Same time next year quotes

January 17 - January 25, 2026

Relive the charm of the beloved 1978 film starring Alan Alda and Ellen Burstyn, with our stage production of Same Second, Next Year! This heartfelt amorous comedy follows the unique partnership of Doris and George, who meet once a year for 25 years, sharing their joys, struggles, and evolving lives with wit, tenderness, and plenty of laughs.

Relive the charm of the beloved 1978 film starring Alan Alda and Ellen Burstyn, with our stage production of Same Time, Next Year! This earnest romantic comedy follows the distinct relationship of Doris and George, who meet once a year for 25 years, sharing their joys, struggles, and evolving lives with wit, tenderness, and plenty of laughs.

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“My mother raised me to be an unholy terror on the ice but a gentleman as soon as I take off my skates. Like a fucking Canadian should be, she’d say.”
― Tessa Bailey, Same Time Next Year

“It’s just that lately I feel a little left behind. Like everyone is checking off the boxes of life, and my pencil is broken. Or I didn’t bring one to class at all.”
― Tessa Bailey, Same Time Next Year

“You don’t have to stop me from looking at anyone but you, because I don’t want to look in the first place. Put parental controls on my phone, my laptop, block porn sites. Track my location. Lock my dick in a cage. I’ll do whatever it takes to make you realize I’m not going anywhere. I’m staying right here. I’ll make you feel secure until you realize it’s only ever going to be you.”
― Tessa Bailey, Same Time Next Year

“Can you not see that I’m starving to death for you? Can’t you tell I missed you so horribly that my family couldn’t even make me smile?”
― Tessa Bailey, Same Time Next Year

This Time Next Year Quotes

“Life is change -- if nothing's changing, you aren't living.”
― Sophie Cousens, This Time Next Year

“I don't think the scale of other people's problems make your own any easier to live with.”
― Sophie Cousens, This Time Next Year

“P.S. This book was written in a pre-COVID world. The 2020 of Minnie and Quinn’s world now exists only in some parallel universe. Whatever the year ahead might bring for us all, let’s keep reading. Books free us from isolation. Stories unite us. We’ve all had to play in one-player mode for a while—but we’re all still in this game together.”
― Sophie Cousens, This Time Next Year

“I find places like this so packed with memories. Visiting them can be like opening a memory jar. You take off the lid and the smells and sounds of a place hit you, unlocking things folded away deep in your brain.”
― Sophie Cousens, This Time Next Year

“If you kiss a man and he runs a mile, he’s no good. Life is full of times you have to turn toward the storm, and life brings many storms. Sick children, parents dying,

Same Time Next Year by Tessa Bailey

Whenever the winter season starts, I just want cozy, happy, holiday romances. It’s just the perfect season for fluff with a side of spice and Same Time Next Year by Tessa Bailey definitely delivers! I picked this up as my monthly Amazon First Reads book, hoping it would be fluffy and excited that it was just as spicy.

This is absolutely a read by the vibes kind of book. If you’re someone who cannot handle an unrealistic premise (why??) then you might have some issues with this backdrop. Yes, it makes no sense that they are able to get a marriage greencard within a year. Yes, it makes no sense that a white Canadian hockey player was going to be deported from America. Yes, it makes no sense that the government employee just happened to walking into the office at the same time they’re making out (was he coming back from lunch? coming in late to work?) Yes, it makes no sense that it is easier for a Canadian to get drafted into the NHL while in America than Canada (especially considering it isn’t for a national team or the Olympics.) And yes, it is absolutely makes no sense that a defenseman would get drafted into the N same time next year quotes

Same Time, Next Year

Bernard Slade's smart, funny, and touching play about an adulterous couple who meet one weekend a year for 26 years is nicely adapted for the screen by Robert Mulligan (To Kill a Mockingbird) in this 1978 film. The two-person story stars Alan Alda and Ellen Burstyn, both of whom are outstanding at conveying a rainbow of emotions over a quarter-century as life gives and takes away, and the world convulses with change. Mulligan brings taste and honesty to the film, and Alda and Burstyn give full, living performances. --Tom Keogh


IMDB:: 7.2
Rotten Tomatoes:: 40%

PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Year:: 1978
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