“Dear Isabel, how strange to have a cultivated woman in the house again, and how intoxicating. Indeed to have all three of my sons under my roof again fills me with such a deep, quiet satisfaction that I thank God.
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Philip Anthony Hopkins - Col. William Ludlow

“I crave a happy life, grandpa. I have a almost desperate craving for stability and happiness, the way fat people crave chocolate or lost hikers crave rescue. I want to live a big, great, fantastical life, but I am concerned that the tragedy that seems to follow me, the tragedy that birthed me will prevent that from ever happening.”
Kya Kruse - Young Dylan

“- Ernest Menville: She's dead!
- Madeline Ashton: She is? Oh. These are the moments that make life worth living.”
Bruce Willis - Ernest Menville
Meryl Streep - Madeline Ashton

“Life is like that. Sometimes, at the height of our revelries, when our joy is at its zenith, when all is most right with the world, the most unthinkable disasters descend upon us.”
Jean Shepherd - Ralphie as an Adult

“There only two important things in living - finding out what you do well and finding out what makes you happy. And if God is smiling on you, they're both the same thing.”
Héctor Elizondo - Arthur Willis