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Neal Marlens Quotes

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“That night my father stood there, looking up at the sky the way he always did. But suddenly I realized I wasn't afraid of him in quite the same way anymore. The funny thing is, I felt like I lost something.”
— Carol Black, Neal Marlens, The Wonder Years, Season 1: My Father's Office
Tagged: Childhood, father, Fear
“Maybe we both realized that growing up doesn’t always have to be a straight line, but a series of advances and retreats. Maybe we just felt like swinging. But whatever it was, Winnie and I made an unspoken pact that day to stay kids for a little while longer.”
— Narrator (Adult Kevin), The Wonder Years, Season 1: Swingers
Tagged: Growing Up, Swinging
“Ben: [to Jason about his science project] But you told me to do something that interests me. Mike and Carol interest me more than mold.

Jason: That's a touching sentiment, Ben. Now cut it out!

Ben: What's with him?

Mike: He doesn't like you, he never has.”
— Ben Seaver, Growing Pains, Season 1: Jealousy
Tagged: science project, i don't like you
“Louis: Don't accept all this death and then justify it. It is wrong! Your friends should be alive...they should be enjoying dinner, and arguing with their kids, just like you are.

Jack: What do you know about it? Who the hell are you to say that?!

Louis: [pulls a piece of paper out of his pocket] You see this, man? This is my draft notice. In two weeks, I can go to jail, I can go to Canada or, I can go get shot, full of holes, like your friend Brian Cooper. You keep thinking the way you do, Mr. Arnold, and these two [points to Kevin and Wayne] will be next. And I just hope that's what they want.”
— John "Jack" Arnold, The Wonder Years, Season 1: Angel
Tagged: draft dodging, Death, Vietnam War
“It was the first kiss for both of us. We never really talked about it afterward, but I think about the events of that day again and again, and somehow I know that Winnie does too. Whenever some blowhard starts talking about the anonymity of the suburbs, or the mindlessness of the TV generation. Because we know that inside each one of those identical boxes, with its Dodge parked out front, and its white bread on the table, and its TV set glowing blue in the falling dusk, there were people with stories. There were families bound together in the pain and the struggle of love. There were moments that made us cry with laughter. And there were moments, like that one, of sorrow and wonder.”
— Narrator (Adult Kevin), The Wonder Years, Season 1: Pilot
Tagged: Dodge, first kiss
“Who was right, and who was wrong? Well, I'm supposed to be an adult now, and I still can't completely figure that one out. But at some point, late at night, near sleep, the ideas and the disagreements sort of dissolve, and you're just left with the people. And people were no different then, as they've always been. And always will be. Young girls get their hearts broken. Men and women suffer alone, over the choices they've made. And young boys, full of confusion...full of fear...full of love and courage...grow up stealthily in their sleep.”
— Narrator (Adult Kevin), The Wonder Years, Season 1: Angel
Tagged: Right, Wrong, Disagreements, Men, Women, Growing Up
“As seventh grade wore on, I began to have nightmares. I'm walking into a sort of a—a cave. A long dark tunnel. I think Paul and Winnie are with me. But then—then—they're not. I'm all alone. I don't even want to go into the cave—I'm, I'm terrified. But I just know that I have to keep going—deeper, and deeper. So deep, it's like I can't even remember what the daylight is like anymore, and suddenly—I'm in second period math class. In pajamas. With feet! I guess I was under a lot of stress. There are a lot of things about junior high life that might seem simple to an outsider... but they're not. Take the fifteen minutes before homeroom every morning. What you do with those fifteen minutes says pretty much everything there is to say about you as a human being.”
— Narrator (Adult Kevin), The Wonder Years, Season 2: Heart of Darkness
Tagged: seventh grade, cave diving
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