Everwood Quotes ... Page 1
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"I realized that's how he makes me feel, not just safe, but happy. He makes me laugh, and I know he'll be there for me when I cry. He's always been there for me, and I'm just finally realizing how rare that is." - Everwood
"Everyone has a touchstone. A last line of defense against the mayhem and sorrow of this world. The thing about your touchstone, you come to depend on it no matter whether you set out to or not." -Everwood
"You know what? You said you were crazy. And you know what? News flash, you are." - Everwood
"I find it best when dealing with any unfamiliar bully to strike early with sarcasm. It makes them wonder whether I have some secret butt-kicking prowess they're unable to detect." - Everwood
"That was right on my list of things to do today, right between picking up my dry cleaning and chopping off my hand." - Everwood
"No matter how old you are, it's hard not to get excited when snow starts to fall. Because, so long as it keeps coming, no one can make you go anywhere or do anything. All life's rules are suspended...The best thing about snow, other than snowballs, is that it has an equalizing effect. Snow can take any object or situation and make it pretty just the same. Couldn't care less what's underneath...It's not just that snow makes the world pretty. Snow gives us all a second chance. Snow cleanses. Hiding the sins of all with no prejudices, favor or blame. Everything gets to be pure again. If only for a little while. Which might be all you need." - Everwood
"Dear Valentine, come away with me. If I had a day with you and you only, I would enjoy the simple things. The things that bring joy to the drudgery and the mundane, the things that, in the end, when time steals the rest away, are the only things we'll remember. I would paddle you across a still lake in a rowboat and read poetry to you until you fell asleep, and I would never ever think about the hours." � Everwood
"Dear Valentine, if I had one day with you and you only, I would admire every line of your face, every strand of your hair, every graceful movement of your hands or your eyes or your body. If I had one perfect day. Don't you see, my heart beats only for you?" - Everwood
"Dear Valentine, these are the things I remember, my love... A warm hand, your warm breath, your warm mouth, your arms around mine. I remember feeling safe, ceaseless, like one person, the two of us, still, at rest, entwined. I remember how I felt the first time I kissed you. It felt like... the high dive. What do you remember? How will I ever know what was inside your heart? Where do they go, all the things we think and feel but don't say?" - Everwood
"Dear Valentine, these are the things I never told you, these are the things I need you to know... that I loved you always, and my love was so big, it lives still after you're gone. I'd like to tell you that I would do it differently, that if I had one more day I would do everything right. But I know that not to be true. I'd make all the same mistakes. That is, except one... I wouldn't say good-bye. "- Everwood
"He's that guy that you'd want to hang out with even if you weren't dating him, and he's cute in that kinda way that's sorta like... you know in the movies that guy you want the girl to end up with that everybody pretends isn't cute, but really is." - Everwood
"Forget for a minute what the real world looks like, forget what you know, sometimes you need to believe in what isn't exactly there. A daydream of better nights. A storybook fantasy where life is ordered and consistent and tales get awfully exciting before they wrap up nicely for all involved. Who are we to enforce reality? After all, you never know when the good angel of fortune might bring a page from your book to life and throw a kind of miracle your way." - Everwood
"Throughout the centuries mankind has been fascinated by the nighttime sky, ancient people believed that the heavens were moved by a pantheon of gods while others thought that the stars were diamonds hanging just out of reach with all the advances of technology of late, modern science offers more opportunities than ever to unravel the mysteries of the night sky. And yet it seems the closer we get to the stars, the less we actually understand them." - Everwood
"They say that patience is a virtue, that good things come to those who wait. Of course, they also say, he who hesitates is lost. Unfortunately sometimes what looks like patience on the outside is really fear underneath like so much sheep's clothing wrapped around a very clever wolf." - Everwood
"Ask any parent and they'll tell you their child is incredibly brilliant. One in a million of those parents might be right. Just try telling that to the other couple hundred thousand." - Everwood
"So you know what I was thinking...If there's all these college guys who are like totally hitting on high school girls, then there's probably a whole surplus of neglected college girls who want to hit on high school guys." - Everwood
"The more things change, the more they stay the same. I'm not sure who the first person was who said that. Probably Shakespeare. Or maybe Sting. But at the moment, it's the sentence that best explains my tragic flaw: my inability to change. I don't think I'm alone in this. The more I get to know other people, the more I realize it's kind of everyone's flaw. Staying exactly the same for as long as possible, standing perfectly still... It feels safer somehow. And if you are suffering, at least the pain is familiar. Because if you took that leap of faith, went outside the box, did something unexpected... Who knows what other pain might be out there, waiting for you. Chances are it could be even worse. So you maintain the status quo. Choose the road already traveled and it doesn't seem that bad. Not as far as flaws go. You're not a drug addict. You're not killing anyone... Except maybe yourself a little. When we finally do change, I don't think it happens like an earthquake or an explosion, where all of a sudden we're like this different person. I think it's smaller than that. The kind of thing most people wouldn't even notice unless they looked at us really close. Which, thank God, they never do. But you notice it. Inside you that change feels like a world of difference. And you hope this is it. This is the person you get to be forever... that you'll never have to change again. "- Everwood
"If you're feeling frightened about what comes next, don't be. Embrace the uncertainty. Allow it to lead you places. Be brave as it challenges you to exercise both your heart and your mind as you create your own path towards happiness, don't waste time with regret. Spin wildly into your next action. Enjoy the present, each moment, as it comes; because you'll never get another one quite like it. And if you should ever look up and find yourself lost, simply take a breath and start over. Retrace your steps and go back to the purest place in your heart... where your hope lives. You'll find your way again." - Everwood
"I think ignoring something gives it too much power. Pretty soon we're trying to remember what we were trying to forget." -Everwood
"Ephram: I remember everything about us.
Amy: Me too, See that's the thing. Every time I try to forget, the feelings that I have for you, they just they keep coming back. I know they're back. And I don't wanna push them down anymore, I don't wanna run away from this because I never... wanna lose you again, I just wanna be with you. Next year, wherever you are." - Everwood
"They say that from the instant he lays eyes on her, a father adores his daughter. Whomever she grows up to be, she is always to him that little girl in pigtails. She makes him feel like Christmas. In exchange, he makes a secret promise not to see the awkwardness of her teenage years, the mistakes she makes, or the secrets she keeps." - Everwood
"Andy: You were right, I was wrong.
Linda: It must have caused you some physical pain for you to utter that sentence.
Andy: Just some internal bleeding." - Everwood
"Ephram: For an apology, that sounded an awful lot like a breakup.
Amy: I'm sorry I wasted your time and it would kill me to think I wasted any more of it. I want you to promise me something.
Ephram: Amy.
Amy: Promise me that you won't let me and you get in the way of you and somebody else.
Ephram: (after a long pause) I promise." - Everwood
"I have taken you for granted. But hey, you're a better person than I am. Everybody else sees it, I don't know why you don't. As if you didn't know this already, I'm kinda a giant mess right now. I have been ever since you've known me. I might have been more normal in Junior High, I don't know. The point is, you deserve someone great, Ephram, amazing even. Someone a little less like me and a little more like you." - Everwood
"God isn't meant to be understood intellectually. Sometimes he's absent on purpose. He wants us to doubt, it makes us stronger. It opens other doors." - Everwood
"Guy's have pride. And he's not gonna sit around playing mind-games with you forever. Soon he's gonna get tired of that, and he's gonna move on." - Everwood
"Amy: I've really missed this. You know, us.
Ephram: I've really missed us too." - Everwood
"Your first choice doesn't come through, so you come and find me, your back-up plan." - Everwood
"Ya know, I don't know why they call it a driving test. All they really care about is parking." - Everwood
"I can't keep doing this....I can't keep being your second choice. Not when you're my first." - Everwood
"There are moments in life so archetypal, that theres only one proper response, one right thing to say. But as humans, each with our own idiosyncrasies, preferences, and perceptions, we may not always have the response that the universe or, say, our parents want or expect us to have. It is at moments such as these that we realize that the truth has a distinct cost that cant be bargained down. And in these moments we must choose whether to pay the price." - Everwood
"No, it's not the presents. It's you Andy. I'm not interested in you. I'm sorry, I was hoping that we didn't have to have this whole conversation, but obviously we do. The thing is, ummm, I'm-I'm not attracted to you and I'm sorry if I gave you the wrong impression, but I don't want to date you and I don't parse anything romantic happening between us." - Everwood
"You know you said you liked me. You said I made you come 'undone' I am not quite sure what that means exactly but I know it's a good thing." - Everwood
"What I want is to be able to have a life, and I wouldn't even mind having to share it with you. But you won't let that happen. You're too busy controlling everything and everyone, that I don't even think you know what you're controlling anymore." - Everwood
"Andy: Delia, when someone we love dies, it's okay to be sad about it for awhile. For as long as you need to be really. But you-you, just can't hang on to all the love that you used to give to that person.
Delia: Why not?
Andy: Because--love's not worth a whole lot if you just keep it to yourself." - Everwood
"And the bubble isn't really that safe either, I mean the bubble could pop... the bubble could burn down... someone could rob the bubble." - Everwood
"Do you think we can just maybe rewind the last couple days? Just go back completely?" - Everwood
"Sometimes it's easier to pretend that things are okay, rather than face a difficult truth. So we go through the motions, the rituals of everyday life. We hope the comfortable rhythms of familiarity will hold off the inevitable just a little longer; return things to normal, anything to buy us more time. Playing pretend, make believe, it might be the one thing we never outgrow." - Everwood
"The speed and direction of our path through life are pretty good measures of our age. We race headlong through childhood, never looking back; wanting it to end as quickly as possible. As we get older, we occasionally slow down long enough to look around and savor certain moments: It's a sure sign of growing up. It's only in our twilight years, when our pace is slowed and the long race is nearing the end that we spend most of our time looking backwards, and we wonder why we were ever in such a hurry." - Everwood
"That's me, I'm all about the silver lining." - Everwood
"This is the toughest part, this moment. But if you do this right, you won't spend the rest of your life regretting anything or resenting anyone or kicking yourself. I know you want to move on to the next chapter and you will. But I am not about to let you sign on the dotted line and accept whatever standard, minimum crap he is offering. You deserve much more. Do you understand me?" - Everwood
"Do you know how hard that was for me? To lay my heart on the line like that?" - Everwood
"Maybe it's easy for you but it's not for me. I don't really like feeling this vulnerable." - Everwood
"Dreams aren't meant to be understood any more than tragedy can be averted. Life happens to us. We learn to be grateful when things are good and to count our blessings when things are bad. And the only certainty in all of it is that it all just... keeps happening." - Everwood
"I'm pretty sure we've been down this road before, many, many times. In fact, it's kind of crazy how many times we've been down this road without anything actually ever happening, on the road. It seemed like something always messes us up. Lately, that something has been me. I feel like I've been given a second chance and I don't want to blow it. I can't stop thinking about what you said about me staying and us really taking a shot. The thing is, I know what would happen if we did that. It would be exactly the way I thought it would be, perfect. You know, I never really worried much about what would happen if we actually got together. Somehow I always knew that part would work itself out. It's just the getting there that seemed so impossible. I could never imagine both of us being on the same page at the same time." - Everwood
"I just feel like everything is coming to a head right now and there's all this great energy surrounding us and if you go away for eight weeks, that's just a really long time. And I'm not sure it's still gonna be like this when you get back. I don't want to take that risk." - Everwood
"Dreams are our world turned upside down. Gravity, logic, time rendered meaningless. The world of dreams is not our world. Although in the dead of night, it tempts and deceives. This is what makes dreams so dangerous." - Everwood
"I think sometimes that ignoring something gives it too much power... pretty soon all that we can remember is what it is we were trying to forget." - Everwood
"It's tough trying to make new best friends after a certain point in your life; it's like, how do you catch them up on everything they already missed?" - Everwood
"I just really need to figure out how to move on with my life right now... without you." - Everwood
