The Frame-Up Quotes

“My name is Inigo Montoya, and I’ve just found the six-fingered man.”
― Meghan Scott Molin, The Frame-Up

“He opens the passenger door of a white Toyota Prius and helps me inside. First herbal tea, now this. If it were possible for this guy to be getting less and less my type, he’s doing it in a hurry. Worse than a Muggle, he’s a vanilla Muggle. An herbal-tea-drinking, Prius-driving, vanilla Muggle policeman with gorgeous eyes. I guess we all have our redeeming qualities.”
― Meghan Scott Molin, The Frame-Up

“In gaming terms, we are going to Leeroy Jenkins the shit out of this bitch,”
― Meghan Scott Molin, The Frame-Up

“I’m not the most neat and tidy of women. I cultivate the “creative chaos” style of housekeeping.”
― Meghan Scott Molin, The Frame-Up

“It’s everything I don’t want in a relationship. I want depth, breadth. I want messy and colorful. I want sitting on a couch and watching Star Wars, not sitting at a fancy dinner with sixteen forks.”
― Meghan Scott Molin, The Frame-Up

“What does the hero say now? Oh yes. ‘As you wish.”
― Meghan Scott Molin, The Frame-Up

“Here I am with a gorgeous Muggle, and the world still has magic in it. The Princess Bride is on TV, and there is a masked vigilante still out there in the world if things get too crazy. The universe is just about perfect.”
― Meghan Scott Molin, The Frame-Up

“No way out but through. Sometimes you just have to go into the fight and throw a lot of elbows.”
― Meghan Scott Molin, The Frame-Up

“life-size pink Wookiees,”
― Meghan Scott Molin, The Frame-Up

“Captain America tee—whom L insists is a closet queen because, girl, have you seen his hair?—”
― Meghan Scott Molin, The Frame-Up

“And sometimes all it takes to make your day is seeing your jerk of a boss in an interrogation room at the police department.”
― Meghan Scott Molin, The Frame-Up

“Sword fighting is hard. And we do other stuff too. We’re learning to write with quill and ink, illuminations, stuff like that. There are guilds and crafts, and it’s all very historically accurate. Scientific, even.”
― Meghan Scott Molin, The Frame-Up

“I’ve seen these movies at least twenty times, and I’m used to making snarky comments and pointing out filming errors. I haven’t watched Star Wars without a liberal dose of cynicism since I was ten years old. But something funny begins to happen when we start A New Hope. The words scrawl across the screen, and Matteo reads them out loud, and a shiver runs down my spine. This whole universe is about to be opened up to him, and I’m the one who gets to introduce him to the marvels of the Millennium Falcon. And R2-D2. And I’m seriously hoping this is the old cut with the non-remastered Jabba. I realize I’m giddy. It feels magical.”
― Meghan Scott Molin, The Frame-Up

“Downstairs will be a mix of Settlers of Catan tournament”
― Meghan Scott Molin, The Frame-Up

“Dreams have to match up. Or at least be compatible side by side.”
― Meghan Scott Molin, The Frame-Up

“But no Netflix. That seems extreme.”
― Meghan Scott Molin, The Frame-Up

“Usually I am repelled by the thought of dating an adult.”
― Meghan Scott Molin, The Frame-Up

“You don’t have Wi-Fi.” Beyond judgment, I’m in the horror zone.”
― Meghan Scott Molin, The Frame-Up

“Dating a non-geek means they might want to normal-fy me. I am terrified of someone constantly telling me my shows or comics are dumb, wishing I’d “tone down my hair a bit,”
― Meghan Scott Molin, The Frame-Up

“So you’re saying that you’re a comic book writer, have purple hair and a million inside jokes from movies and books I’ve never seen or read, and that your dog was a plain ol’ box for Halloween?” “I thought it was funny.”
― Meghan Scott Molin, The Frame-Up

“This year he’s going to be the demo-corgan from Stranger Things . . .”
― Meghan Scott Molin, The Frame-Up

“The white duvet is peppered with the copper-and-white hairs that incessantly fall from my dog, and when he lies down, a cloud of them fly into the air.”
― Meghan Scott Molin, The Frame-Up

“My reputation is burning up and crashing to the surface like the USS Enterprise on Veridian III.”
― Meghan Scott Molin, The Frame-Up

“Trogdor would basically show anyone who broke in where the electronics were kept, as long as they had food. Traitorous fluff-butt.”
― Meghan Scott Molin, The Frame-Up

“In the comic, the guys are tied together with jesses—those are the leather thongs used to secure a falcon—”
― Meghan Scott Molin, The Frame-Up

“hot flash of shame fills my face with what I assume is bright red to match my glasses.”
― Meghan Scott Molin, The Frame-Up

“I’d colored my hair a bright pink, the most shocking color I could imagine for my mother, to signify my dedication to being nontraditional and never looked back.”
― Meghan Scott Molin, The Frame-Up

“Usually people say that to mean that I’m too much—too colorful, too passionate, too smart, too dramatic, too sarcastic. It’s what people say when they don’t know how to categorize me, as if I should just fit into the social box of a woman who wants a picket fence and two kids, just like my mom.”
― Meghan Scott Molin, The Frame-Up

“his Wonder Bread corgi butt”
― Meghan Scott Molin, The Frame-Up

“Trogdor yaps like mad,”
― Meghan Scott Molin, The Frame-Up