George By Alex Gino Quotes & Sayings

The play will begin at six sharp. Parents and family, I hope you'll stay for the PTA meeting that will follow." A few parents coughed in response. George knew that coughing was the adult equivalent of groaning. — Alex Gino

Kelly took a deep breath. "And I'm sorry I ignored you last week." She scratched her neck. "And you know what? If you think you're a girl..."

George braced for Kelly's next words.

"Then I think you're a girl too! — Alex Gino

The play passed by quickly, and yet it seemed to George as though she had been onstage since the beginning of time, as if she were born there and had only now found herself where she had always been. — Alex Gino

Idolatry is not the use of images, but confusing them with what they represent, and in this respect mental images and lofty abstractions can be more insidious than bronze idols — Alan W. Watts

I love flexing theater muscles. Television has merits as well, but there's no substitute for live theater. — Eddie Cahill

That time and those people are upon you! — Ayn Rand

Death is finished, he said to himself. It is no more! — Leo Tolstoy

An Israeli man's life was saved when he was given a Palestinian man's heart in a heart transplant operation. The guy is doing fine, but the bad news is, he can't stop throwing rocks at himself. — Jay Leno

I'm more cerebral than I want to be. — Chris Pine

George stopped. It was such a short, little question, but she couldn't make her mouth form the sounds.
Mom, what if I'm a girl? — Alex Gino

She looked in the mirror and gasped. Melissa gasped back at her. For a long time, she stood there, just blinking. George smiled, and Melissa smiled too. — Alex Gino

The crime and not the scaffold makes the shame. — Pierre Corneille

The role of the intelligence - that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit. — Simone Weil

It's not weakness to require help, or a protector. — Alexandra Bracken

I had long since insisted upon interpreting the things that Fate forced me to do as victories of my own will and intelligence, and now this bad habit had grown into a sort of frenzied arrogance. In the nature of what I was calling my intelligence there was a touch of something illegitimate, a touch of the sham pretender who has been placed on the throne by some freak chance. This dolt of a usurper could not foresee the revenge that would inevitably be wreaked upon his stupid despotism. — Yukio Mishima

Nurse: "Yet he is found to be treacherous towards his friends".

Tutor: "And what man is not? dost thou only now know this, that every one lives himself dearer than his neighbour, some indeed with justice, but others even for the sake of gain. — Euripides

Never forget is not something you say on a prescribed day; if it is real it is something you live the rest of your life — Gary Holder-Winfield

His high school girlfriend. I caught them in the act." "You caught them having sex at Homestyle Buffet?" Carlos chimes in, confused and maybe a little amused. — Simone Elkeles