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      Rory and Lorelai Gilmore
If CocoaJava had a physical location, it would be Star's Hollow, the home town of Lorelai and Rory Gilmore. To narrow the field even more, let's zero in on Luke's Diner in Star's Hollow, where much of the action, and massive amounts of coffee are produced each week. If you are unfamiliar with the Gilmore Girls, perhaps this glimpse into their coffee-obsessed days will help you to understand. If you are already acquainted with the girls, you'll enjoy recalling these classic coffee conversations!
  

Now, onward with the girls caffeinated wit and wisdom...

Noteable Quotes!

Season One - Season Two - Season Three

Season Four - Season Five

Bonus! Chocolate Quotes - All Seasons


Own The Series - Season Three on DVD

Bonus! Read about the Bangles appearance on the Gilmore Girls (scroll down the page until you see the very cute picture of the Gilmore Girls with the band.)


Alexis Bledel, who portrays Rory Gilmore starred in the WB movie The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. To celebrate this, we held a contest! CocoaJava readers submitted essays on this topic: "How do you stay close to your friends when distance comes between you?"

Here are the winning essays.

FIRST PLACE WINNER - Jenny Shen

My best friend and I met in 7th grade. The first time we saw each other was a moment neither of us will ever forget: we both hated each other. She had just moved to Ames and I had lived there my whole life.

In a grade where the importance of popularity rules, the plain old truth was that I was too caught up with being in the "in" crowd to pay any attention to someone who wasn't. On the other hand, she was someone who was too into being against the cookie-cutter norm to like anyone who was in the "in" crowd. During the year we spent a lot of time in yearbook meetings together and eventually we had a mutual respect for each other. In time I grew out of trying to be cool and we started hanging out. Her parents were very strict so we didn't actually get to do things together very often (they only allowed her to go to one movie and sleepover a year). This led us to spend hundreds of hours on the phone. We talked about anything and everything, but more than that, we were able to have long silences without feeling awkward and wanting to get off the phone. Right from the start she just got me. She was there every step of the way for everything. We are not the same person; we could never finish each other's sentences. However, we know how the other is feeling, and when something is wrong we will talk about it until we figure out what to do about the situation. After three years of being friends, by 9th grade, we had come to depend on each other.

Then in 9th grade, at a rare sleepover that we were allowed, she started crying. She said that she was moving to Chicago at the beginning of summer. For the rest of the semester we were both in denial. We talked about ways to make her parents realize that she couldn't move and we thought very seriously about all the ways she could spite her parents for making her move. The last day of school a group of us went out to eat, and near the end of the meal her mother came into the restaurant and pulled her out. She said that they were leaving right then. We were all in shock. We both cried as she hugged me goodbye one last time and glared at her mother. That night a couple of us had a sleepover in her honor and one of our close friends remarked, "It's like she never existed or died, because we'll probably never see her again." I worried about that remark, because I thought that was a horrible thing to say, as well as the fact that I didn't want to forget our friendship. Indeed though, her parents had never made any promises of visits back or anything else of that nature.

However, she and I kept in touch through snail mail, email, and phone calls. I had a few best friends before who had moved away and although we still talk to each other, it's infrequent and I could not tell anyone how they are doing or who they are dating. I thought that our friendship would probably dwindle down to that.

However, we made it our mission to call each other every single day. We talked about how our day went and described it in vivid detail so that we felt like we had actually spent the day with each other. I lived in Ames, IA and she lived in Naperville, IL, a little over 350 miles. We led completely separate lives and hadn't really met each other's new friends. However, her friends were always on a first name basis with me, and mine her. We had incorporated each other into our lives even though we were over 350 miles apart. We didn't see each other for nearly three years, but that was okay because we had our daily telephone conversations where we'd talk until both our cell phone batteries died. We both recently graduated from high school and she was allowed to come back for my graduation party. This was especially exciting for us because not only were we celebrating an ending, but we were also celebrating a beginning.

We are both attending New York University next year and we plan to be roommates. When I came across this contest, I decided to enter it because she is obsessed with Alexis Bledel and the "Pants" movie as she calls it (she is also obsessed with Gilmore Girls, I believe she has almost all episodes memorized). Last night, as we talked on the phone, the mention of posters to bring to college came up and I thought she might like a movie poster of the "Pants" movie. She's always been there for me, so I can't help but try to be there for her.


SECOND PLACE WINNER- Jodye Whitesell

Let's see, how do I stay close to my friends while they are far away? To answer this question, I am going to turn to my most prized possession: a t-shirt. At the end of the school year, my friends and I all got t-shirts and wrote "School's Out For Summer" on them and then we all signed each other's and went our separate ways. I take that shirt with me everywhere. Whenever I am sad or lonely and am missing my friends, I simply put my shirt on and I feel like they are all there with me, surrounding me and keeping me warm and comfy. This way, no matter where we are and who we are with, we will always have our best friends there with us. As far as staying in touch, we always e-mail or call one another. Every time I open my inbox there’s an e-mail from a and it never fails to puts a smile on my face. The bonds I have developed with my friends help me to stay close to them even when we are so far apart. But, the shirt is the true way I stick with 'em.


THIRD PLACE WINNER- Joan Regen

Claudine and Jennifer lived on different continents.

They met when Claudine came to stay with Jennifer’s family in Staten Island as part of an exchange program in her junior year of high school.

Claudine loved sleeping in the guest room of a big house.

In her family’s apartment outside of Paris, she shared one with a twenty-year-old sister majoring in husband hunting and a five year old who couldn’t keep out of everyone’s business.

During the summer the two girls shared together, Claudine introduced Jennifer to the opera, Paris fashions, and Balzac. Jennifer introduced Claudine to the cultural and literary delights of the Big Apple.

They learned a lot about each other in a short period of time.

When the summer drew to a close, Jennifer pressed a locket into Claudine’s hand and told her to read the inscription on the flight home.

After a teary-eyed departure at the airport, Claudine settled into her seat and opened the locket.

If you have as much faith in our friendship as I do, I’ll never be far away.

 

Gilmore Girls
On The Web


Pour yourself a refill and pay a visit to these sites!

Gilmore Girls Galore

Review from PopMatters

WB's Official Site

Gilmore Girls TV Listings, Episode Guide, Photos, Message Board, Cast and More at TVGuide.com.

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