There are only two energies at the core of the human experience: love and fear. Love grants freedom, fear takes it away. Love invites full expression, fear punishes it. Love invites you always, to break the bonds of ignorance.
Walsch

This world is crazy. You want to hear a crazy story?
Istanbul’s most mysterious man, who we met and who treated me/Nath/Marc to Turkish coffee and hookah during our layover.

This pair of spandex is gonna smell so bad by the end of this trip.
Traveling ultra light with two best friends for two weeks in Europe

Horsing around at the observatory

PERSON A: hay!! Is this stable?
PERSON B: neigh.

It couldn’t have gone any differently than how it did. Which sounds obvious because that’s what happened.
Best friend from home

Even if you plan for great things, the perfect things are what end up happening at the exact moment they’re supposed to happen. Except all the genocides in world history. Those were unnecessary.
A good soul I can always count on

conversing amidst a clanking of ceramic kitchenware

PERSON 1: I really wish I wasn't allergic.
PERSON 2: WHAT?!
PERSON 1: ...what?
PERSON 2: Wait WHAT did you just say??
PERSON 1: Wait, what's going on? What just happened?
PERSON 2: No, what did you just say?!
PERSON 1: I said I really wish I wasn't allergic! Then I could have normal cow milk too!
PERSON 2: Oooooh. Okay. Cool.
PERSON 1: What happened just now?
PERSON 2: Huh? Oh, I definitely thought you said "I really wish I was still a virgin."
PERSON 1: Whoa. Oh did I not tell you I've decided to become a nun? A gay nun.
PERSON 2: And convert the whole convent...
PERSON 1: ...Touche.
PERSON 2: that's not really how you use "touché" but I'm done ragging on the weird things you say for today.
PERSON 1: Ok but I didn't say the thing you thought I said just now remember?
PERSON 2: oh that's right! You're allergic to cow milk.

according to US Weekly

PERSON 1: So at work, the editors are having problems cutting a reel for [famous actor] for the award she's receiving on Thursday. Because she's being very picky and particular about what footage goes in the reel, and it's frustrating everybody.
PERSON 2: Really? I heard she's down to earth, I mean according to US Weekly she's just like us!

fish monger

FRIEND'S YOUNGER SISTER: Anyways, I've been wondering, what IS a fish monger exactly?
FRIEND'S DAD: Exactly that.

When you were little you had some imaginary friends that you’d talk to in the evenings… And you never introduced me to them!
My Mom