What Happened To The Bennetts Quotes
"I love the dog but he has two speeds: Asleep and Annoying."
"I love my wife. We met at Bucknell, where she was an art major and I was a work-study jock slinging mac and cheese in the dining hall, wearing a hairnet, no less."
"It's called 'situational awareness,' we learned about it in assembly!"
"I remember the day we brought her home from the hospital, don’t you?"
"I felt a wave of regret, of things not done, milestones not achieved."
"We can't look over our shoulder for the rest of our lives."
"We lost our daughter. We cannot lose our son."
"I didn’t feel entitled to, when Allison could not."
"Tears came to my eyes. I took the heron as a sign."
"My daughter believed I had superpowers, but I didn’t."
"I had let her down. It broke me in pieces, wiped me out, annihilated me."
"They meant everything can change for the better. They never say it can change for the worse."
"I missed my daughter with every cell in my body."
"My heart actually ached, which I hadn’t known was physically possible."
"I valued procedural safeguards, but form was too often elevated over substance."
"I was living that reality. Milo was on the street to kill my daughter because of lawyers like Hart."
"I would never understand lawyers who weaponized the law against justice."
"I wanted to give her a note, a wish I hadn’t acknowledged until this very moment."
"Something else we weren't told," Lucinda interrupted. "But what about my mother? What if they do something to her? She's a person, not property. Will you protect her?"
"You protect my mother or I won't testify to a single thing!"
"Listen, I promise you." Dom raised a finger. "I will defend your lives and Ethan's with my own. You have my word."
"I didn’t know how the government would value my business or hers, but it paled in comparison to one thing. Allison."
"I didn’t know how other fathers survived their own children. I wished I could talk to one, just one. I wished someone would tell me. It wasn’t possible, yet people did it every day. I just didn’t know how."
"You have to trust me." Dom cocked his head. "But can I trust you?"
"I love you, buddy. You know that, don't you?"
"It's not the same, but we're still a family."
"The people you love, like Pop and Allison, even the pets you love, they never leave you, not as long as you love them."
"You’ll always have them as long as you love them. And you’ll love them forever. That’s what lasts forever. The love."
"Death was everywhere, in the present, in the past, in the future. I wondered why we bothered with time at all."
"She’s not happy, ever. I just didn’t realize it before. She’s miserable all the time."
"That’s who I am, but you threw me away in favor of a liar."
"All we have are memories, and right now I have memories of her and I have memories of Allison, and they’re with me all the time."
"It’s because you can’t handle it. You don’t want to outlive your child, no matter how old your child is."
"I can’t handle losing Allison, I really can’t. I don’t want to get out of bed, ever. Ever, ever."
"The big firms will recruit you. You’ll make it back in no time."
"She made noodle and tuna casserole every Sunday. Matter of fact, I still got one in the freezer. Got the date on it and all. I won’t eat it. Can’t bring myself to."
"I had to do whatever it took to get justice for her."
"I was sitting in a cheap motel room in industrial Philadelphia, contemplating going into the belly of the beast."
"All hell had broken loose tonight, but the truth was inching to the surface."
"I knew what I had set in motion and I could only pray it would work."
"My sole consolation was that I was trying to bring it to an end."
"The sky began to brighten as I headed uphill, a peace came over me."
"I didn’t know what I would say to her anyway."
"We'll find that asshole who shot him. We're on the lookout, all of us."
"You wouldn’t come if you had. I knew you were telling the truth."
"Cigarette companies sell death. Drug companies sell rehab."
"I lost a daughter, you lost a son, it has to stop."
"What’s the point of killing me? How much time do you have left anyway?"
"No matter how hard the past, you can always begin again."
"The true test of a person's character is how they treat the people in their life they don't need."
"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow is our doubts of today."
"Grief is one thing, and fear's another. I'm moving on."
"I love you, and that's what I want, too. We'll rebuild everything."
"We will always love you, Allison. Soar high, sweet girl."
"That's what a family was for, even when the worst thing possible happens."