"These are my three favorite words"

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Where the words wait

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

A reminder

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

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

What a writer regrets

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

What a writer regrets

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

Now and forever

Dragontales is still in my blood.

Jimmy wishes this would happen to him

"The sentences are coming at me so quickly."

She's deep

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

Logic

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

Happy Monday morning

"My toothpaste tastes pitiful!"

Supermarket instructions

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

At the peak of this morning's braiding emergency

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

Must prioritize

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

"explanation point"

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

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

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

What I don't have and what I have

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

Before it's too late

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

Ask her anything

"I am a walking Eli encyclopedia."

Not the game I brought her up to play

"Dad, let's play Fox News!"

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

"Yay, it's meat night!"

Not today

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

Disparity

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

More evidence that her parents are insufficiently attuned to her

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

Whose nut?

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

Just before the boil

"Mama, the kettle is lightly screaming."

Thank goodness for feet

"The only thing holding me up is my feet."

Watch where you put those biceps

"Did you ever think you had biceps in your butt? Well, I do."