"My relationship with the schnoodles is so complicated."
- Ingrid 

Photo by Danielle

“Yes, the long war on Christianity. I pray that one day we may live in an America where Christians can worship freely! In broad daylight! Openly wearing the symbols of their religion... perhaps around their necks? And maybe -- dare I dream it? -- maybe one day there can be an openly Christian President. Or, perhaps, 44 of them. Consecutively.”
- Jon Stewart

"Blessed is she who believes."
- Luke 1:45

“[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.”
- Michel de Montaigne

"'Did you know that the average American spends six months of his or her life waiting for red lights to turn green? Six months wasted, waiting for permission to move on. Think of all the other stuff you could do with that time.'
I was totally confused. 'In the car?'
'In your life,' he said."
- Megan McCafferty

“The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely.”
- Charlotte Brontë

"Once in a while it really hits people that they don't have to experience the world in the way they have been told to."
- Alan Keightley

"I ate a brownie once, at a party in college.  It was intense.  It was kind of indescribable actually.  I felt like I was floating.  Turns out there wasn't any pot in the brownie.  It was just an insanely good brownie."
- Leslie Knope, Parks and Recreation 2.02

"Listen earnestly to anything your children want to tell you, no matter what.  If you don't listen eagerly to the little stuff when they are little, they won't tell you the big stuff when they are big, because to them all of it has always been big stuff."
- Catherine Wallace

"We thought we lost you
Welcome back"
- The New Pornographers, "Adventures in Solitude"

"Sometimes when God closes a door...he breaks your heart."
- Leland Stottlemeyer, Monk 4.12

"When the Lord closes a door, somewhere he opens a window."
- Reverend Mother, The Sound of Music

"What a commentary on civilization, when being alone is being suspect; when one has to apologize for it, make excuses, hide the fact that one practices it -- like a secret vice."
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

"What the world requires of the Christians is that they should continue to be Christians."
- Samuel Adams

"Librarians...possess a vast store of politeness.  These are people who get asked regularly the dumbest questions on God's green earth.  These people tolerate every kind of crank and eccentric and mouth-breather there is."
- Garrison Keillor

"These are my heart songs
They never feel wrong
And when I wake for goodness sake
These are the songs I keep singin'"
- Weezer, "Heart Songs"

"I told you eating something called 'stick of butter in a bun' was a bad idea!"
- Shawn, Psych 6.02 (see also)

"If I'm talking to a guy who's straight and cute and single, I'm like, 'Are you a unicorn?'"
- Margaret Cho

“The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not healing, not curing... that is a friend who cares.”
- Henri Nouwen

"Come night, come darkness, for you cannot come too soon or stay too long by such a place as this! Come, straggling lights into the windows of the ugly houses; and you who do iniquity therein, do it at least with this dread scene shut out!"
- Charles Dickens, Bleak House

"There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread."
- Mahatma Gandhi

"Reserve the right to have crappy ideas."
- Laura Simms

"Technically I'm a vegetarian, but lately I've been eating lard. It's like log cabin times."
- E.B.

“It’s incredible being given the opportunity to shatter glass ceilings but the more important focus is making sure we are creating a path many more will follow. I might not have aspired to public office if women and openly gay and lesbian candidates hadn’t run before me and shown me that doing so was possible. I recognized when I became the first woman elected to congress from the state of Wisconsin and first out lesbian elected in the history of U.S. that that’s not enough. We need to have legislative bodies that reflect America. Being a first is an extraordinary privilege, but the battle is won when there are many.”
-Tammy Baldwin (Smith '84)

"Look back, to slavery, to suffrage, to integration and one thing is clear. Fashions in bigotry come and go. The right thing lasts."
- Anna Quindlen

"To do then now would be retro. To do then then was very now-tro, if you will."
- Mark, A Mighty Wind

"Your dad hasn't changed his ways since he was six months old. For the first six months, I gave him the benefit of the doubt."
- C.E.

"Think well. Speak well. Do well. These three things, through the mercy of God, will make a man go to Heaven."
- St. Camillus de Lellis

"I'd like to single out some heroes, okay, like the nurses at NYU Hospital.  After the hospital generators failed, these nurses carried twenty newborns down nine flights of stairs while manually operating respirators."
- Stephen Colbert (see also)

"I have always imagined that paradise will be kind of a library."
- Jorges Luis Borges