what Dave thinks about movies, books and everything
{5/5} “Like every other parent, I spend sleepless nights imagining what my kids are going to say about me to their psychiatrists. ‘She wasn’t home.’ ‘She missed my baseball game.’ ‘She made me listen to her tight ten for a week before she opened in Toledo and then had us heckle her for three hours […]
{4.5/5} “A flock of starlings looped and bloomed and contracted as it described graceful patterns above the mist, dipping down sometimes to disappear, before reemerging in a plume of vapor. The rush of the long grass behind them seemed to swell and retreat in time with the movements of the birds… There atop the bluff, […]
{5/5} “I want revenge. And I’m talking real revenge, not the ‘Hey, I got you a lifetime subscription to The Watchtower’ kind of revenge, but Shakespearean, blood-soaked, painful, soul-crushing revenge. I will dig out my high school clarinet and play klezmer music next door to you 24 hours a day. I will sneak into your […]
{5/5} “‘How does it feel, Abe?’ ‘Well, I never imagined they would publish the piece this quickly. With hardly any editing. It’s wonderful.’ ‘I meant to be holding your grandson.’ ‘Well, that’s good too.’” — Mohel Rosenbaum & Abe The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel season 3, aired in 2019 Midge has fun performing for the army, […]
{5/5} “‘Are you going to row?’ ‘No. Are you?’ ‘No. The boy rows.’ ‘I don’t row.’ ‘What do you mean you don’t row? Everybody rows.’ ‘Then go ahead and row.’ ‘The boy rows.’ ‘Not this boy.’ ‘Pick up that oar.’ ‘It was your idea to get into a rowboat.’” — Midge & Benjamin The Marvelous […]
{4.5/5} “‘Then I presume you understand why I cannot allow you to consult with us now.’ Spock lifted an eyebrow at the questioning looks the older men gave him. ‘Logically, neither you nor Captain Sulu may be considered to be allies in any attempt we make to repair the timeline that is keeping you alive.’” […]
{5/5} “‘A hole here, a hole here, two holes here. I mean, how does this happen?’ ‘It was probably a moth.’ ‘A moth?’ ‘Yes.’ ‘What moth?’ ‘Ted. Ted the moth. Dime-sized holes, that’s his signature.’” — Joel & Midge The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel season 1, aired in 2017 Midge marries the perfect man, Joel Maisel. […]
{4.5/5} “‘Do you want it done cheap or do you want it done right?’ ‘Do people come to your work and try to low-ball you?’” — Emma & Amy, talking about acting as contractors for Angie Single Parents season 2, aired in 2019-20 Aside from Miggy’s baby, the kids are all away for the summer. […]
{4.5/5} “The shock of hearing that he was already dead on this planet, in this time, had hit him with unexpected force. It wasn’t dismay or disbelief that made Sulu’s breath catch in his suddenly dry throat. It was the horror of realizing that the immense explosion he had been flung into was his own […]
{4.5/5} “Emma and I are Shawshanking our way to the neighbours’.” — Amy, who is 7 years old Single Parents season 1, aired in 2018-19 A group of single parents whose kids go to school together help each other out with babysitting. When new guy Will appears, the others decide to help him become slightly […]