Claire: Your kids don’t need to know who you were before you had them. They need to know who you wish you were and they need to try to live up to that person. They’re gonna fall short but better they fall short of the fake you, than the real you.
Phil: Which is why we don’t hide anything.
Claire: That is the opposite of what I just said.
Phil: I was not listening.

Claire: “Luke, I told you to put that down. Now. Come on, buddy.”
Luke: “One second. I’m about to beat dad’s record.”
Phil: “You heard your mother.”

SIX FAVOURITE SCREENCAPS
Modern Family 2x06 Halloween (asked by bran-starks)

SIX FAVOURITE SCREENCAPS
Modern Family 1x09 Fizbo (asked by teapartiesontheceiling)

JAY: And here we have a phone in the shape of a mouth.
GLORIA: Ahh, you’re welcome! Very sexy!
JAY: Wait a minute, don’t tell me. Let me work this out. I’ve mentioned a few times that I was thinking of taking up the saxophone. You give me this… I’ve got it! Is this a sexy phone!?
GLORIA: HAPPY BIRTHDAY!Modern Family, 2.24 The One That Got Away.

Jay: These pants are new. Climbing over that fence I might have rectum.