My Name Is Leon Quotes
"No one has to tell Leon that this is a special moment."
"You can call her Carol if you like, when you can talk."
"You’ll be all right, Leon. You will be all right."
"Two boys. I’ve got two beautiful, beautiful boys."
"Isn’t he lovely, Leon? You be good, all right?"
"It’s not like he’s thick. He’s grieving, if you ask me."
"You will be all right, Leon. You will be all right."
"And one day, you will see your brother again."
"You stay here with your Auntie Maureen, love."
"You will be all right and that, mister, is a promise."
"You can't build muscles on a boy, neither should you. A little light work doesn't hurt but no vigorous bodybuilding. Not yet."
"Responsibility never is. What does responsibility mean? When you're in charge of something. And it means you have to look after something and it's always there in your mind."
"Pine, I'm afraid. Just pine. It's too soft but then I'm old now."
"You shit on someone else's seat or find another way to sort things out."
"He wasn’t looking. My fault. Always my fault. Always will be my fault. Forever and ever. Amen."
"You have to weed it and plant some seeds and water them. You're in charge of them. Do you understand? It's hard work."
"If only there was some water. He’s calling out but his throat is cracked and sore and every time he opens his mouth someone says no."
"I think you’ve got the flu, that’s all. Won’t kill you."
"Home is where you live, where you sleep, where you eat, where people look after you."
"I used to use walnut or mahogany or ziricote. I had some skill, used to have some skill."
"I don’t know if you’ve any idea what I’m going on about, so I’ll say it nice and simple. We get along."
"I don’t care. No one cares about me. No one cares about my brother. I’ve got a baby as well. He’s my baby. He’s a real baby, not a wooden baby. But no one cares about that."
"We are not a warrior. We have dignity and worth."
"I’m in charge now. And I don’t have to listen. I don’t have to take it easy."
"No one listens to me so I won’t listen to them."
"I can look after myself. And I can look after my brother. I’ve done it before."
"Kids have foster parents, Leon, not adults. I don’t need a foster family."
"She smells of cigarettes and the house they used to live in where Leon had to leave some of his toys."
"He’s too old for them now but he still wants them, just to see if they are like he remembers."
"She doesn’t speak but she stops dead. She seems to go from hard to soft without moving a muscle."
"As it melts, he presses his tongue against the molar at the back and the pain becomes nice pain."
"You are not going anywhere," she says and she says it slowly, like he’s five years old.
"You’re likely to jump to conclusions. Know what that means? Being wrong."
"I’ve made arrangements with the Social. I’ve been working on this for weeks but I didn’t want to tell you until it was official."
"This isn’t the whole of your life, love. This is a bit of your life."
"It’s strange to think that this little black bean will grow up to be a big plant and that plant will have its own seeds to make another plant."