I'll tell you something about tough times. They just about kill you, but if you decide to keep working at them, you'll find your way through.

Joan Bauer

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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.

senses

Teenagers are like bees at night, I think. We don't like waking up and we don't always get with the program immediately, but once we figure out our mission, we'll see it through.

teenager night thinking

Toys "R" Us. Zack put on a wool cap and sunglasses. "You look like a bank robber," I observed. "No toy is safe.

wool sunglasses looks

Will we have bodyguards?" "We're not quite set up for that. But with all these mothers, you don't need them.

bodyguard mother needs

You don't understand how much light you have until the lights go... by Joan Bauer

You don't understand how much light you have until the lights go out.

light

My father always told me that in this world we are going to make a truckload of mistakes, but the best mistake we can ever make is to err on the side of mercy

mistake father world

The problem with the heart is how it can have so many opposite feelings coursing through it all at the same time. It's really an inconsistent thing- appreciating something one minute and hating it the next.

hate opposites heart

People are so cheap. Everyone wants quality, no one wants to pay for it. Here's the suburban dream-- to hire great workers who are such meek morons that they don't have the guts to ask for a living wage.

quality dream people

Mountains draw you to a deeper place in yourself by Joan Bauer

Mountains draw you to a deeper place in yourself

deeper mountain draws

Everyone needs fudge, Hildy. It's how God helps us cope. by Joan Bauer

Everyone needs fudge, Hildy. It's how God helps us cope.

fudge helping needs

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.

light together tree

Sometimes the best thing that can happen to a person is to have a... by Joan Bauer

Sometimes the best thing that can happen to a person is to have a puppy lick your face.

puppy faces sometimes

It seemed to me that the people who made the rules of the road had figured out everything that would help a person drive safely right down to having a sign that tells you you're passing through a place where deer cross. Somebody should stick up some signs on the highway of life. CAUTION: JERKS CROSSING. Blinking yellow lights when you're about to to something stupid. Stop signs in front of people who could hurt you. Green lights shining when you're doing the right thing. It would make the whole experience easier.

light stupid hurt

Some things go too deep for words. by Joan Bauer

Some things go too deep for words.

too-deep

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

evil liars lying

Mom put dense cheddar bread into a bag for a man who said this was his wife's favorite - he'd driven all the way from New Jersey to buy it because today was their anniversary. Several women in the store jabbed their husbands on hearing this. I hung my head - Peter Terris wouldn't cross the street to buy me a Twinkie.

husband mom men

I don't do normal. I have a reputation to uphold. (Thwonk) by Joan Bauer

I don't do normal. I have a reputation to uphold. (Thwonk)

reputation normal

I had taken the photograph from afar (distance being the basic glitch in our relationship), using my Nikon and zoom lens while hiding behind a fake marble pillar. I was hiding because if he knew I'd been secretly photographing him for all these months he would think I was immature, neurotic and obsessive. I'm not. I'm an artist. Artists are always misunderstood.(Thwonk)

distance artist taken

It was February sixth: eight days until Valentine's Day. I was dateless, as usual, deep in the vice grip of unrequited love. It was bad enough not having a boyfriend for New Year's Eve. Now I had to cope with Valentine datelessness, feeling consummate social pressure from every retailer in America who stuck hearts and cupids in their windows by January second to rub it in.

valentine new-year heart

We've got so much in this life that all we know how to do is want more. So we concentrate on the wrong things-things we can see-as being the measure of a person. We think if we win something big or buy something snazzy it'll make us more than we are. Our hearts know that's not true, but the eyes are powerful.

powerful monday heart