"So what's your new apartment like?"
"Well, it's got a living room, and a hallway, and the bedrooms are doors off the hallway... it's kinda like a hotel, I guess, or a house."
--A girl and a guy in the elevator in Bechtel Hall

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Let me get this straight, it's kind of like a house... or even, say, an apartment? I wonder if it comes with windows and walls, too... (Then again, given the housing situation 'round Berkeley, you can't be too demanding.)

"But before we went out, I had no idea how raccoon-like she was."
--One twenty-something guy to another, standing in front of Blake's Bar & Restaurant on Telegraph

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So do you think that means that she wears a lot of dark eye make-up, or that shiny things grab her attention?

"Harry Potter, Pottery Barn, what's the difference?"
--One girl to another walking down Hearst Ave

"ARAGH! Oh, repent for that sin! Blasphemer!"
*shakes head and looks at the sky*
"The first Godzilla movie was in 1955, NOT 1998!!!"
--A man shouting on Sproul Plaza

"You know, I will just never understand designer pleather."
--One girl, to another who nodded in agreeance, in Wicked, (a trendy boutique.)

"I found it's best to read that book outdoors."
--A woman on BART, gesturing to the John Grisham novel the woman sitting next to her was reading

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Granted, I didn't see which one it was (though would it really have mattered?) but I can't think of a good reason for needing to read ANY John Grisham novel outdoors.

This book, however, should be read outdoors, in full sunlight. (And I'll bet you never thought you'd be weirded out by WALLS...)

"Excuse me, but I'd like to tell you that you smell good. No no, don't run, this is my stop, I'm leaving you alone, I promise, goodbye. I just wanted to tell you."
--A guy, late twenties, to a girl about 5 years younger than him, sitting next to him on BART

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Now admittedly, I would have been a little unsettled too, but if you think about it, what a compliment-- how often do you sit next to someone on the subway and think "Wow, that person really smells... GOOD?"

"Yeah, but sometimes don't you just feel like saying, 'NO! I don't want to wear orange eyeshadow?'"
"No, because if I did, I'd never work again. Plus, I saw a picture of Giselle wearing it once, and it looked alright. And she was on a magazine cover."
--Two abnormally tall, thin girls in Sephora, a cosmetics and fragrance store

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Can I express how badly I wanted to be that girl's mother for just 30 seconds, so I could say "If Giselle was going to jump off a bridge..."

"Listen, you say that Britney Spears is crap, and I say that Limp Bizkit is crap. Let's just agree that we'll never agree, because really we can't BOTH be right."
--One guy to another, walking past me on Durant Ave.

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And I think to myself "Oh yes boys, yes you CAN both be right..."

"I don't know, I just get like this sometimes."
"Ok... you know, there is the market around the corner."
*pause*
"If you buy, I'll get drunk."
"Well... ok. *sighs* Do you ever feel like our sex life is headed downhill?"
--A girl and a guy at the gate of the building next door to mine