Bob Rueland Quotes in Return to Me (2000)

Bob Rueland: I miss Elizabeth. I'll always miss her. But I ache for Grace.

Bob Rueland: Would you go out with me?

Grace Briggs: Yes?

Bob Rueland: Is that a question?

Grace Briggs: No, it's a yes. Yes.

Bob Rueland: Tomorrow night?

Grace Briggs: Yes.

Bob Rueland: Eight o'clock?

Grace Briggs: Yes.

Bob Rueland: Pick you up here?

Grace Briggs: Yes.

Bob Rueland: My, you're a very difficult woman.

Bob Rueland: Elizabeth and I were married by the time we were twenty and we'd been going out since we were fifteen so this may sound a bit juvenile but... can I hold your hand?

Bob Rueland: [is covered in his wife's blood] She won't be coming home

[Breaks into sobs]

Bob Rueland: [lying to avoid going out] Sorry, Charlie. I think it's something I ate, you know? I think I'm just going to stay home, take it easy. What am I doing right now? I'm watching the Cubs game. What's the score?

[fumbles frantically for the remote, which doesn't work; gives up]

Bob Rueland: Uh, the Cubs are losing.

[Grace and Bob are on top of a building looking down at the city]

Grace Briggs: Wow, this is incredible. We can see all this because we're standing on something you built.

Bob Rueland: I had help.

Grace Briggs: [after accidentally slapping Bob for brushing her chest] Oh! I'm so sorry! I'm re... oh... Did you see anything?

Bob Rueland: [rubbing his cheek] I wasn't looking.

Grace Briggs: No, no, I know, but it's because I had a heart... I had a heart... I had a heartwarming dream about you.

Bob Rueland: Ugh! Must have a been a nightmare.

Grace Briggs: No. I mean, you were very...

Bob Rueland: Scary?

Grace Briggs: Sexy.

Bob Rueland: [grins] You had a sex dream about me?

Grace Briggs: No! I didn't have... I didn't have a sex dream about you. I just met you, I don't even know you. I'm really... sorry...

[kisses Bob]

Charlie Johnson: Come on, let's go get a beer.

Bob Rueland: No thanks.

Charlie Johnson: Well, if not tonight, Friday night, because I have someone for you.

Bob Rueland: No, Charlie, no.

Charlie Johnson: Come on, she's smart, she has a great body, intelligent, great body... You gotta start going out! She's really great, her cat was a patient of mine!

Bob Rueland: I'm a dog person.

Bob Rueland: [covering flowers in the backyard with Grace] All of these plants in the middle of the city, it's like

[beat]

Bob Rueland: a garden.