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The idea is that you don’t speak the same way with your friends (California English Casual) that you do with a teacher (California English Formal), or a girl (California English Singsong), or your immigrant parents (California English Exasperated). You change how you talk to best adapt to whoever you’re talking to. But it’s not just about adaptation, as Ms. Chit explained. People can code switch to confuse others, express dominance or submission, or disguise themselves.
Let me tell you something. I live to make people laugh. Parents, siblings, friends, lovers, doesn’t matter. I just have to. If you for some reason don’t know how to make someone laugh, then learn. Study that shit like it’s the SAT. If you are so unfortunate as to have no one in your life who can make you laugh, drop everything and find someone. Cross the desert if you must. Because laughter isn’t just about the funny. Laughter is the music of the deep cosmos connecting all human beings that says all the things mere words cannot.
“Wait,” I say. “You know I’m like a month older than you, right?” “And I’m three seconds older, because—” says Q. “Stop,” says Q’s mom.
Q is funny
She’s a book I just started reading, and I need to know where the story goes.
“Humanity’s greatest strength—and also the reason for its ultimate downfall—is its ability to normalize even the bizarre.”
True ·_·
“Anyway,” says Mom. “Dress is pretty.” I glance up at Brit. Mom thinks your dress is pretty, I want to yell.
Is this a good sign??
As a member of the majority, she belongs everywhere. As the product of a long, mixed-up heritage, she belongs nowhere.
Brit gives me a sly smirk. I frown and arch an eyebrow, impressed. Who studies vocab the night before a date? A nerd. A beautiful nerd.
People who let themselves learn new things are the best kind of people.
Because love is more terrifying than anything. Love is a mighty blue hand coming straight for you out of the sky. All you can do is surrender yourself and pray you don’t fall to your death.
also an appreciate-what-you-have-before-it-turns-into-what-you-had story.
Nothing is just any one single thing. In fact, what starts out as one thing can turn out to be something completely different.
