Senior Dr. Bennett: Did your father ever tell you about the day you were born? Will Bloom: A thousand times. He caught an uncatchable fish. Senior Dr. Bennett: Not that one. The real story. Did he ever tell you that? Will Bloom: No. Senior Dr. Bennet...
Amos Calloway: You were a big fish in a small pond, but this here is the ocean and your drownin'. Take my advice, go back to Puddleville; you'll be happy there.
Senior Ed Bloom: It's rude to talk about religion, you never know who you're gonna offend.
Jenny: I loved a man who could never love me back. I was living in a fairytale.
Will Bloom: You know about icebergs, dad? Senior Ed Bloom: Do I? I saw an iceberg once. They were hauling it down to Texas for drinking water. They didn't count on there being an elephant frozen inside. The wooly kind. A mammoth. Will Bloom: Dad! Sen...
Young Ed Bloom: Now I may not have much, but I have more determination then any man you're ever likely to meet.
Amos Calloway: Her favorite flower is daffodils Young Ed Bloom: Daffodils. [smiles]
Young Ed Bloom: I can't go back, I'm a human sacrifice.
Young Ed Bloom: This isn't how I die.
Young Ed Bloom: Your last name is different. You married. Jenny: I was 18, he was 28. Turns out it was a big difference.
Senior Ed Bloom: Tell me how it happens. Will Bloom: How what happens? Senior Ed Bloom: How I go. Will Bloom: You mean you saw in the Eye? I dunno that story, Dad, you never told it to me.
Young Jenny: Promise me you'll come back Young Ed Bloom: I promise. Someday. When I'm really supposed to.
Will Bloom: [to Ed] You're like Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny combined - just as charming, and just as fake.
Will Bloom: Church people drive too slow.
[talking about the witch] Zacky Price (Age 10): She'll make soap out of you. That's what she does. She makes soap out of people.
Will Bloom: Unbelievable. Senior Ed Bloom: The story of my life.
Will Bloom: A man tells so many stories, that he becomes the stories. They live on after him, and in that way he becomes immortal.
Karl: Friend, what happened to your shoes? Young Ed Bloom: [Looking down at his feet] They kinda got ahead of me.
