In 2008, shortly after she began talking, Steve and I started capturing Ruby’s funny quotes in a Twitter account (@areyoubewhy if you’d like to follow it). Here are the tweets from 2013 – all are her exact words.
| Can you send a note to the past? No? Well then I assign you to try! | 1/9/2013 |
| Know what’s my favorite part of the whole universe? Space! It’s so interesting. | 1/27/2013 |
| I like cash… It’s fun to do math with. | 2/6/2013 |
| Papa, stop looking mischievous! | 2/16/2013 |
| I’m NOT hungry like the wolf. I’m the opposite of that. | 2/24/2013 |
| I have five hearts, four for holding love and one for pumping blood. And I have one more besides, just for fun. | 3/9/2013 |
| I’m going on a fart walk. | 3/20/2013 |
| People from fierce tribes do not need a snuggle. | 4/9/2013 |
| Speaking of brunch: people in Portland eat a LOT of brunch. | 4/20/2013 |
| No one argues with THIS side of the sponge. Nobody dares pick a fight with the scrubby side. | 4/22/2013 |
| Anarchy is like trying to weave threads without a loom. | 5/1/2013 |
| Sicko peppeea bruh! | 5/1/2013 |
| I’d love to have a map of where poor people live and go on a scavenger hunt and give them money! | 5/16/2013 |
| My favorite is Jar-Jar. He’s so funny! The way he SPEAKS! | 6/2/2013 |
| It’s the code to my secret laboratory / love-related storage room. | 9/21/2013 |
| Here are my favorite things: death, evil, and reading. | 10/19/2013 |
| Where should I put the dried-up science? | 10/20/2013 |
| I can’t go downstairs right now. It smells like yucky science. | 10/20/2013 |
| My top 3 weirdest stories are: sick at Christmas, when I broke my arm, and when I couldn’t fall asleep until midnight. | 10/20/2013 |
| I want to make cancer history! [after hearing a sponsor message on NPR] | 10/30/2013 |
| Nothing is as beautiful as death. | 11/3/2013 |
| She’s very tricky. Just like me. | 11/12/2013 |
| No. My lucky number is zero. | 11/15/2013 |
| When I grow up I want to be a robot programmer, and also design fuels for them. | 11/20/2013 |
| Papa, I have a gross secret: I like to smell my own farts. | 11/28/2013 |