Quotes from Joan Bauer

How could a man with so much heart die from a heart attack?

Divorce casts so many shadows.

You think all teenagers care about are musicians and movie stars? Spend some time in Wisconsin. We'll blow your socks off.

Was it alright?" "It was fine." "What aspect of the definition of fine was it?" "We had a decent time." I've been to Walgreens and had a decent time.

When you listen to G. T. Stoop, you understand the importance of being a honorable person, you get charged to fight for the truth, you get angry that so many politicians are playing games with people's trust.

Ellie: "You could lie to me. You could tell me to be encouraged, that good will triumph over evil." Richard: "Good will triumph over evil." Ellie: "Liar.

You got to laugh Tree, if you don't you'll cry.

i hate leaving places i love i was never at one place long. am i selfish?

I've got my Replogle globe, because you've got to keep a world view, you can't just live like you're the only person on the planet who matters

I held it over my heart. Mrs. Worth smiled. "That's where a book should be carried.

You don't understand how much light you've got until the lights go out

You don't need fancy things to feel good. You can hug a puppy. You can buy a can of paint and surround yourself with color. You can plant a flower and watch it grow. You can decide to trust people - the right people. You can decide to start over and let other people start over too" -Sugar Mae Cole

But through it all I held Mrs. Pettibone's words in my heart-the ones she spoke to me after the funeral when she took my hand, looked into my face and said, "You've got your father's eyes.

Mountains draw you to a deeper place in yourself

I regarded the pumpkin thief's worst nightmare: splotchy coat, tattered ears, sleeping death rattle. "He gums robbers to death?" I asked. "What if they bring biscuits?

Elden started toward me, "I think that's enough!" The man I almost knocked down bolted from his chair and shouted, "Let her speak!" Yield, rat boy!

Huevos up. Swing up to the window, swing back to Al B. Hall, who says, "Bless you," and would I get him a bottle of Satan's Red-Hot Revenge for the eggs? Sure thing, Pastor.

There's a lot of cheese where you're going, Hope. I'm not sure how this affects people long term.

Addie always keeps her promises. That's why my mother gave me to her.

Parents just concentrate on the thing that drives them nuts and all the other good stuff you do goes out the window.

We've got a bozo who likes rubbing fear and lies in people's faces. He's the only media source in town except us. Who are we writing for?" Elizabeth waved her hand emotionally. "The American people!" Baker clasped his brow. "Let's narrow that." Darrell stood. "We're writing for the community." "And they deserve the facts," Baker warned. "Don't ever forget it.

now i believe that the way to anyone's heart is through their stomach, and, my boy, i'm here to tell you, we ware in the heart business. we're going to reach deep past the menu and into the emotional power of food because a person comes back to a restaurant again and again for one reason only - to fee their soul.

Why do you think, A.J.," they say in unison, "that you find these boys so attractive?" I didn't say that this fiery chemical explosion leaps from somewhere inside me. Parents don't want to hear these things. I shrugged and said nothing. "Maybe you should try sitting on the intensity," Mom suggests, "just until your feelings catch up with reality." "We could chain you to the water heater," Dad offers, "until these little moments pass." You see what I'm up against.

You can't be with someone else effectively, unless you can stand to be alone with yourself," he declared. "Being part of a couple isn't the final answer. It can't define who you are.