Forney Hull Quotes in Where the Heart Is (2000)

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: 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]

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: 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: 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: 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?

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?

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.