James Lee Quotes

″‘Don’t you talk to me that way,’ he says. ‘Don’t you question me. You don’t know anything about my life’.”

″‘Your mother’s home,’ he said, as if they couldn’t see her standing there in the doorway behind him.”

“Coming to her made him feel perfectly welcomed, perfectly at home, as he had never in his life felt before.”

“This little man, five-foot-nine at most and not even American, was going to teach them about cowboys?”

“You’re the kind of girl I should have married. ”

“What made something precious? Losing it and finding it.”

″ ‘I am disappointed.” Marilyn’s head snaps up. ‘l thought you were different.’ What she means is: I thought you were better than other men. I thought you wanted better than that. ”

″ The confident young man in his imagination dwindled to a nervous little boy. ”

“It’s not right, Marilyn. It’s not right. ”