What Grace Said

Where the words wait

Jimmy — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 23:39:00 +0000

"I have a mouth full of words to say."

A reminder

Jimmy — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 00:20:00 +0000

Grace: Who's that talking on the radio?
Jimmy: Anne Rice.
Grace: Who's she?
Jimmy: A writer.
Grace: I feel like I've heard her name before.
Jimmy: You might have. She's a very popular book writer.
Grace: Are you a popular book writer?
Jimmy: (pause) No.

The contradictions of life

Jimmy — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 23:53:00 +0000

"I like pink, but I don't like pink."

What a writer regrets

Jane — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 20:32:00 +0000

"If I didn't watch tv yesterday, my brain would be fresh and I would have all these wonderful sentences."

What a writer regrets

Jane — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 20:32:00 +0000

"If I didn't watch tv yesterday, my brain would be fresh and I would have all these wonderful sentences."

Now and forever

Jimmy — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 14:49:00 +0000

Dragontales is still in my blood.

Jimmy wishes this would happen to him

Jimmy — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 02:05:00 +0000

"The sentences are coming at me so quickly."

She's deep

Jimmy — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 14:01:00 +0000

"[Name redacted] sort-of doesn't know how life works."

Logic

Jane — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 22:15:00 +0000

"If you're warm, you're loved."

Happy Monday morning

Jimmy — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 12:31:00 +0000

"My toothpaste tastes pitiful!"

Supermarket instructions

Jimmy — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 21:51:00 +0000

"Get me some meat, because I'm not going to be a vegetarian until Thursday."

At the peak of this morning's braiding emergency

Jimmy — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 13:30:00 +0000

[screaming] Dad! You don't anything about anything! Capiche?!

Must prioritize

Jimmy — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 02:02:00 +0000

"I'm thirsty and I have to go to the bathroom."

"explanation point"

Jimmy — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 14:18:00 +0000

That's what she says instead of "exclamation point."

Last night, at 11.02 pm, she's asleep, but ...

Jimmy — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 13:28:00 +0000

...she shouts "Mom!" Then, quieter, she says, "I'm a pirate."

What I don't have and what I have

Jimmy — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 01:44:00 +0000

"I don't have any homework, but I have a bladder like a kitten."

Before it's too late

Jimmy — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 15:10:00 +0000

"Dad, you'd better take the laundry downstairs before it turns into Mt. Everest."

Ask her anything

Jane — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 00:31:00 +0000

"I am a walking Eli encyclopedia."

Not the game I brought her up to play

Jimmy — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 18:24:00 +0000

"Dad, let's play Fox News!"

After noticing that her vegetarian siblings weren't home for dinner

Jimmy — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 16:32:00 +0000

"Yay, it's meat night!"

Not today

Jimmy — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 14:12:00 +0000

"I always have these great ideas, but not today."

Disparity

Jimmy — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 11:12:00 +0000

"I have a little iPod and you all have glasses."

More evidence that her parents are insufficiently attuned to her

Jimmy — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 13:17:00 +0000

"You only wash things that I can't wear on drowsy days."

Whose nut?

Jimmy — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 01:20:00 +0000

Jane: Grace, you're a nut.
Grace: But I'm your nut.

Just before the boil

Jimmy — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 23:27:00 +0000

"Mama, the kettle is lightly screaming."