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1 " So what do you like about New York so much? That you would venture all the way here and not tell anyone?”“Two boys were dancing together in a club,” I want to say, “and nobody stopped them. "
― Tim Federle , Better Nate Than Ever (Better Nate Than Ever, #1)
2 " So what do you like about New York so much? That you would venture all the way here and not tell anyone?”“Two boys were dancing together in a club,” I want to say, “and nobody stopped them.” But instead I say, “I want to be on Broadway, and you can't do that forty-five minutes outside of Pittsburgh. "
3 " Holy Dance of the Vampires, no! Dance of the Vampires!' (Instead of cursing, we shout out the titles of legendary Broadway flops. "
4 " Because there's only two ways to treat a door in scene: Slam it shut or fling it open. The rest is amateur. "
5 " Oh my God,” I say. Holy Cats! (Cats wasn't technically a flop, but Libby says it was, artistically, so it's on our list of alternate swears.) "
6 " If you've never been tucked into a futon, you don't know what you're missing.You're missing nothing, I meant. "
7 " Even when you yourself have gotten used to being harassed, there is still nothing worse than the feeling of your family being mortified for you. You never adapt to that. "
8 " Mr. Garret Charles looks as if he eats children for lunch and washes them down with the blood of their favorite pet. "
9 " (shout-out to Mr. Reese: love your Pieces, sir), "
10 " I think Dad was just too cheap to afford a divorce, so he splurged on a fancy hotel, someplace that probably has terry-cloth robes and heart-shaped good-night chocolates. Someplace parents like mine will renew their vows and think life can always fell this refreshed, from this anniversary night forward. "
11 " She winks. No adult has ever winked at me, other than the science teacher in elementary school who had the neurological condition. "
12 " I need to figure out how to deliver stuff like "we're a crummy family that ain't worth loving" like a boy. And not a cowboy. "
13 " Yeah," Freckles says, "we did a production of Midsummer in Cleveland three years ago. And she was luminous."Beautiful word if I knew what the heck it meant. "
14 " In my mind, Kristen Chenoweth will be waiting for us on a staircase at this Port Authority place, probably singing the theme to ‘New York, New York.’ And then someone’ll hand out handguns and cans of Mace and tell us, ‘Good luck, and have the time of your life if you can keep it.’” (29) "
15 " On us, it ended up sounding like a lesbian rock ballad. But still. "
16 " Technically just the last three years, but who cares about anything other than Count Chocula when you’re under ten? "
17 " It turns out that custard can taste really, really depressing when you're not in the mood for it. "
18 " Nobody ever talks about how good it can feel to look right at the sun, probably because it's so dangerous to. But it's a fact: If you look right into the sun, you cannot feel scared or happy or anything. It puts you directly into a neutral state. True. "
19 " I'd think in New York the ghost would be ghostier and the witches witchier. "
20 " Jankburg. And "