Lexie Coop Quotes in Where the Heart Is (2000)

Orderly: Lexie, one of your kids is on the phone.

Lexie Coop: Which one?

Orderly: Oh, I don't know. Pez? Twinkie? One of 'em.

Lexie Coop: This old gypsy woman once told me that if you jump backwards nine times before the sun come up you won't be pregnant. Well, I jumped so far I had to take a bus back and then I had twins.

Lexie Coop: Americus? What kind of a name is Americus?

Novalee Nation: I wanted her to have a strong name.

Lexie Coop: Well, I guess I shouldn't talk. I named my kids after snack foods: Brownie, Praline, Cherry and Baby Ruth.

Lexie Coop: Honey, I know that your mother walked out on you and what that butthole Willie Jack did. But that is what makes them trash, not you.

Lexie Coop: He told you he loved you, and you didn't say anything?

Novalee Nation: I'm a dope. I'm such a dope, but I was scared. I was confused. The whole thing is just strange.

Lexie Coop: Honey, don't take this the wrong way, but Forney is strange.

Lexie Coop: My kids could turn this place into a dump before the door closes.

Lexie Coop: [driving up to the curb] Hi! Sorry honey but I made it.

Novalee Nation: Was it a big inconvenience?

Lexie Coop: Novalee, I have 5 children. Everything is an inconvenience. Mind if I drive real slow on the way home? I'd like to pretend it's a vacation.

Novalee Nation: I think I might be pregnant. You remember that guy I told you about last month?

Lexie Coop: The good-lookin' mechanic?

Novalee Nation: I don't know what's wrong with me. I didn't even want to be with him.

Lexie Coop: Didn't he use anything?

Novalee Nation: Just me.

Novalee Nation: At the end of each letter he writes, "Please tell your mother I extend my best wishes."

Lexie Coop: Hot.

Lexie Coop: Forney is in love with you! Tell me you don't know that.

Novalee Nation: It's just not like that with me and Forney.

Lexie Coop: I have seen him. He loves you. He loves the way you walk, he loves your hair, he loves everything about you.

Novalee Nation: Forney and me we're just not that way. Forney's different from us. He went to college. His family had money.

Lexie Coop: What are you trying to say? That you're not good enough for him?

Lexie Coop: Brownie! Brownie! Do not lasso your sister!

Lexie Coop: [eating Novalee's breakfast] I hope you're not hungry.