McBealism
- There are some people who
meet that somebody that they can never stop loving, no matter how hard they
try. I wouldn't expect you to understand that, or even believe it, but trust
me, there are some loves that don't go away. And maybe that makes them crazy,
but we should all be lucky enough to end up with somebody who has a little
of that insanity. Someone who never lets go. Someone who cherishes you forever.
- I think I just need to
believe that it works. Love, couplehood, partnerships. The idea that when
two people come together, they stay together. I have to take that to bed
with me every night, even if I'm going to bed alone. That's a McBealism.
- Don't ask any questions,
don't pass judgements, don't even pass go! Just listen, accept the fact
that I need help and give it to me.
- Today is going to be a...
less bad day. I can feel it. Sometimes I wake up and know everything is
going to be... less bad.
- I'm actually luckier than
most. I get to wake up each morning, glad to start a new day — grateful
the last one is over.

- Whoever said that
'plenty of fish in the sea'
thing was wrong. Sometimes there's only one fish. Trust me.
- That's very funny, because
the other day I felt that we were going to get together and that's exactly
where it happened. In your dreams.
- The real truth is I probably
don't wanna be too happy.... or content. Because... then what? I... I acutally
like the quest. The search. That's the fun. The... the more lost you are,
the more you have to look forward to. What do you know, I'm... I'm having
a great time and... and... I don't even know it.
- Men are like gum anyway.
After you chew, they lose their flavor.
- I cannot believe the things
that I am hearing come out of your mouth. But then again considering the
places it's been I guess I shouldn't be so shocked.
- Renee:
"Snow White. Cinderella. All about gettin' a guy. Being saved by the
guy. Today, it's Little Mermaid, Aladdin, Pocahontas. All about gettin'
a guy."Ally:
"So basically we're screwed up because of..." Renee:
"Disney."

- Richard: "John, if
you don't kiss a girl on the first date, you're a gentleman. If you don't
on the second, you're gay."
- Sometimes I'm tempted to
become a street person, cut off from society. But then I wouldn't get to
wear my outfits.
- The more lost you are,
the more you have to look forward to.
- Maybe it's because they
say love is about learning to compromise, that's why when they get themselves
into compromising positions, they can call it research.
- Nuns are not supposed to
have sex... except, you know, with, uh, other nuns.
- There's no sin in loving
men. Only pain.
- Happiness is getting into
bed with anything that makes you feel warm and snuggled. I just now settle
for pajamas!

- It's not that I don't still
have all the answers, just maybe not all of them are accurate.
- I don't want what I want,
and I want what I don't want, and to complicate it even more, I don't even
know what I want or don't want!
- What's better — to blow
it, or to not stand a chance?
- The world is just made
up of weird people! Why don't they tell us? I mean, as kids, why don't they
like tell us in kindergarten, 'people
are odd'? Then at
least we wouldn't feel so bad about growing up and being strange ourselves.
And maybe we'd be more tolerant and open minded about the strangeness.
- Do you think it's significant
that just as I begin to date somebody, somebody that I like — I get this
case that says 'Don't trust passion, don't even trust trust, because even
when you think you've found love, it's only temporary even after nine years
because the statute of limitations never runs out on his right to rip you
into shreds the size of your small intestine!' I mean, what do you think?
- Thanksgiving — it's my
favorite holiday! It's the time we get to take a moment and sit back and
reflect on everything we have to be thankful for, and I honor it by kicking
cushions. Thanks for having a full life! Thanks for having somebody to love!
Thanks for getting to get up every day and getting to be a lawyer! Thanks
for not wanting a man! Thank you for not needing one! Thanks for the millions
and millions of awful men that I don't need, and I don't want! Thanks for
not having my back tickled in so long that I don't remember what it feels
like! Thank you for Thanksgiving and knowing that Christmas comes next!

- I want somebody I can be
totally weak with. Somebody who will whole me and make me feel held....
I think I crave some kind of dependency and that makes me feel like a failure
as a woman.
- "You found the love
of your life as a teenager. You've been waiting for another love like that
to come along. Now you're thinking that it might not. You'll never know
love again, that's what's eating you. Don't beat yourself up for thinking
these things, you could be 100% right!" - Tracy
- "Lonely people...
they always have a look, a look that it could change any second, maybe with
the next person that enters the room. Lonely people have hope, she didn't
seem to. She was just sad, like she knew too much. Some people find love,
permanent; some are just meant to be alone. She knew what she was."
- Jason
- The last thing you want
is to be in love with someone you can't have. That is something I know.
- "Any person that can
make you flex your romantic muscle, remind you of how it is to feel — that's
good company." - John
- "We talked of marriage,
we were in love, then suddenly he says, 'I've had a change of heart.' Doesn't
wanna see me anymore. You don't just leave at the scene of the accident!
You mow somebody down, you at least stop, check on the victim." - Lisa
(choir leader)
- "The question you
have to ask yourself: Are you capable of dating her without falling in love?
If yes, geronimo! If not, don't even think about it." - Richard
- "It's a problem being
beautiful. It's only the handsome men that ask us out because they're the
only ones who think they have a chance. And handsome men are dolts. Life
is unfair to us. At some point we have to face the certain reality: despite
all the good the world seems to offer, true happiness can only be found
in one thing — shopping."
- Ling
- "Love is an equation:
a me and a you derives a we." - Richard
- Love and law are the same.
Romantic in concept but the actual practice can give you a yeast infection.
- Sometimes there's no point
in the truth if the only thing it'll do is cause pain.
- Sometimes... when you hold
out for everything, you walk away with nothing.
- I need to believe that
men and women love each other. I need to know that they go home to each
other every night, so I can believe that it will happen to me too someday.

- Did you ever buy a lottery
ticket? I buy them sometimes, I mean not that I think I would ever win,
but I like to hold it in my hand, and think: What if? That’s why I bought
that contraceptive jelly. I thought: What if? What if I’m walking down the
street and I suddenly march right into somebody, and we just know immediately
off of one look that we were meant for each other, and it’s like Barbra
Streisand and Omar Sharif, but instead of singing about it we go off and
make passionate love...





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