~"There are all kinds of courage. It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends." - Dumbledore
~Well she tires to believe it, that she's been given new life
But she can't shake the feeling that it's not true tonight
She knows all the answers and she's rehearsed all the lines
And so she'll try to do better, but then she's too weak to try
Don't you know who you are?
You are more than the choices that you've made
You are more than the some of your past mistakes
You are more than the problems you create,
You've been re-made.
- Tenth Avenue North
~We live
We love
We forgive and never give up
Cause they days we are given given are gifts from above
And today we remember to live and to love
-superchick
~Why are looking for love
why are you still searching as if I’m not enough
to where will you go child, tell me where will you run, where will you run
cause I’ll be by you side wherever you fall
in the dead of night when ever you call
and please don't fight these hands that are holding you
my hands are holding you
-Tenth avenue north
~The Lord himself goes before you and will be with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged.Deuteronomy 31:8
~ Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be terrified; do not be discouraged, for the Lord your God will be with you wherever you go. Joshua 1:9
~I lift up my eyes to the hills- where does my help come from? My help comes from the Lord, the maker of heaven and earth.Psalm 121:1-2
~With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.Matthew 19:26
~For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only son, that whoever believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.John 3:16
~He must become greater; I must become less.John 3:30
~If any one of you is without sin, let him be the first to throw the stone at her.John 8:9
~Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always preserves.1 Corinthians 13:4-7
~"It's my mother's name, too. She named me after herself. She was lying in the hospital thinking about how men name boys after themselves all the time, you know, so why couldn't women? She says her feminism just kind of took over. Though personally I think a lot of Demerol also went into that decision. I never talk this much." - Rory
~"This is a serious problem. These Friday dinners are the only proper food that child eats all week."
"Rory, are you in any way malnourished or in need of some international relief organization to recruit a celebrity to raise money on your account?" - Emily and Richard
~"You are like a mythological creature that casts some kind of spell on me and makes me act stupid. I'm not stupid. I don't act stupid with anyone else."- Max
~"I hate fighting with friends."
"That's what enemies are for."
"And God knows we have our share of those."
- Rory and Lorelai
~"He has had to watch you go from one guy to another, and then the engagement, and then the engagement was off, and patiently he's waited. And now in walks this kid and he says, 'My God, will she date anyone else in the world before she'll date me?'"
- Sookie
~"Richard, you didn’t even notice your own granddaughter isn’t here?"
"She’s so quiet she sometimes slips in unnoticed. She should work for the CIA."
- Emily and Richard
~"I mean, we’re not good friends but we’re friends. We’re friendly... Friendish might be a better term."
- Rory
~"You seem to have a very firm grasp of the English language. You put together several full sentences, even using a couple of words that contain two or more syllables, and then my mother appears and suddenly we need a thought bubble over your head to understand what you’re thinking. Can you tell me why that is?"
"The verbal thing comes and goes."
- Rory and Jess
~"I don't know what anything means anymore. I mean, I can't even read my own handwriting. What does this say? The person who wrote this should be dressed in a clown suit stuffing bodies under their porch."
- Paris
~"When we gather as a family, we eat as a family. We don’t eat in shifts."
"You know, you’re bound by the rules of the Geneva Convention, Mother, just like everyone else."
- Emily and Lorelai
~ "I’m gonna need a picture of this Jess so I don’t accidentally rip the head off the wrong kid 'cause that would be bad."
- Christopher
~"Rory, honey, do you understand, the Gilmores do nothing altruistically. Strings are attached to everything."
"There are no strings... I just have to pay them back starting five years after I graduate, and I have to start going back for Friday night dinners."
"Um, hello, Pinocchio, those are strings."
- Lorelai and Rory
~"I live in two worlds. One is a world of books. I've been a resident of Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County, hunted the white whale aboard the Pequot, fought alongside Napoleon, sailed a raft with Huck and Jim, committed absurdities with Ignatius J. Reilly, rode a sad train with Anna Karenina, and strolled down Swann's Way. It's a rewarding world, but my second one is by far superior. My second one is populated with characters slightly less eccentric but supremely real, made of flesh and bone, full of love, who are my ultimate inspiration for everything."
- Rory
~"I humiliate myself at least six times a year for this town, and just because I'm going to Yale, that's not going to stop. Now the reason I am not the Ice Cream Queen is because Taylor never asked me. I didn't know about it, and that's why I was busy. Now I love this town, I will be back in that ridiculous pilgrim outfit at Thanksgiving, so everybody just get off my back."
- Rory
~"As we speak, I am working on the perfect alibi. I've come up with lots of, you know, mid-afternoon and evening alibis, but so far no 1:00 AM alibis... I'll come up with something. My entire life has been a training session for this very event."
- Lane
~"That had all the tact of a Nazi storm trooper."
- Rory
~"Rory... right now is the point in the horror movie where the entire audience is yelling, 'Don't go in there.'"
- Lorelai
~”The cats -- they know that I've broken up with Jason and that I'm alone and they've decided it's time for me to become a crazy cat lady... they can see it in my face. 'She's single again. She couldn't make it work again. She picked the wrong guy again.”
- Lorelai
~"Did I lose?"
"Well, you have no head, so probably."
"So this is what teenage boys are doing instead of watching television? Seems like a lateral move."
- Rory and Lane
~"That man is why mail-order brides were invented."
- Michel
~"It was a great kiss. If one of us had been a frog, it would have had some seriously impressive consequences."
- Lorelai
~"Once you get the hang of it, it's pretty easy to duplicate...Why are you whispering?"
"Because I just think that no matter where she is, my mom can hear this conversation."
- Rory and Lane
~"What is this, a Henry James novel? The young lady acts up, and her family ships her off to Europe?"
- Rory
~"So I'm looking at this piece of paper in my hand, and under 'Scorpio,' she had written, 'you will meet an annoying woman today. Give her coffee and she'll go away.' I gave her coffee."
- Luke
~"Lorelai, this thing we're doing here — me, you — I just want you to know I'm in. I am all in."
- Luke
~"He's not good enough for her."
"Well, who is? Jess?"
"No, not Jess. A prince, maybe. One that's in line to be king. Not one of those waiting-for-a-brother-to-die ones, but a real one. If not a prince, someone who's gonna be good for her. You know, Rory is like Pippi. She can have adventures and be free, she's smart. The whole world's waiting for her."
- Luke and Lorelai
~ "Man, I hate those kind of guys — those privileged, white males."
"Doyle, you’re a privileged white male."
"Well, he’s more privileged. And way more whiter."
- Doyle and Rory,
~"People can live a hundred years without really living for a minute. You climb up here with me, it’s one less minute you haven’t lived."
- Logan
~"I have someone standing abnormally close to me right now. I'll call you later?"
"Okay, say hi to Kirk for me."
- Lorelai and Rory
~"Are you ever going to ask me out? You flirt with me. You act like you like me a little. You show up here, with a friend, not a date. I mean, aren’t you? Ever? You do like me, right?"
- Rory
~"You are beautiful. You are intelligent. You are incredibly interesting. You’re definitely girlfriend material. I, however, am definitely not boyfriend material. I can’t do commitment, and I don’t want to pretend to you that I can."
- Logan
~"I lined the path to the bedroom door with rose petals? You had to have seen that!"
"I thought you tracked them in. You’re always stepping in things, Zach."
- Zach and Lane
~"You go to the town meetings. You say hello to people. You have a daughter that looks like she belongs on top of a Christmas tree."
- Luke
~"You’re breaking up, the, the house is going through a tunnel."
- Lorelai
~"Rory never even shoplifted. Not a candy bar, not a lipstick. She forgot to return a library book once. And she was so guilty about it that she grounded herself. I mean, can you imagine? She’s just sitting there in her bedroom yelling at me, 'Now no one else got to read the Iliad this week because of me!'"
- Lorelai
~"According to my mother I am going to hell for this. That’s commitment, my friends! Eternal damnation is what I’m risking for my rock and roll!"
- Lane
~"Paris. Listen to me. You are a very smart, driven young lady. You can be anything you want. Except a diplomat. You don't need Rory to push you."
"Rory's my only friend. She stays in the room until I'm completely done saying something. I need that."
- Lorelai and Paris
~" I told Rory we were engaged."
"...Why! Why would you do that?"
"Why? Because she had the face! The Rory face! You know the face."
- Luke and Lorelai
~"This tastes pink. Really pink. It's really bad; it's like drinking My Little Pony."
- Luke
~"They never invited their priest over to try and talk you out of having sex."
"Five times! And on the last one, they triple-teamed with a priest, a rabbi, and a Mormon missionary. I made so many jokes that night I should have had a microphone and a brick wall behind me."
- Rory and Lorelai
~"It's going to be a great term, people. An important term. A term to change the history of the Yale Daily News. The work will be hard. It has to be hard. Nothing less than perfect will be tolerated. Please remember that I am your editor. I am not your mother, or your hugger. If you need some love, get a hooker. If you're having a bad day, find a ledge or way to deal. My door is not open to you, ever. You have five minutes to enjoy your cookies. Welcome to the Yale Daily News."
- Paris
~"We were only apart for like two seconds and you managed to sleep with every one of your sister's friends! How did you even do that? I mean, did you work them in shifts?"
- Rory
~"What is Stars Hollow if not a haven for colorful characters?"
- Sookie
~"I don't like ultimatums."
"I don't like Mondays, but unfortunately, they come around eventually."
- Luke and Lorelai
~"Do you want your kid to spend her life behind the counter at Dunkin' Donuts? Do you? ...Because that's where she's headed, selling chocolate donuts and glazed fritters for the next 40 years to people in business suits who actually gave a crap about their academic future... She's got a C average, which means she's either lazy or stupid. I can work with either. Frankly, sometimes stupid is easier. I can scare the stupid out of you, but the lazy runs deep."
- Paris
~"Honestly someone with your chipper personality ought to be a weather girl or a preschool teacher."
- Emily
~"Logan Huntzberger? Between the women and the drinking, that kid was on the Colin Farrell freeway about to pull over into the Robert Downey jr. Rest stop... He's changed. You changed him. It's amazing."
- Paris
~"We had to write a five-page fictional story featuring someone we know as the hero, and I chose Kirk. It's hilarious."
- April
~"I love you, Paris Geller. You are the strongest, most infuriating, most exciting woman I have ever met in my entire life, and there is no way I'm gonna let you go."
- Doyle
~"So, I think I’m in touch with the other side."
"The other side of..."
"The other side."
"With Republicans?"
"No. Lately I’ve been having these dark premonitions."
- Lorelai
~"What was with those kids? So curious, so full of questions. Shouldn’t their brains be completely fried on TV and video games by now?"
- Lorelai
~"Rory, your grandfather and I thought it might be nice after dinner for you to go around the house and pick out what you'd like us to leave you in our wills... You should have what you like. So look around and when you see something you like stick a Post-It on it."
- Emily
~"How is my running with you gonna change anything?"
"Because people think you’re nice. You’re quiet, you say excuse me, you look like little birds help you get dressed in the morning. People don’t fear you."
- Rory and Paris
~"I think she periodically makes a whirring noise and then just shuts down."
- Rory
~"So, I downloaded your reading lists, and I went to the bookstore and hid copies of your books so you wouldn't get stuck buying used ones with some idiot's comments in the margins."
- Paris
~"I know you have very strict rules about dating and boys, but I just want you to know that I'm a good person. I don't smoke, I don't drink, I've never gotten a ticket, I'm healthy, I take care of myself, I floss. I never watch more than 30 minutes of television a night partly because I think it's a waste of time and partly because there's nothing on. I respect my parents, I do well in school, I never play video games in case they do someday prove that playing them can turn you into a serial killer. I don't drink coffee. I hate soda because the carbonation freaks me out. I'm happy to give up meat if you feel strongly about it. I don't mind wearing a tie. I enjoy playing those hymns on my guitar, and I really, really want to take your daughter to the prom."
-Dave
