Joan Bauer > Quotes

“My grandma always said that God made libraries so that people didn't have any excuse to be stupid.”
― Joan Bauer, Rules of the Road

“When the going gets tough, the tough get a librarian.”
― Joan Bauer

“We read to learn and to grow, to laugh, to be motivated, and to understand things we've never been exposed to. We read for strength to help us when we feel broken, discouraged or afraid. We read to find hope. We read because we're not just made up of skin and bones, and a deep need for chocolate, but we're also made up of words, words which describe our thoughts and what's hidden in our hearts.”
― Joan Bauer

“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.”
― Joan Bauer, Hope Was Here

“Almost.
It’s a big word for me.
I feel it everywhere.
Almost home.
Almost happy.
Almost changed.
Almost, but not quite.
Not yet.
Soon, maybe.
I’m hoping hard for that.”
― Joan Bauer, Almost Home

“When we don't have the words chocolate can speak volumes.”
― Joan Bauer

“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.”
― Joan Bauer, Thwonk

“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.”
― Joan Bauer, Hope Was Here

“I've never said this to a girl before."
I bit my lip, waiting.
"Well..." He looked down. "I'm not sure how to say this." He took a deep breath and announced, "I really like fighting evil with you.”
― Joan Bauer, Peeled

“I hope you'll have the kind of life where what you stand for is so important that it makes some people outright hostile. You won't know how strong your beliefs really are until you have to defend them.”
― Joan Bauer, Best Foot Forward

“...motherhood should be like driving a car -- you should have to pass a test before you can do it legally.”
― Joan Bauer, Hope Was Here

“You cannot measure the loss of a human life. It's all the things a person was, all their dreams, all the people who loved them, all they hoped to be and could give back to the world.”
― Joan Bauer, Stand Tall

“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.”
― Joan Bauer, Hope Was Here

“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.”
― Joan Bauer, Hope Was Here

“Staring down hard truth takes guts.”
― Joan Bauer, Hope Was Here

“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.”
― Joan Bauer, Rules of the Road

“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, Close to Famous

“Everyone needs fudge, Hildy. It's how God helps us cope.”
― Joan Bauer, Peeled

“When you have something so important, something that you'll stay awake for, something you know that you were designed to do, well, it's worth getting a few dark circles, don't you think?”
― Joan Bauer, Peeled

“Some things go too deep for words.”
― Joan Bauer, Rules of the Road

“You know where we got stuck? We were looking for faithfull, loving and perfect relationships-males who were always glad to see us."
"So?"
"We already have that!"
"What do you mean?"
"We've got dogs!”
― Joan Bauer, Peeled

“...Difficult relationships come into our lives for a reason. No one would choose them, certainly. But if we let them, they can teach us how to be flexible with others and more forgiving.”
― Joan Bauer

“You don't understand how much light you have until the lights go out.”
― Joan Bauer, Peeled

“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. ”
― Joan Bauer, Best Foot Forward

“when hope gets released in a place, all kinds of things are possible”
― Joan Bauer, Hope Was Here

“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)”
― Joan Bauer

“New places always help us look at life differently”
― Joan Bauer

“...It isn't the problems along the way that make us or break us. It's how we learn to stand and face them that makes the difference.”
― Joan Bauer

“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 on their windows by January second to rub it in. (Thwonk)”
― Joan Bauer

“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.”
― Joan Bauer, Thwonk