18 quotes
Good people can't out-think evil, 'cause evil think of things good folks can't think of. Can't enter your head what evil do.
Homebody (1998)
That's love too. It ain't sex, and maybe that's too bad, but you know, Cindy, when a man and a woman care for each other, that doesn't always mean they have to sleep together or live together.
Homebody (1998)
How could you tell, when utter honesty and cynical manipulation would each account completely for the things she said and did?
Homebody (1998)
Why do you bother asking, when you know the answer and you also know that you don't intend to believe it?
Homebody (1998)
Maybe she just wanted to be the one to decide when things happened between them. Then again, what women didn't want to decide that?
Homebody (1998)
He was wild the way a mistreated dog becomes wild, not because it loves freedom, but because it has lost trust.
Homebody (1998)
She got out of the car in a smooth motion that [he] found attractive precisely because it did not seem designed to make men watch her do it.
Homebody (1998)
She never seemed to get near the edge. She lived on other people's edges. And when they fell off, she'd admire how pretty they looked as they fell.
Homebody (1998)
You aren't the kind of guy who takes the law into his own hands. You left the law in other hands and it screwed you over pretty badly.
Homebody (1998)
We're both damaged property, I guess.
Plenty of time for renovation.
Homebody (1998)
Knowing was better than not knowing. But not by much.
Homebody (1998)
I'm nobody's child.
You're mine now. Not my child, but mine, to miss you when you go, to look out for you, to hope you'll be careful.
Homebody (1998)
You as stupid as they come. Of course, I say this with your best interests at heart. Most people are stupid. I don't hold it against them.
Homebody (1998)
She going to be free now. She can go home to Jesus.
Call me selfish, but I wanted her to go home with me.
Homebody (1998)
Something had been given back to him. And because [she] had been a part of it, there was something between them now. A bond of loss, if loss could bind.
Homebody (1998)
This man, though, was of that rare type that knew what he wanted but didn't want anything badly enough to demand it or beg for it or hurt anyone else in the process of getting it.
Homebody (1998)
We're not a family. We're the opposite of a family. We're people so lonely that when we're together we make a black hole of loneliness and everything else gets sucked down into it and is never seen again.
Homebody (1998)
That was the most terrible thing that a woman could [??] to a decent man: look vulnerable and ask him for mercy. If he refused her he'd be denying all his instincts as a provider and protector.
Homebody (1998)