Tag: silly quotes
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Fancy Hat
With release day fast approaching, when I start to obsess over interview answers like a single sentence will directly impact sales, I should probably remember this wisdom from the sister: Me: I’m a bit crazy-eyed at the moment. Release day is soon The Sister: that should be yay-ful! yay books 😀 Me: NO ONE WILL…
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My Father
My father, the scientist: Dad: Your laundry comes home all smooshed and stuffed into bags, and goes out neatly folded. Dad: It’s so nice we can help decrease your entropy.
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Lighting
Me: Your bathroom lightbulbs are set to “undead” Dad: What? Me: They make you look all pale and slightly blue. Unless I’m actually slightly pale and blue. Dad: You kind of are. Me: What? No, it’s the fluorescent bulbs! They mess with skin tones! Dad: Those are some of the only incandescents we have left…
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Overlarge Vocabularies of Writers
Worldcon Dinner Conversation Me: I wonder if they’ll think I’m a pleb if I ask for ketchup with this. Tablemate: I think if you can use the word pleb, you’re not a pleb.
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Steak and Ice Cream
Conversations with family: [Dad and I are discussing cooking shows while he gets himself ice cream] Me: I would lose so badly on those things. I couldn’t even cook a steak, because I don’t eat them. Dad: Well, you eat them in restaurants. But that doesn’t help you cook it at home, though. [He chips…
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In your refridgerator
[In the midst of a conversation about what kind of romantic elements we liked in our fiction] Me: I like my melodrama in my melodrama Not in my adventure stories Friend: I misread that for ‘melondrama’ for a second and started considering what a melon love story would look like. NO CANTALOUPE. WE CAN NOT…
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Obey the box
We stop for gas at a station a block off the freeway, on a route we have traveled multiple times a year for the entirety of my childhood. As we pull out, Dad boots the GPS unit, otherwise known as the Magic Box That Tells Us Where to Go: Me: Are you turning on the…
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Drafting process
Discovery draft troubles: (and unhelpful friends) Me: wtf time of day is it right now in my stupid novel anyway Friend: Twilight. Friend: *ducks before she gets smacked* XD