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~Sarah G. [01.15.08]
"So, reading past "happenings" on A&A and I can't believe you outed my tee-ball-striking out self! Don't blame your athletic inability on me. I needed glasses!"
~Sarah G. [01.15.08]
"I think you need to post that on your facepage!"
~Mama G., to my newly Facebook-obsessed sister, in reference to long-lost footage of a trio consisting of Sarah on trombone, our sister Jenn on piano, and me on the violin [02.06.08]
“I can be your internet.”
~Cara, in response to Ashley’s assertion that she’d rather eat at her desk during lunch because the internet is there [02.13.08]
“I was only half-listening, which is so D.C.”
~Viv, as she attempted to recall the specifics of a story told to her by a friend who, after two years in California, has become "so L.A." [02.18.08]
“If there is a dipping behavior out there that actually offends you, then it’s gotta be too much.”
~Annie D., to Ash [02.14.08]
“Oooh, I knew about that, but I didn't care...”
~Ashley, slightly embarrassed, about the debunked rumor that Forever XXI uses child labor [03.05.08]
"I can't just keep giving you this free advice."
~Guitar Boy, schooling Ashley on how best to participate in the Wizards' game t-shirt launch [03.11.08]
"Does alliteration make everything okay?! I don't think so!"
~Ashley, upon hearing about a college party with the theme "Handcuffs and Heinekens" [03.15.08]
"We would actually be closer friends if you would text."
~Clarissa to Annie D. [03.15.08]
"You really need to read A&A[.com], You're making me repeat myself."
~Ashley to Dana [03.27.08]
"You look like you could be straight out of river dance."
~Cara, seemingly based on Ashley's hair, but possibly also on her dress [03.17.08]
"I'd rather be on The Hills though."
~Zack Attack, after nabbing a seat at a Senate hearing that enabled him to be a star on closed-circuit C-SPAN [04.24.08]
"You fulfilled my 7-year-old Grease fantasy."
~Annie D., regarding the premiere of Ashley's high-wasted denim shorts at the Juniper Lane show [05.06.08]
"(A) I'm too old for that, and (b) I don't think I was ever young enough for that."
~Cara, on... well... it applies to so much, really [05.05.08]
"We're the darkest people you know and our minds went to terrible places."
~Rooker, about herself and Potter, exhibiting excessive worry when their friends showed up 10 minutes late [05.24.08]
"Time for a witty cocktail napkin!"
~Anne, after having white wine spilled on her by the bartender. (Ok, ok, it might have been me.) [05.24.08]
"This IS art, by the way. This is NOT 'music is my beach house.'"
~Guitar Boy, as he forced me to listen to Pink Floyd's The Wall [06.04.08]
"What I don't understand is why a cab would come here..."
~Annie D., as if Portsmouth, VA is a godforsaken location [04.26.08]
"Normal's a setting on a dryer."
~Miranda, emphasizing her point that everyone should be in therapy [05.29.08]
"He clings to hierarchies, like rural people cling to God and guns."
~Ashley, most likely misquoting Obama, while describing Cecil's desire for "knowing his place" [07.09.08]
"It’s a good thing you were born in the 20th century, otherwise I think you would have made a good political prisoner…for most of your adult life."
~Jack, fave colleague and fellow W&M grad, to Ashley [07.09.08]
"He knows what a monogram is now..."
~Libby, on how much Zack's 21-year-old brother has grown and matured while spending the summer in D.C. [07.26.08]
"Well, you have to pull it off."
~Anne M., on how not just anyone can sport aprons as a fashion accessory [08.07.08]
"He's knocking on eight."
~Sarah M., on a ten-point scale from not gay at all to totally gay [08.09.08]
"I don't think you're taking this seriously."
~Matt T., admonishing Ashley's approach to rocking out during Michael Jackson's 'Billy Jean' [08.09.08]