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=Quotes from A Bridge to Wiseman’s Cove= P4 “… a bloated pincushion on sturdy legs.” “ A slow-moving target.” P75 “The discovery of the hat, its purchase and the courage to ram it on his head made him part of something. It was too precious to sell.” P75 “Skip …saw what he hadn’t thought to find, not in someone named Matt.” P99 “ He (Carl) shouted for the whole bar, the whole town, to hear, a wild ferocious roar…..He deserves better than that ….And so do I…” P111 “ Carl was caught between the two… he was there to protect him (Harley) too” P114 Joy: “..I don’t suppose he’s told you how important you are to us….We need you” P114 “ … a warmth spreading through Carl’s limbs..” P129 Convincing Skip to help find Harley : “ There was fear all around him now. He had to fight his way through no matter which way he turned…” P150 Carl: “ The barge was his. … That was a Carl Matt he liked to think of…” P157 Maddie: “You love that barge, don’t you, Carl? …You’re the best thing that could have happened.” P159 Releasing the osprey: “ Carl shared in…the freedom of the bird itself. Elation, freedom. He felt them both..” P 166 Acknowledgement from local people: “ You’re the kid from the barge… clapped him..on the shoulder.. …That was something, finding your brother out on the bay..” p171 At the pizza party: “No one had ever been pleased to meet him before..except Joy Duncan..” p174 Stopping Nathan from taking Maddie outside: “ It was no different from standing on the barge, confident in what he knew. ..” p181 After the party: “ He had never been at peace with the touch of another as he was that night. He was awash with it … drifting happily.” P184 Justine to Carl: “..you play dead… (Carl) Yes…I want to be alive” p189 Standing up to Beryl “ No you won’t, Beryl. He’s staying with Joy and Skip. You won’t call Social Security..if you try..I’ll be on the phone five minutes later..” p197 Deciding to stay in Wattle Beach: “..he’d made a silent promise to himself…He’d stay… The last of the Matts.” P221 Sticking with Beryl when Joy asks Carl to come and live with them: “I can’t leave her…That’s what the Matts have always done. As soon as there was trouble, they’d run away.” P223 Joy tells Carl: “ It’s time we found your mother.” P230 In the pine forest after seeing his mother’s picture, Carl to Joy: “ ..There’s something broken inside me… I’m like the osprey…the pain was too much..” P232 Carl can finally admit that he’s angry with his mother: “ …I’m angry. All the time it was that one fear. That she didn’t love me.” P238 Deciding to stay in Wattle Beach; “ ..If I’m going to be happy anywhere, it’s here…...I know all the worst things about being Carl Matt now and it’s not so bad.” P241 After finding out that his mother was on her way back to them when she died. “Carl Matt opened up too, letting go and feeling a freedom flood into him … he knew at last that he was alive to feel it.”