Quotes from England

old woman crossing the street against the signal, "naughty."

charming british roommate named lauren,

"I've never been in this room, but it's shitty."

"Hello, darling. i love you. no, i love you more. i love you. when are we going to buy the materials for our raft?"

tiffany, upon seeing a mossy stone house, "that buildings all lichened out."

rebekah, after seeing dark clouds in the distance, "tut-tut."

rebekah's dream: "i had a dream my two front teeth turned into my pinky toes and were called 'feeth.'"

rebekah on her dad's winning a limerick writing contest, "the competition was not stiff."

secret communication system i devised to talk to tiffany late at night, "we need some sort of squeaky, pulley system made out of of old shoestring that we can attach notes to and send across the room."

rebekah mishearing me say, "my heart was palpitating." "i thought you said, 'my heart was beating like a hot potato.'"

my reply to a british couple who looked confused by our obsession with a toad, "i'm sorry. we're new to nature."

after throwing tea into a british river on the 4th of july, "can you see my defiance floating in the river?" or "can you see my floating defiance?"

young child at the national gallery asking his teacher about van gogh cutting of part of his ear, "is it like britney spears shaving her head?"

teacher's reply, "It is a bit like britney spears, i guess, but he wasn't famous at the time. no one knew who he was."

"I don't trust a man who doesn't swing his arms when he walks."

tiffany, i think, describing a former roommate, "she had hearing problems, but she was also STU-PID."

exchange with waiter at greek restaurant near covent garden: (to be transcribed later)