big news! over the summer i will be nannying for two girls, aged 6 and 11 from 630am to 530pm, five days a week. this obviously leaves no time for blogging so im like

thinking about how this blog has so much potential to diminish during that time. however, i have come up with an appropriate segment called

aka
“kids say the darnest things.” obviously i won’t stop posting on everything else, since the format of how i get content for this dweebsite isn’t much different than what i will be doing. well, that’s kind of a lie. kids require less internet. but i always carry a notepad and pen on me for when i see stuff irl that i need to remember. and an iphone.
i’m mostly excited because of the almost infinite power i have over these very malleable children. their dad asked that we do a few hours of homework and reading in the morning which means i am totally whipping out “To Kill a Mockingbird” which i read for the first time in 4th grade and would love to read to them out loud. that’s my favorite book (Lolita too, but i obviously can’t read that to them. barf). favorite literary quotes:
“I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It’s when you know you’re licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do.” – Atticus Finch, To Kill a Mockingbird
“They’re certainly entitled to think that, and they’re entitled to full respect for their opinions… but before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.” - Atticus Finch, To Kill a Mockingbird
“Two households, both alike in dignity,
In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,
From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,
Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.
5 From forth the fatal loins of these two foes
A pair of star-cross’d lovers take their life;
Whole misadventured piteous overthrows
Do with their death bury their parents’ strife.
The fearful passage of their death-mark’d love,
10 And the continuance of their parents’ rage,
Which, but their children’s end, nought could remove,
Is now the two hours’ traffic of our stage;
The which if you with patient ears attend,
What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend.” – Romeo and Juliet (not a book, shut up) Prologue, Shakesphere
“Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta. She was Lo, plain Lo, in the morning, standing four feet ten in one sock. She was Lola in slacks. She was Dolly at school. She was Dolores on the dotted line. But in my arms she was always Lolita. Did she have a precursor? She did, indeed she did. In point of fact, there might have been no Lolita at all had I not loved, one summer, an initial girl-child. In a princedom by the sea. Oh when? About as many years before Lolita was born as my age was that summer. You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style. Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, exhibit number one is what the seraphs, the misinformed, simple, noble-winged seraphs, envied. Look at this tangle of thorns.” – Humbert Humbert, Lolita
“I was half in love with her by the time we sat down. That’s the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty, even if they’re not much to look at, or even if they’re sort of stupid, you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are.” Holden Caulfield, Catcher in the Rye
“Because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.” Anne Frank, Diary of Anne Frank
“The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Because its only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well, they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on. If you can change the way people think. The way they see themselves. The way they see the world. You can change the way people live their lives. That’s the only lasting thing you can create.” – Chuck Palahniuk, Choke
this is all i can think of at the top of my head.