Paul Edgecombe Quotes

“Please boss, don’t put that thing over my face, don’t put me in the dark. I’s afraid of the dark.”

“I’m rightly tired of the pain I hear and feel, boss. I’m tired of bein on the road, lonely as a robin in the rain. Not never havin no buddy to go on with or tell me where we’s comin from or goin to or why. I’m tired of people bein ugly to each other. It feels like pieces of glass in my head. I’m tired of all the times I’ve wanted to help and couldn’t. I’m tired of bein in the dark. Mostly it’s the pain. There’s too much. If I could end it, I would. But I can’t.”

“Sometimes, oh God, the Green Mile is so long.”

“What they were seeing was black.”

“Atonement was powerful; it was the lock on the door you closed against the past. ”

“I just can’t see God putting a gift like that in the hands of a man who would kill a child.”

“The wide corridor up the center of E Block was floored with linoleum the color of tired old limes, and so what was called the Last Mile at other prisons was called the Green Mile at Cold Mountain.”

“On the day of my judgment, when I stand before God, and He asks me why did I kill one of his true miracles, what am I gonna say? That it was my job? My job?”

“Appeals weren’t for the likes of John Coffey, not back then.”

“Percy wanted not just to kill the mouse but to squash it.”