"I don't need easy. I just need possible."
-Bethany Hamilton, "Soul Surfer" (movie, 2011)

My sister, Dennie: "I think me and Betsie should to to Europe now, before we get married and are poor."
Me: "Why, because your debt ridden husband will take it all?"
Dennie: "No, just you're poor when you're married!"

That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward. -- Edgar Allen Poe.

~Riella

"No need to hide anything anymore.
Can't return to who I was before.

I can finally breathe.
Suddenly alive.
I can finally move.
The world feels revived..."
-"Breathe" by Anberlin

I have a lot of favorites I'll probably add later, but these two are recent favorites that really are amazing, both from one of my favorite books 'The Given Day':

"Your first family is your blood family and you always be true to that. That means something. But there's another family and that's the kind you go out and find. Maybe even by accident sometimes. And they're as much blood as your first family. Maybe more so, because they don't have to look out for you and they don't have to love you. They choose to."

"What molds us is what maims us."

"How far Treebeard can be regarded as a 'portrait of the artist' must remain doubtful; but when he hears that some people want to identify the Ring with the hydrogen bomb, and Mordor with Russia, I think he might call it a 'hasty word'." -- C.S. Lewis, on Tolkien's LOTR not being an allegory of real life events.

~Riella

Reality is a lovely place
but I wouldn’t want to live there.
Lyrics from "The Real Word" by Owl City

My rock candy passion is bittersweet
And armed to the teeth
Cuz she would rather fall in chocolate
Than fall in love
Especially with me
Lyrics "The Yacht Club" by Owl City

I wish that we could sail our sad days away, forever
In deep blue seas of paper-mache
Lyrics from "The Yacht Club" by Owl City

"It's so huge. And so unexplained. And why is this little planet covered in green stuff and creatures that walk on two sticks and talk about nothing but facebook sitting in the middle of it? " -- Rose, on earth and the universe.

~Riella

Oh my goodness, so many!

No time is wasted that is spent in a saddle - Winston Churchill

Only God could create a creature so powerfull and yet remain so gentle -annonymous. This speaking about horses, of course

Nobody move! I dropped my brain! - Jack Sparrow

This is the beggining of the rest of your life - Some song, which I forget!

I'm sure I'll thing of more!

I haven't seen POTC, Fay, but that Jack Sparrow quote is hilarious!!

~ She had not known the weight, until she had felt the freedom! --The Scarlet Letter

~ "If you worry that you'll lose, you probably will." --Halt, The Ranger's Apprentice

~ "I walked away from my home. For them! I gave myself up to the sheriff. For them!" --Robin Hood (BBC series)

~ "Everything I do is for him but he just thinks I'm an idiot." --Merlin (BBC series)

~ If you've been taken for granted, imagine how God feels. --a Baptist church sign

Baseball advice from my 'cousin' --
~ "It's never been about how far or how hard you can hit, it's about hitting it where they're not."

[6 flags with the youth group..they look like a bunch of sardines in the back seat]
~ "Sardines that love each other very very much. I'd give anything for another sardine." --one of the boys

Watching little kids play basketball at camp...
~ "No offense, but I hate you." --13yo friend. (they were good lol)

~ "I officially like hate you now! in a brotherly...Christian way." --one of my best friends lol [camp lifeguard]

~~God gave me you for the ups and downs
God gave me you for the days of doubt
For when I think I’ve lost my way
There are no words here left to say, it’s true
God gave me you~~ <--♥♥♥ this song!

-- campgirl♥

"I know not who you are, nor where you came from. But may I just say..."Hi. How ya doing?"
-Flynn Rider, "Tangled" (movie, 2010)

A few real life ones this time...

Me: "[name] is on the phone for you."
Co-worker: "Which line?"
Me: "Line one."
Co-worker, several seconds later: "Oh... yeah... the only one that's lit up. I guess that was a stupid question."

Co-worker: "I thought I heard the printer not being happy."
(He was just asking if the printer was working alright, but I thought his phrasing was hilarious! )

"This cup smells of French fries and sausage mcgriddles!" - Dee, while drinking from a McDonalds cup.

"Some people are like dryers; you get out what you put in...only smaller." - Dee.

"flam and I work best in a pair. We're like socks." - Dee. Love this one! XD

“Do not let the actions of God - what He does or does not do - determine your faith in Him. Let your faith in God determine your own actions.” - Me.

And lastly, my new favorite song lyrics...

"Noel, noel,
Jesus is Alive,
Emmanuel,
hope is here tonight,
So go and tell
the world that death has died,
'Cause Jesus is Alive!
Yes, Jesus is Alive!"
- Jesus is Alive, by Josh Wilson (his new Christmas song, which will be released later this year! I got to hear him play it live; it was breathtaking.)

--- flambeau

Hardison: Goin' to Plan B?
Nate: Technically that would be Plan G.
Hardison: How many plans do we have? Is there, like, a Plan M?
Nate: Yeah. Hardison dies in Plan M.
Eliot: I like Plan M.

Eliot: What's in it for me?
Nate: Payback. And if it goes right, a lot of money.
Parker: And what's in it for me?
Nate: A lot of money. And if it goes right, payback.

Hardison: [about Eliot breaking a camera with a rock] I'm sorry it was too far away for you to punch. I'm sure that really frustrates you.

Nate: Wait. This-this is a movie about NATO troops being attacked by werewolves. No, there is no emotional payoff!

Sophie: Are you drunk?
Nate: Technically, no. I was drunk a couple of hours ago. Now, I'm just hung over.

Eliot: Nice job, blowing out the engine block.
Hardison: I was aiming for his leg.
[beat]
Eliot: Gimme the gun, Hardison!

[trying to teach Parker about persuasion]
Eliot: [smiles] I love apples. Apples are my favorite fruit.
Parker: [flatly] Good for you, Sparky.
Eliot: I-I don't have to sit here and take this crap.
Sophie: Go on. Just do it for me.
Eliot: You have an orange, alright? Now convince me that I want the orange, not the apple. Gonna take a bite. You-you... [takes a bite]
Parker: [suddenly] I put a razor blade in that apple!
Eliot: [spits it out] Are you serious? [breaks apple in half in search of razor blade]
Parker: Maybe. But do you know what doesn't have a razor blade in it? This orange. Don't you want it? [throws orange at him]

Maggie: You actually expect this to work?
Hardison: Um, no, no. You're supposed to say, "Wow. That's just crazy enough to work."
Sophie: Incredibly, chance does seem to bend itself to his bizarre machinations.
Parker: That's his superpower.

Eliot: Oh, she's dressed up as a nun for a con.
Nate: Did you think she was just dressed up like a nun for no reason?
Eliot: It's Parker.
[beat]
Nate: ...Fair enough.

[reading a review of Sophie's performance in a play]
Parker: "Never before has a production of The Sound of Music made me root for the Nazis."

Nate: If you have a body in the trunk of your car, you're going to drive under the speed limit, aren't you?
Parker: You know, when you're sober your metaphors get creepier.

Sophie: I'm going to be Nate on this one. You know, only nicer.

Parker: Is that C-4?
Sophie: Oh! Parker... please don't poke at the motion-sensitive bomb.

Nate: Friend of yours?
Sophie: Well, if by that you mean murderous, treacherous backstabber, then yes.
Nate: Yeah, I thought so. Seemed like your type.

Parker: [considering the idea of reindeer games] How would they even keep score?

Hardison: Next time y'all call me, it better be for something easy, like faking a moon landing.

~Leverage, various episodes

"Do not conform to the patterns of this world but rather be transformed by the renewing of your mind."

-Jon Foreman

"Do not conform to the patterns of this world but rather be transformed by the renewing of your mind."

-Jon Foreman

That's from Romans 12:2. Not Jon Foreman.

~Riella