Card Game Quotes

“You do know how to play pinochle?" Mr. D eyed me suspiciously.
"I'm afraid not," I said.
"I'm afraid not, sir," he said.
"Well," he told me, "it is, along with gladiator fighting and Pac-Man, one of the greatest games ever invented by humans. I would expect all civilized young men to know the rules.”
― Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief

“Where did you meet?” he pressed on.
I shrugged and considered a little rephrasing. “I was out for a run.”
“From who?”
I leaned back to take a long, very long, slow sip of that beer.
Knox leaned forward. “I think we’re both bullsh*tting here, you ever play that card game?”
“With my grandma, every Sunday after church.”
― Dannika Dark, Sterling

“Stand Up High; Fall Down Deep”
― Snow Liber Dionysus

“Something girls never understood about poker night. The real point of the card play was to razz. Razzing calls forth unbridled farm-boy humour, earthy by some standards. The best quip involves belittling someone else's penis, or turning it back on the sayer, or both.”
― Allan Dare Pearce, Paris in April

“Ben has a Greek foot, where the second toe is longer than the rest. I didn’t expect anything different from this Greek god. His feet perfectly match his whole being.

Every cell of this man is an aesthetic wonder to me. I can’t help but linger in this moment of sensual emotional ecstasy. After a few seconds I realise that we’ve unconsciously skipped a level, namely level 19.”
― Samec Valentin, Passion in 30 Levels: An MM Romance With Dark Themes