"Ask her how long it takes after you could have been subjected to mad cow disease before you can give blood... ask ask ask!"--Diana
"No, Laura, you do it"--Helen
*kid in front of us turns around*
"haha"--Kid
*pause... widened eyes...* "ahaha!"--Helen/Diana

"Ask how long until you can give blood after you've been stabbed"--Diana


"What if I were branded?"--Diana


*we continue to talk to him until the second floor*
"..did you know that kid?"--Diana
"No"--Helen
"How hot was he?"--Diana
"HOT"--Helen

*in the car to Barnes & Noble*
"oh my god, how hot was that kid"--Diana
"I KNOW!"--Helen


"I was like looking for him for the rest of the day"--Diana
"Me too! I was just like 'kid? are you on the stairs?"--Helen


"Yeah, on the stairs is a good place to look for people, you just climb to the top and look down the middle"--Diana


"I was like... wa? ... he's trying to talk to us? about mad cow disease?"--Helen


"He has our sense of humor!"--Helen
"I know! It's when we start talking about mad cow disease that most people turn back around... but not this kid, oh no"--Diana



*Looking for a place to write quotes down*
"I'll use the Can-Can... no one's going to flippin' make me practice that"--Diana


"I really wanted a baroque bow"--Mrs. Sippler
"I'll break your bow"--Mr. Brubaker


"It says optional harpsichord cadenza"--Conductor
"Woah... let's do it!"--Kid behind me


"You play the solo"--Girl sitting in for principle cellist
"uh-uh, you're in Matt's seat, let his spirit guide you"--Kid behind her



(about Mr. Brubaker)
"Oh my god, when he played that one note with vibrato I almost cried"--Helen
"I KNOW! It was in first position and on the A string and he made it sound as if angels were pouring out of his cello"--Diana


(Helen's family conversing)
“Hey, they just started talking about feudalism in this chapter…do they expect me to know what feudalism is? Oh, the explanation was in the last chapter…and I didn’t read it” –Helen
“You know you shouldn’t call it feudalism”-Helen’s dad (the history professor)
“How about the feudal system?”- Helen’s mom
“No…that’s *worse*”-Helen’s dad
“Well, what should I call it?”- Helen
“I like to call it feudal *politics*”- Helen’s dad



“Your family has smart conversations…Mine go like this ‘Duuuuuuh’”- Diana



“Yeah, my dad even has a working knowledge of physics and chemistry”- Helen
"That's why I can't wait to get away from these people. To get away from conversations like: 'hey dad, do you remember the mean value theorem?' 'ADuuuuhhh... Cal-CUE-Lus?'"--Diana

“And, my dad’s an engineer”- Diana

“Next time someone asks you what you want to be after college, you should say I want to be an engineer…a train engineer”- Helen
“Then I’ll go CHOO CHOO, and slowly walk away going chugga chugga chugga”- Diana
“Then, when you’re about twenty feet away, stop and go all aboard!”- Helen



"We have to buy that special hot cocoa for my mom!"--Helen
"What would your parents do if I bought them some ovaltine?"--Diana


"Be mad at you"--Helen
"And then I'll come over and be like 'More ovaltine please!'"--Diana


(as the cashier is staring at us)
"What's that one chocolate milk with the rabbit?"--Diana
"...what are you talking about? there's no rabbit, you freak"--Helen
"No seriously!... it's like"--Diana
"Fake?"--Helen



"OH! The RABBIT!"--Helen
"Yeah! what's the slogan for that?... it's like "--Diana
"The good stuff kids go for!... wait no that's like chex"--Helen
"KIX!"--Diana



“My family will know that I was at Barnes and Noble. They’ll smell it on me. You smell like hot cocoa and biscotti!! If they were smart and knew what biscotti were”- Diana
“Duuuuhhh, you smell gooood"--Helen


"and not like preettty good, liiike eatin’ goooood”- Helen (in southern drawl)