Wildflower Movie Quotes
Jack Perkins
I hear Alice lives in the shed?
Ada Guthrie
What of it? She's a damn sight safer out there where she hardly sees him than in there within his reach.
🧡
👏
🥺
🤔
🥱
Ada Guthrie
My husband don't agree none. He says she devil-tached.
🧡
👏
🥺
🤔
🥱
Ellie Perkins
What do you say, Grammie? Will you tutor her?
Bessie Morgan
Tutor her? Child, I don't think my house can survive tutoring her....
🧡
👏
🥺
🤔
🥱
Sammy Perkins
What did I do that was so wrong? You were embarrassed too.
Ellie Perkins
I was embarrassed for her but I wasn't ashamed of no-one but you.
🧡
👏
🥺
🤔
🥱
Alice Guthrie
Why? Why am I not like everybody else? I want to be...
Sammy Perkins
What? What you want to be?
Alice Guthrie
I want to be a real girl...
🧡
👏
🥺
🤔
🥱
Bertha
That's great, Alice, What subjects are you studying?
Alice Guthrie
I learn... reading and writing... I write letter to Sammy! And I learn... I learn twestion marks and commies too.
Bertha
Really? Well, Sammy, did that letter have any "twestion marks" or "commies" in it?
🧡
👏
🥺
🤔
🥱
Alice Guthrie
Sammy, Ellie! Help...!
Sammy Perkins
That bastard beat her up!
🧡
👏
🥺
🤔
🥱
Alice Guthrie
I don't care, if everybody in the whole world laughs at my twestion marks and my commies.
🧡
👏
🥺
🤔
🥱
Alice Guthrie
You want me learnin', Granny Bessie, she doin' it. She say I doin' good. But boys and girls still laughin'.
Sammy Perkins
Alice, they're just stupid. You're doin' fine, thats the truth.
Alice Guthrie
No! It's not true!
Sammy Perkins
Yes, Alice, that's the truth!
Alice Guthrie
No, it's not the truth, Sammy! I learnin' readin' and writin'. Learnin' cookin' and washin' - I doin' it all for you! I doin' it all to be a real girl! But they still laugh and you still laugh! You don't write me back!
🧡
👏
🥺
🤔
🥱
Ellie Perkins
He said Mr Guthrie hangs dead birds up by the neck until they drop then he eats them raw like savages! Don't even gut them. They got a monster locked in the shed too and they feed him little children for breakfast.
Sammy Perkins
Uh-huh.
Ellie Perkins
I bet old man Guthrie's got the skins of two dead men hangin' in his barn.
Jack Perkins
You stay away from them Guthrie's! He'd just as soon shoot you as look at you. Don't you even think about trespassin' over there, you hear me girl?
🧡
👏
🥺
🤔
🥱
Church Girl
Whats a boy good for? Anyhow, that Bertha sure seems to know.
Lisa Mae
Yeah, she knows more than she should. Who cares?
Ellie Perkins
If you ask me, a boy ain't good for nothin' but totin' out the garbage.
🧡
👏
🥺
🤔
🥱
Sammy Perkins
Alice ain't like the rest of us. You want me to pretend she is? You want me to close my eyes and make like she says all the right words and does all the right things?
Ellie Perkins
When we started to teach Alice, we thought we could undo all them years that crazy man mashed her mind and beat her 'til she was numb and afraid to pay attention. Now I think you're near as bad as him.
🧡
👏
🥺
🤔
🥱
Ellie Perkins
Hey, Sammy, how come you like that Bertha anyhow? Lisa Mae says she got a bale of cotton wadded up in her chest.
Sammy Perkins
I like her 'cause she's pretty and funny, and for your information I know they aren't cotton.
Ellie Perkins
Sammy Perkins, you did not touch Bertha's bosoms!
Sammy Perkins
It's time you asked Granny about the birds and the bees, Miss flat chest.
🧡
👏
🥺
🤔
🥱
