Men in Trees

Marin Frist:
As children we're taught to play nice; share your toys eat your vegtables. And if you don't have anything nice to say don't say it at all. But everytime we bite our tounges, we know each other a little less. To spare someone's feelings we hide our own. And when you hide what you feel, you end up with regrets. Being honest might not make you the most popular girl in the shcool yard, but it will earn you respect. And when nice girls learn to respect themselves, they'll always finish first.

Marin Frist:
So I guess there's no easy way to move on from a relationship. You can't flip a switch and suddenly be over it, because the road really is full of hidden potholes. You can try staying in the relationship, you can stay home and dream of the unobtainable one, but in the end it just takes time, and some Alaskan tap water, and the help of a town full of good men. Thanks for sleeping with me Elmo.

Ben Jackson:
She's not gonna forget about you. You mattered to her. You don't forget about the people you care about.

Marin Frist:
There's no such thing as steady ground, that's why the buddy system exists. It's important to find people you can trust, someone you know will pull you out of whatever hole you fall into. You can throw a line out to anyone but it's up to them to catch it and hold on. In the end you have to let yourself be tied to someone else, it's the only way we'll make it.

Marin Frist:
Did you just compare me to Lassie?

Marin Frist:
You know what I'll never get? Is how you could open your heart to someone who broke it into pieces, but you couldn't open it to someone who just wanted to heal it.

Marin Frist:
My predecessor Abe Lincoln once said,' When I do good I feel good. When I do bad I feel bad.' If only it were that black-and-white. Sometimes doing the right thing makes you feel everything but good. It can feel scary, uncomfortable, because even when you make the right choices, the bad things can still happen. As much as we want them, there are no guarantees. All we can do is have faith that if we act with our heart, the things we do will one day make us feel right even if sometimes the thing we do feels just a little wrong.