Where the Heart Is (2000)
James Frain: Forney Hull
Photos
Quotes
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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]
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Forney Hull : Why would a man on a Harley steal a woman's pillows?
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Novalee Nation : I lied, Forney.
Forney Hull : You lied? You didn't go to Tennessee?
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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.
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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?