Where the Heart Is (2000)

James Frain: Forney Hull

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Quotes 

• Novalee Nation : It's too late, isn't it, Forney?

  Forney Hull : Too late for what?

  Novalee Nation : I lied to you, when you asked me if I loved you, and I said no. Remember?

  Forney Hull : Yes.

  Novalee Nation : I lied. It wasn't true, I-I love you. It's just I lied because I thought you deserved something better.

  Forney Hull : Something better than you? Novalee, there isn't anything better than you.

  [they kiss] 

• Americus : Forney, if you give a cow chocolate will you get chocolate milk?

  Forney Hull : Yeah. And if you spin a cow around real fast you'll get whipped cream.

  Americus : Wow! You know a lot.

  Forney Hull : Well, I work in the library.

• Novalee Nation : Do I look professional?

  Forney Hull : Well you know what'd help?

  Novalee Nation : What?

  Forney Hull : If you brought your camera

  Novalee Nation : SHIT!...

  [to Americus] 

  Novalee Nation : Mommy didn't say shit!

  Americus : Yes, she did.

• Forney Hull : Are you finding everything you need?

  Novalee Nation : I don't know what they're talking about. I have to look up every other word in the dictionary then I have to look up those words in the children's dictionary. Takes me a half hour to read a page.

  Forney Hull : Well maybe this is something that's hard to learn from books. I mean, it's photography.

  Novalee Nation : Hard for me, anyway.

• Forney Hull : Do you love me?

  Novalee Nation : You are the best friend I've ever had.

  Forney Hull : Just answer me.

  Novalee Nation : You delivered my baby.

  Forney Hull : Do you love me?

  Novalee Nation : No. No, Forney, I don't love you. Not that way.

• Forney Hull : Why would a man on a Harley steal a woman's pillows?

• Novalee Nation : I lied, Forney.

  Forney Hull : You lied? You didn't go to Tennessee?

• Forney Hull : Here!

  [throws books on the table] 

  Forney Hull : Look up Buckeye in the index.

  Novalee Nation : The what?

  Forney Hull : I'll start slower, these are called books. You still with me?

  Novalee Nation : Hey!

  Forney Hull : There. See, read.

  Novalee Nation : Leaf rot. Root damage. Night nitro.

  [struggling] 

  Novalee Nation : Night nitrogen defic... defic...

  Forney Hull : Deficiency! Keep reading.

• Novalee Nation : [uncertainly]  I'm looking for a book.

  Forney Hull : What kind of book?

  Novalee Nation : About... 'bout trees?

  Forney Hull : Trees?

  Novalee Nation : Yeah.

  [makes motion over her head to demonstrate] 

  Novalee Nation : You know.

  Forney Hull : Forestry? Environment? Agriculture? Botany? What do you want to know about trees?