Abigail Stanton quotes from When Calls the Heart

Abigail Stanton

Bill, what are you doing here?

Bill Avery

Making breakfast.

Abigail Stanton

With my pans and my eggs?

Bill Avery

Actually, they're our pans and our eggs.

Abigail Stanton

Excuse me?

Bill Avery

I'm your new partner.

Pastor Frank Hogan

You said that you would be someone to lean on, and I asked you to remember that, when the time came.

Abigail Stanton

Now the time has come.

Pastor Frank Hogan

And it's easier said than done.

Abigail Stanton

Before you ask, no, I haven't seen Frank since this morning.

Elizabeth Thatcher

I didn't ask.

Abigail Stanton

I don't know what I'd say to him. I don't know what I want him to say to me!

Elizabeth Thatcher

May I ask you what you're feeling?

Abigail Stanton

I don't know, so there's no reason to tell me not to bottle things up.

Elizabeth Thatcher

Then I won't.

Abigail Stanton

I could use a little, "You're strong, you'll get through this!"

Elizabeth Thatcher

You are the strongest woman I've ever met, Abigail. You'll get through this.

Abigail Stanton

You always know just what to say.

Abigail Stanton

I wish I could write. You're so talented.

Elizabeth Thatcher

You have to say that because you're my friend.

Abigail Stanton

Because you're my talented friend.

Abigail Stanton

Do you know why you're so special to me? Because God put you in my life for a reason....I need you just as much as you need me. And that's why we found each other.

Cody Hastings

Like the ugly duckling found his real family?

Abigail Stanton

Just like that.

Abigail Stanton

You know, you're starting to sound a lot like Rose--

Elizabeth Thatcher

Bite your tongue!

Lee's place is much too small for both of us!

Yeah. Apparently I am now building Rosemary the largest house in town.

Abigail Stanton

Well, where will you stay in the meantime?

Elizabeth Thatcher

Right next door. To me.

We're neighbors!

Abigail Stanton

You don't think I can handle it?

Bill Avery

I didn't say that.

Abigail Stanton

Well then what are you saying?

Bill Avery

I'm just saying that it's a big job for a--

Abigail Stanton

For a what?

Bill Avery

Well for a--for a busy businesswoman. And mother. Like yourself. Just a lot of responsibility.

Abigail Stanton

I see. But since you're my business partner, I guess you'd have no problem running the cafe if I take over as mayor for awhile. Unless, of course, it's too much responsibility. For you.

Bill Avery

Bring on the apron!

Abigail Stanton

I just wish I had more time to spend with Cody.

Elizabeth Thatcher

Well, if you don't have a gift for him yet, I happen to know he really wants a dog.

Abigail Stanton

[pause] He's getting a baseball cap.

A woman mayor. That's different.

Abigail Stanton

Well, we like to be different here.

Abigail Stanton

Did you complain about these things to Henry Gowen?

He wouldn't listen! But I knew you would understand.

Abigail Stanton

Aren't there enough readers to go around?

Elizabeth Thatcher

No, and the ones we do have are falling apart.

That letter is a forgery, Elizabeth. We're gonna prove it, and you're gonna be back in that classroom in no time. I promise.

Elizabeth Thatcher

It isn't a forgery, Jack. I know Thomas Higgins.

Abigail Stanton

You'd never bribe anyone.

Elizabeth Thatcher

No, and I didn't! But when my mother heard Higgins was sending me west, she tried to use money and influence to keep me in Hamilton.

But you didn't take the job in Hamilton.

Elizabeth Thatcher

No. I turned it down to come here.

Abigail Stanton

Then why did Higgins write the letter?

Elizabeth Thatcher

Revenge.

Revenge?! For what?

Elizabeth Thatcher

When I met with Thomas Higgins he made...advances.

Abigail Stanton

Oh, Elizabeth!

Elizabeth Thatcher

I turned him down.

Abigail Stanton

Of course you did.

And that made him angry.

Elizabeth Thatcher

I just never realized how much. He must have written the letter as soon as I started working here.

Abigail Stanton

So you didn't know about it until now?

Elizabeth Thatcher

Right. But now that the letter has come to light, I won't be able to teach anymore. Not in Hope Valley, not anywhere.

Abigail Stanton

Then you'll visit Mr. Thomas Higgins and get him to tell the truth.

I have to take the Tate boys to Union City for trial. They've escaped before so I can't take any chances. But we are gonna go to Cape Fullerton as soon as I get back.

Elizabeth Thatcher

That's very sweet of you, Jack. But I have to leave as soon as I can.

I'll be back at the end of the week.

Elizabeth Thatcher

No, this is my reputation and my career. My students are too important to me. It can't wait.

Abigail Stanton

What if you're not the only one? What if there's someone else who's scared to speak up like you were?

Elizabeth Thatcher

Wouldn't they have said something by now?

Abigail Stanton

You didn't.

Elizabeth Thatcher

I was embarrassed, I didn't want to tell anyone!

Abigail Stanton

I still can't believe your friend denied anything ever happened.

Elizabeth Thatcher

Worse than that, she was actually angry I asked. She's just scared Abigail. And to be honest, I can't blame her.