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1 " It's like getting an extraordinary meal after you've been eating junk food for a long time. The taste just sweeps through your sensibilities, bringing all-out contentment, and the sheer goodness of it makes up for every bad meal you ever had. "
― Joan Bauer , Hope Was Here
2 " Revenge of the Giant Grill Man. "
3 " 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. "
4 " You don't understand the power of loss when it first hits you like a baseball coming fast from an out-of-control pitcher....It's the third day after an injury when the pain really starts to throb. "
5 " a man who was, as we say in the restaurant business, one taco short of a combo platter. "
6 " You think all teenagers care about are musicians and movie stars?Spend some time in Wisconsin.We'll blow your socks off. "
7 " It was probably easier in the old days when the bad guys rode into town wearing black capes or whatever bad guys wore and the milk cows were ownded by honest people. Right off the bat, you'd know who you were dealing with. Now everybody dresses alike. "
8 " And we learned that you don't have to be famous or rich or physically healthy to be a leader. You just have to try to be a true person. We learned that helping other people brings out the good in everybody. "
9 " The sad heart needs work to do. "
10 " There's a lot of cheese where you're going, Hope. I'm not sure how this affects people long term. "
11 " You've got to love yourself with all your short comings, and you've got to love the world no matter how bad it gets. "
12 " ...motherhood should be like driving a car -- you should have to pass a test before you can do it legally. "
13 " You don't know which way a thing will come at you, but you need to welcome it with your whole heart which ever way it arrives. "
14 " Staring down hard truth takes guts. "
15 " when hope gets released in a place, all kinds of things are possible "
16 " When you can carry five full dinner platters on your left arm, you should be able to vote, even if you're not eighteen. "
17 " I had expected the well to be full for some reason.Not that it had ever been before.I kept looking for signs of water in the dark insides.I heard my bucket clank as it hitAgainst the walls that held nothing.I look at the bucket that came up emptyAnd made a decision that changed my life.I will keep my bucket and find another well. "
18 " He stood up, put the tree back under the grow light. 'There. That's what's going to happen to us. It's called grafting. Taking something from one place and fixing it to another until they grow together. We didn't start from the same tree, but we're going to grow together like we did. "
19 " it's a complete rush to get what you've been hoping for - to get it so full and complete that it fills your senses. "
20 " Know why I plant trees?""No.""I like thinking that they'll be here long after I'm gone. All those fine memories pushing up to the sky. "
