You better believe I'm loving The Importance of Being Earnest, just like everybody told me I would. Here are my favourite quotes so far:

MISS PRISM: You must put away your diary, Cecily. I really don't see why you should keep a diary at all.
CECILY: I keep a diary in order to enter the wonderful secrets of my life. If I didn't write them down I should probably forget all about them.

ALGERNON: Oh! I am not really wicked at all, Cousin Cecily. You mustn't think that I am wicked.
CECILY: If you are not, then you have certainly been deceiving us all in a very inexcusable manner. I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.
ALGERNON: (looks at her in amazement) Oh! Of course I have been rather reckless.
CECILY: I am glad to hear it.
ALGERNON: In fact, now you mention the subject, I have been very bad in my own small way.
CECILY: I don't think you should be so proud of that, though I am sure it must have been very pleasant.
ALGERNON: It is much pleasanter being here with you.
CECILY: I can't understand how you are here at all. Uncle Jack won't be back till Monday afternoon.
ALGERNON: That is a great disappointment. I am obliged to go up by the first train on Monday morning. I have a business appointment that I am anxious...to miss?
CECILY: Couldn't you miss it anywhere but in London?
ALGERNON: No: the appointment is in London.


I should be reading it or sleeping or doing any number of things to keep me from being inconvenienced and unprepared and annoyed tomorrow. I'm excited though, 'cause Jon is going to be here in a couple of hours. We can go to Taco Bell, then Sus can make a fuss over him, then he and I can discuss the things that live under my stove.