Quotes About Community

Arthur and Julie and Mark and Rachel. The Siegels and the Feldmans. It's not just that we were best friends—we dated each other. We went steady. That's one of the things that happens when you become a couple: you date other couples. We saw each other every Saturday night and every Sunday night, and we had a standing engagement for New Year's Eve. Our marriages were tied together.

there I was, trying to hold up my end in a city where you can't even buy a decent bagel. I don't mean to make it sound as if it's all about being Jewish, but that's another thing about Washington. It makes you feel really Jewish if that's what you are. It's not just that there are so many Gentiles there; it's that the Gentiles are so Gentile. Listen, even the Jews there are sort of Gentile.

There's nothing worse than having people to a dinner that they all just polish off and before you know it, they're done eating and dinner is over and it's only ten o'clock and everyone leaves and it's just you and the dishes.

Excuse me? Tonight you represent every dateless woman in this city, every woman who's about to sit down to a lonely meal of Weight Watchers past primavera she's just nuked in the microwave. Every woman who will get into bed tonight with a book or reruns of Sex and the City as her only companion. You are our shining hope....But no pressure.

If people let other people alone, people would be better off. It's always people that screw things up for people anyway.

You mess with one Quinn, you mess with them all.

Simon's initial annoyance with having so many people and animals swarming around gave way to the realization that sometimes people didn't get in the way, but helped make a necessary and tedious job go smoother.

The world needs lovers who fit, or how would we go on? To be only one of one for a life? That's a lonely life.

It wasn't the paramedics or the surgical team that saved my life. It was Ray and Stella Quinn.

Friendship's the bread of life, isn't it now?

The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.

give her a ride.

Strangers are treated as friends, and friends never as strangers.

but people like the Mercers, like Kurt Rove, belittle and bad-talk those of us who, well, have something that might help get all of us through.

Finally, he's back in the little blue-and-white house where there's always a boat at the dock, a rocker on the porch, and a dog in the yard.

I'm done lighting out, done needing to. This is my land. It's not about the owning of it, but waking up in the morning knowing you're where you want to be, having good work to do and good people around you.

That's a kind of magic, isn't it? Every bit as much as faeries and spells and winged horses. I'm accepted here, not for what I do, or where I come from, or where I went to school. I'm accepted for who I am. For who, more importantly, I'm finally letting myself become.

the people. The bees that buzz, the birds that fly, all bound together.

Thank you! We carry local artists and artisans. There are so many

They inhabit the earth, live among people. Lots of politics and protocol." Dana sat on the floor. "Anything

where two men played pool and a woman sat at a

Welcome to Lunacy.

you can borrow mine." He eased

was more precious than gold. And some, like those who found and formed New Hope, rebuilt.