#heat

Nobody got me out," Nellie replied. "They just let me go. They think I'm a deranged Jonah Wizard fan. Apparently, the hotel's full of them. A couple of idiots actually jumped off the front balcony. Can you picture that?" "In Technicolor," Amy said bitterly. "That low-down KGB reject!" Dan fumed. "I can't believe she cheated me–right when I was in the middle of cheating her! ↗

— Gordon Korman

#humor #jonah-wizard #nellie-gomez #the #humor

livid, adj. Fuck You for cheating on me. Fuck you for reducing it to the word cheating. As if this were a card game, and you sneaked a look at my hand. Who came up with the term cheating, anyway? A cheater, I imagine. Someone who thought liar was too harsh. Someone who thought devastator was too emotional. The same person who thought, oops, he’d gotten caught with his hand in the cookie jar. Fuck you. This isn’t about slipping yourself an extra twenty dollars of Monopoly money. These are our lives. You went and broke our lives. You are so much worse than a cheater. You killed something. And you killed it when its back was turned. ↗

— David Levithan

#hate #infidelity #love #imagination

Why can't you just lie and cheat like the others?" Dan snapped. "Can't you just see that's better than being nice one minute and then turning around and selling us out? It may be very Cahill, but it stinks! Grace had a saying: Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, I'll conk you with this pet carrier! ↗

— Gordon Korman

#cheating

The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that... and all the glory of it. ↗

— John Adams

#away #considered #declaration #effect #glory

It's like Branson. When I went to Branson there was only 4 acts in there. Now, you can't count 'em. There's so many theatres now, that only the strong will survive. ↗

— Mickey Gilley

#count #i #like #many #now

Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from The Eternal. ↗

— Dante Alighieri

#cannot #eternal #fire #heat #separated

Each of us has been put on earth with the ability to do something well. We cheat ourselves and the world if we don't use that ability as best we can. ↗

— George Allen, Sr.

#been #best #cheat #each #earth

I loved living and breathing theatre so much that I decided I had to find a way to bring my desire to act and my ability to support myself together. I'd run through the possibilities in Washington, so that meant moving to New York. ↗

— Karen Allen

#act #breathing #bring #decided #desire

A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it. ↗

— Alfred Hitchcock

#admission #babysitter #dinner #film #good

I've always loved musical theater. It's a bit of a family tradition. ↗

— Trey Anastasio

#bit #family #family tradition #i #loved