Since it's been a while...

Y'all thought Barrys (and former Barrys) stopped being funny... well, we didn't! We're still hilarious.

(Quotes gathered by Lucy and Sarah, chiefly). 

Sarah: "Mast, are you and Lucy two years apart or a year and a half?"
Mastin: "A year and a half."
Lucy: "... It's a long half!"

"Shepherd, your milkshakes are impeccable! Except when they are... peccable." -Mastin

Lucy: "That lightning was intense... it could be a planet falling into the atmosphere."
Sarah: "Well, it better not hit me." 

"Between your smell and this situation, all I'm getting is dog food." -Sarah

Aunt Rebecca: "I'm sorry for thinking you were being a turkey!"
Uncle Michael: "That seems to be my current status: turkey until proven otherwise."

Kate: "If Reecie and Margaret come to visit us in Congo, we'll have to do construction on our house!"
Lucy: "Yeah, just slap on some more mud."

"People get their main education from soap operas. They get a link in their email that takes them to a website, their jaws drop, and before you know it they're out there holding a sign!" -Uncle Peter

"There's a bottle of wine on the top shelf, but drink the John Barrys' wine first." -Uncle Michael

Sarah: "Iain, what kind of music do you like?"
Iain (Wilson): "I like funk music."
Sarah: "Why?"
Iain: "Because it's funky."

"I feel like I have a shoulder angel, because there's always this Hudson in my head telling me, 'This is what you do in this situation'." - Margaret (Wilkes) Barry

"What IS the true function of a 'low setting'? In what universe is that ever actually a thing? Yes, I'd like to take 3 hours to blow-dry my hair, please." -Sarah

Faith: "Esther and I are visiting Kate in Congo, and then Mother and Abby will visit later."
Sarah: "It's about time y'all made yourselves a t-shirt: 'Just another white girl in Africa'!" 

"Whenever I need perspective, I just think of Father telling me: 'Nobody cares about your trip to Rwanda!'" -Esther

"I used to think that Wes Callihan was a place." -Truman

"Mom, if I was Asian... would I be as smart as Lucy?" -Truman

Margo: "Father, there's one Oreo left if you want it."
Uncle John: "If I don't want it, will it cease to exist?"
Margo: "Yes sir, because as soon as you stop wanting it, it will disappear!"

Hannah: "You guys should pray that Lauren feels better and no one else gets sick."
Anna (Peter Barry): "Well... actually, it would be kinda nice to have to stay longer..."


Some quotes from Hannah's Bible Survey class...


"I'm gonna make Jacob Amish... any objections?" -Mastin

"Embalming means your body gets cleansed with nice odors." -Silas

Hannah: "Why didn't Esau get food from someone else? Why'd he have to sell his birthright?"
Truman: "Maybe Jacob makes good soup..."

"Moses is like, 'Be sanctified all ye knaves!' and throws the blood and they're all like, 'So gross, but sooo cool.'" -Mastin


And a few more randoms... 


"If I had a million dollars, I'd buy a computer and two packs of Mintos." -Truman

Peter: "I don't know what to do with my life..."
Hannah: "Just follow in my footsteps!"
James: "... Study Russian, and then go to Africa?"

"I like warm caffeine in my drinks!" -Truman

"You have an exam tomorrow, I trow? Hence you are shredding cardboard." -Hannah (to Kate)

Uncle Michael: "If there's airplane trouble and we don't come back, then you'll be in the orphanage business. If there isn't airplane trouble and we don't come back... we'll send you a postcard from Paraguay." 
Abi: "There are Pashtuns in Paraguay!"

Aunt Rebecca: "We'll have enough for two cinnamon rolls each."
Lucy: "Unless the mice show up..."
Peter: "Are 'the mice' the John Barrys?"

"Isn't it just the worst to be anointed by an oil that you just can't wait to wash off?" -Mrs. Blackburn

Hannah: "My life story would be a romantic comedy."
Lucy: "Mine would be an adventure novel."
Beck: "Mine would be a Bollywood movie."
Aunt Rebecca: "Mine would be a musical."
Mastin: "And mine would be an animal documentary!"

Lucy: "I'm reading Louis L'Amour!"
Sarah: "On a scale of one-to-Esther, how would you rate your obsession?"

Lucy: "You know, there are people who make up all these jokes about how big families had lots of kids just so that they could make up all their own sports teams." 
Sarah: "Well, as the Lord spake unto the homeschoolers: fill the earth and subdue it!"