Better Nate Than Ever Quotes

“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

“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.”
― Tim Federle, Better Nate Than Ever

“Holy Dance of the Vampires, no! Dance of the Vampires!' (Instead of cursing, we shout out the titles of legendary Broadway flops.”
― Tim Federle, Better Nate Than Ever

“Because there's only two ways to treat a door in scene: Slam it shut or fling it open. The rest is amateur.”
― Tim Federle, Better Nate Than Ever

“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.)”
― Tim Federle, Better Nate Than Ever

“If you've never been tucked into a futon, you don't know what you're missing.
You're missing nothing, I meant.”
― Tim Federle, Better Nate Than Ever

“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.”
― Tim Federle, Better Nate Than Ever

“(shout-out to Mr. Reese: love your Pieces, sir),”
― Tim Federle, Better Nate Than Ever

“Mr. Garret Charles looks as if he eats children for lunch and washes them down with the blood of their favorite pet.”
― Tim Federle, Better Nate Than Ever

“Technically just the last three years, but who cares about anything other than Count Chocula when you’re under ten?”
― Tim Federle, Better Nate Than Ever

“On us, it ended up sounding like a lesbian rock ballad. But still.”
― Tim Federle, Better Nate Than Ever

“Jankburg. And”
― Tim Federle, Better Nate Than Ever

“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)”
― Tim Federle, Better Nate Than Ever

“I'd think in New York the ghost would be ghostier and the witches witchier.”
― Tim Federle, Better Nate Than Ever

“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.”
― Tim Federle, Better Nate Than Ever

“It turns out that custard can taste really, really depressing when you're not in the mood for it.”
― Tim Federle, Better Nate Than Ever

“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.”
― Tim Federle, Better Nate Than Ever

“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.”
― Tim Federle, Better Nate Than Ever

“She winks. No adult has ever winked at me, other than the science teacher in elementary school who had the neurological condition.”
― Tim Federle, Better Nate Than Ever

“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.”
― Tim Federle, Better Nate Than Ever