My Most Excellent Year Quotes:

Augie: Does everybody else know? T.C.: About my epitaph? Augie: About me being gay, you gink-head hoser-face! T.C. Not everybody. There's a night watchman at a Dunkin Donuts just outside of Detroit. He doesn't know yet.

- Steve Kluger

topic: Gay, Night, Dunkin Donuts, My Most Excellent Year

Never, ever stop believing in magic, no matter how old you get. Because if you keep looking long enough and don't give up, sooner or later you're going to find Mary Poppins.

- Steve Kluger

source: Steve Kluger (2009). “My Most Excellent Year: A Novel of Love, Mary Poppins, and Fenway Park”, p.268, Penguin

topic: Life, Giving Up, Believe, Old You, My Most Excellent Year

Even though I didn't notice it while it was happening, I got reminded in ninth grade of a few things I guess I should have known all along. 1. A first kiss after five months means more than a first kiss after five minutes. 2. Always remember what it was like to be six. 3. Never, ever stop believing in magic, no matter how old you get. Because if you keep looking long enough and don't give up, sooner or later you're going to find Mary Poppins. And if you're reall lucky, maybe even a purple balloon.

- Steve Kluger

topic: Giving Up, Believe, Mean, Ninth Grade, My Most Excellent Year

A first kiss after five months means more than a first kiss after five minutes.

- Steve Kluger

source: Steve Kluger (2009). “My Most Excellent Year: A Novel of Love, Mary Poppins, and Fenway Park”, p.268, Penguin

topic: Mean, Kissing, Months, My Most Excellent Year

. . . it's not just the people we love, but the people we let love us back who show us how high we can really soar.

- Steve Kluger

source: Steve Kluger (2009). “My Most Excellent Year: A Novel of Love, Mary Poppins, and Fenway Park”, p.261, Penguin

topic: People, Soar, Shows, My Most Excellent Year

Ale: Are you manipulating me again? T.C.: Try not to fall for it. I dare you.

- Steve Kluger

topic: Fall, Trying, Ale, My Most Excellent Year

Like there's actually a need for Greenland. You can get ice at 7-Eleven.

- Steve Kluger

source: Steve Kluger (2009). “My Most Excellent Year: A Novel of Love, Mary Poppins, and Fenway Park”, p.83, Penguin

topic: Ice, Needs, Eleven, My Most Excellent Year, Greenland

Just because you discover that you may like somebody after all, it doesn't necessarily mean there's any attraction.

- Steve Kluger

source: Steve Kluger (2009). “My Most Excellent Year: A Novel of Love, Mary Poppins, and Fenway Park”, p.134, Penguin

topic: Mean, May, Attraction, My Most Excellent Year

T.C.: Um, actually you just said "I live in a parking lot." You didn't mean to do that. Lori: You've never seen traffic on Concord Street at eight o'clock in the morning.

- Steve Kluger

source: Steve Kluger (2009). “My Most Excellent Year: A Novel of Love, Mary Poppins, and Fenway Park”, p.157, Penguin

topic: Morning, Mean, Eight, Parking Lot, My Most Excellent Year

Why do guys insist on wearing those odious jeans with their rear ends hanging down around their ankles? Do they really think it's hot?

- Steve Kluger

source: Steve Kluger (2009). “My Most Excellent Year: A Novel of Love, Mary Poppins, and Fenway Park”, p.59, Penguin

topic: Thinking, Jeans, Guy, My Most Excellent Year

Papa, I'm ashamed that you think women are so simple. We can make decisions for ourselves too, you know. I'm not a child or a baby anymore, so I'm allowed to speak my mind. And if you don't wish to hear it, just tell me so and I'll go into another room-but I'll speak it anyway. I want this for myself as much as I've never wanted the diplomatic corps and I'm going to get it-even if I have to do it alone. Excuse me.

- Steve Kluger

topic: Baby, Children, Simple, My Most Excellent Year

Communicating with the federal government is like talking to a computer that's crashing.

- Steve Kluger

source: Steve Kluger (2009). “My Most Excellent Year: A Novel of Love, Mary Poppins, and Fenway Park”, p.130, Penguin

topic: Talking, Government, Computer, My Most Excellent Year