James Lee Quotes

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

“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. ”

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

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

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

“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. ”

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