place in both." - ( Read more... )