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1 " think Cool Girl could ever really like me. "
― James Patterson , I Even Funnier (I Funny, #2)
2 " third or fourth. "
3 " A BURGER AND FRIES FIXES EVERYTHING "
4 " Oh, hello, Mr. and Mrs. Buttington. Fanny has told me so much about you. "
5 " If there "
6 " my forehead and armpits are spritzing like a berserk watering can cursed by an angry garden gnome. I roll out to center stage and fiddle with the microphone, "
7 " this way whenever she has one of her “amazingly awesome” ideas. “We’ll stage it in the hallway. We can borrow that cordless microphone from the chorus room. Pierce can rig it up to an amplifier. That’s all you need, right?” “Well, sometimes there’s a spotlight.…” “The drama club adviser is a pal. She’ll let us borrow it. We’re good to go.” “Mrs. Kressin? Seriously?” “Totally. You have your material ready to rock, right?” “Pretty much,” I say. “I was ninety percent locked down the day before Uncle Frankie had his heart attack.” “Well, you have all day to polish your routine. Showtime isn’t until five minutes after the final bell. "
8 " To err is human, to forgive is divine. "
9 " monkey "
10 " I guess. But not in the, uh, traditional way. "
11 " many people are surprised to hear that there are comedians in Russia, but they are there. They’re dead, but they’re there. "
12 " no dream comes true unless you wake up and go to work. "
13 " REALITY… Sometimes people in my dreams say crazy dumb stuff because they forget I’m in a wheelchair. Hey, I don’t blame ’em. I’d like to forget it, too. But I can’t. Of course, I keep hoping that one day I’ll see a commercial for a new wonder drug called something like Spinulax that will magically make me walk again. Unfortunately, it would probably come with a list of gross side effects like all those other pills they advertise on TV: “Spinulax may cause constipation and diarrhea. Not to mention projectile vomiting. And sudden death syndrome—as in, oops, sorry, you’re dead. "