Evolution of a friendship: The Quote Book March 7, 2008 ~ 11:53 am
Posted by Julie in : Uncategorized , trackbackFor the first two years I lived in New York City, I was too busy to breathe. I was going to grad school full-time, working part-time, doing productions, and then interning on top of everything else. I was also young, so when all of my coursework was done and I had time to breathe again (even though my thesis wasn’t done), I realized that hey! I was in New York City! And hey! I was young! And hey! Shouldn’t I take advantage of those two things? Yes, yes I should. And I did.
Through the theater I had interned at, I met a bunch of people in their twenties that I really gelled with. Two playwrights (Ryan and Cory) and two actresses (Amanda and Lori - yes, that Lori). And after Monday night readings at the theater, and often during the weekends, we’d all go out to a couple of our favorite local bars and hang out for hours, drinking, talking, karaoke-ing (if we were at Mr. Bigg’s) - you know, what young people do if they’re not into the club scene. Invariably someone would come out with at least one really good comment in the course of a night because we were creative people, dammit, and creative people come up with good lines. Finally one night one of us pulled over a napkin and a pen and said “I’m writing that down! That was awesome!” (I can’t remember who the genius was who did this, because as I said, we were in our twenties and there were copious amounts of alcohol involved. These were also the days of my peripatetic lifestyle where I would throw an extra set of clothes in my backpack in the morning and end up crashed on Lori’s couch overnight rather than take the train back to Brooklyn.)
That night, we bought the cheapest small notebook we could find, and the quote book was born. By the looks of it, it lasted about six months to a year, and ended about the time I started dating Rick, because towards the end there are several quotes by him. I blame Lori for losing it. But she found it in a recent cleaning binge and it has been revived. Unfortunately, we only ever wrote down the initials of the person being quoted, and some of those people have been lost to posterity because we can’t remember who the hell CM was…wait! I just remembered who that is! Another mystery solved.
Some of the better/less cryptic quotes:
“It’s all good and well until you end up at Gristedes at three in the morning clutching a box of Crunch n’ Munch.” -Ryan
“You walk too fast, you spilled this all over my shirt, and there’s no train here. What is wrong with you?” - Julie to Lori
“In four or five years you will be so hot, but right now I look at you and see little sister.” - Ryan to Julie (note: it’s been six years, so I must be “so hot” by now.)
“I’m not a scientist. I cannot tell you the exact way that it is done, but it’s different than if I were to stab you in the neck twelve times.” - Kenny from Crazy Fantasy Tattoos
“I woke up with one boner of a hangover.” - Eugene
(really loudly) “Oh, Ryan made another fuckin’ joke - just put it in the fuckin’ quote book!!” - Cory (note: it’s true, Ryan and I have the lion’s share of quotes in this book)
“It’s like sacrificing a virgin to the minotaur.” - Julie on setting up a man we know with a younger woman
Lori: “You’re like a little grandma with the knitting.”
Julie: “I made you a frikkin’ MONKEY for your birthday. Grandmas don’t make monkeys. And I will be making you something for Christmas as well. Just not socks. Unless you piss me off, then I’m giving you a penny.”
Comments
ahahahahaha!!!!! Thanks for posting about the quote book. And I have to say, the second quote (first one by you) sounds a lot like something I would say.
I think you should revive the quote book.
Grace~Oh, we have. Lori is digging through her email archive and finding gems like the last quote (which I think was said in September) to add to it.
As previously noted, you are indeed SOOOOO HAAWWWTTTT.
Ah to be young again. Or able to stay up past 10 pm.
I’m scared to ask what the 4th one is about!
I like sacrificing the virgin to the minotaur. I used to keep a quote book or a poetry book… lost, all lost, gone forever. So glad Lori found it.
Vince~I think the ability to stay up past 10 PM returns as your children get older. Don’t quote me on this, though.
Seamus~I think it was about getting a tattoo. I’m not sure.
Nanner~I am just full of them. Start a new quote book! And post about it!