Quote of the Day: 04/24/10

From one of my favorite movies, Where The Heart Is,' there is a powerful scene between Novalee and Lexie where Lexie comes to terms with the man who sexually molested her child and physically beat her. She asks Novalee the following and Novalee replies:

Quote :

Lexie:
How did he find me,
Novalee ?
How do men like that
find my kids ?
How'd he know he could do
such a thing to us ?
He had to be lookin'.
He was lookin' for women
like me...
who are alone with children...
and women who are stupid.
And they saw through him.
They could tell he was evil.
And all I saw was a Buick.

Oh, God.
What am I gonna tell
my babies ?


What am I gonna say...
to Brownie and Praline when they ask me
why this happened to them ?
[ Sobbing ]
What am I supposed to say, Novalee ?



Novalee:[ Sighs ]

You tell them--
you tell them that our-- our lives can
change with every breath we take.
We both know that.

And you tell them
to let go of what's gone.
'Cause men like Roger Brisco
never win.

And tell them to hold on
like hell to what they've got--
each other and a mother
who would die for them...

and almost did.


You tell them
we've all got meanness in us.
But we've got good in us too.



And the only thing
worth livin' for is the good.
And that is why we've got
to make sure to pass it on.