Joan of Arcadia (TV Series)

Death Be Not Whatever (2003)

Amber Tamblyn: Joan Girardi

Quotes 

• Cute Boy God : Remember me?

  Joan Girardi : Why all the familiar looks? Doing the greatest hits, or are you getting a little pleased with yourself?

  Cute Boy God : You see me the way you want to see me, Joan. Like right now, you're mad at me... maybe you feel safer being mad at me when I look like this.

  Joan Girardi : You have a lot to answer for, buddy! No one asks to be born!... So we all get to die, and then everyone we love dies?

  Cute Boy God : Yeah.

  Joan Girardi : And... and that's good for you?

  Cute Boy God : Joan, there's nothing about death that I can say that would make sense to you.

  Joan Girardi : A lot of what happens here really sucks, so much for your... perfect system... Can you see me being really mad at you right now?

  Cute Boy God : Yes.

  Joan Girardi : Why does it have to be so hard?

  Cute Boy God : What specifically?

  Joan Girardi : Being alive, let's start there.

  Cute Boy God : You wish you weren't alive?

  Joan Girardi : No! I... I don't know. I wish... it didn't... hurt so much.

  Cute Boy God : It hurts because you feel it, Joan... because you're alive. You love people, that generates a lot of power, a lot of energy. The same kind of energy that binds atoms together, we've all seen what happens when you try to pry them apart.

  Joan Girardi : So, if I don't get attached to people then... it won't hurt so much?

  Cute Boy God : No, it's in your nature to get attached to people, I put that in the recipe. It's when you guys try to ignore that... when you try to go it alone, that's when it gets ugly. It's hell.

  Cute Boy God : It's Hell? Like the Hell?

• Joan Girardi : Why can't they make homeroom at a reasonable time? I mean, you're the chief of police. Can't you take care of it?

  Will Girardi : [sarcastic]  It's on the top of my list: investigate public school schedules.

• Joan Girardi : [seeing a news report about Will's police brutality case]  Whoa. Dad, you're not in trouble over this, are you?

  Will Girardi : I'm the chief of police. It's my job to be in trouble.

• Sylvia Tardio : He was up, wasn't he?

  Joan Girardi : Yeah, he was. I-I'm a... I'm a bad disciplinarian.

  Sylvia Tardio : It's okay, 'cause I'm in a good mood. I passed my latest exam - whoo! - and I just found out that my babysitter is coming back to town. Apparently, Hawaii was too humid for her hair.

  Joan Girardi : Oh. Okay.

  Sylvia Tardio : Yeah, so tomorrow will be your last day with Rocky.

  Joan Girardi : Oh.

  Sylvia Tardio : You went and got attached to him, didn't you? He has that way with people.