Don't Read Too Much Into Wednesday One-Liners

Teenager: Dude, my sister is always stealing her friends' books, but like, sometimes no one has the book she wants, how much easier would it be if there was like, a Blockbuster, but for books.

--Blockbuster

Girlfriend to boyfriend: Did you bring something to read on the train? I'm trying to decide if I want to talk to you, sleep, or read my book.

--A Train

Overheard by: The Green Cat

Teenage girl: I need Romeo and Juliet. But do you have any with, like, the English on one side and Shakespeare on the other?

--Barnes & Noble, Union Square

Spoiled colleg girl to friend: My mom really wants me to get a nice big tote because she's really worried about how I'm going to carry all my books. But I'm, like, worried if I'm even going to read my books.

--Outside Bloomingdale's Dressing Room

Chick: So they called him up on stage, and they were like: "We want to bestow this honor upon you." And he was like: "It is indeed an honor, an honor indeed." And I'm all like: "Come on, like, I mean, seriously, like, who talks like that? Can't you take it down a notch! Don't you read US Weekly or anything?

--Starbucks, Woolworth Building

NYU girl to male friend: There's almost something poetic about it, you know? Like, the 20-year-old Catholic virgin from Connecticut losing it to the older Ecuadorian lothario? Hell, I should just write a book about my life.

--NYU Dining Hall