110 Quotes by Peter Hedges

She doesn't acknowledge Tucker, and there's no thank you for the cigarettes. She says a person shows their gratitude by action, not by words. So I guess that means she thanks me by smoking every cigarette in every pack.

He loves to hide, but only if you take the time to find him. And while I suspect that's true for most people, only a retard or a kid would admit it.

He sees me through the glass. We both nod like we give a small shit about each other.

My brother's costume is the exception. He looks like an American. In fact, he behaves like one. When he tried to pick up the first kid he knocked down, he smashed into several others, it snowballed, chaos ensued. My brother very much resembled America today in pretty much all things.

I was fine till the finger, I say to myself, as I shift to reverse. You don't flip off Gilbert Grape. Let that be known.

Wait a minute, I’m thinking, was this another one of those conversations where what is meant and what is being said are not the same thing?

How can you kill a man who’d already been dead for years?

A man who works all day, every day and loves each apple he uncrates, who cherishes each can of soup – a man like that surely puts us all to shame.

She loves me-she just doesn’t know it yet.