Larry McMurtry

Excuse me. It is after ten. Give my daughter the pain shot, please.

Well, please - it's, it's after ten. It's after ten. I don't see why she has to have this pain.

It's time for her shot! Do you understand? Do something! All she had to do is hold out until ten! And it's past ten! She's - in pain, my daughter's in pain! Give her the shot, do you understand me?

Do you have any reaction at all to my telling you I love you?

Would you like to come in?

Everything would have been just fine, you know, if you hadn't gotten drunk. I was... I... I just didn't want you to think I was like one of your other girls.

Garrett! What is it that makes you so insistent on shocking and insulting me? I mean, I really hate that way of talking. You must know this. Why do you do it?

Raising three children, working full-time *and* chasing women requires a lot more energy than you have. You know, one of the nicest qualities about you has always been that you recognized your weaknesses. *Don't* lose that quality now just when you need it the most!

Careful there. Those are worth more than you'll ever make in your lifetime.

You are not special enough to overcome a bad marriage.

He can't even do the simple things, like fail locally.

Not that it's any of your business… Oh, let's just leave it at that.

Grown women are prepared for life's little emergencies.

Come closer… come closer… come closer…

You both of you have beautiful eyes and your hair is too long. I mean, I don't care how long it gets in the back, but keep your bangs cut, OK, it's too long.

Just keep it short, alright?

Look, I'm sorry about this but I can't help it, and I can't talk to you for too long or I'll get real upset. I want you to make a lot of friends. And I want you to be real nice to the girls 'cause they're gonna be real important to you, I swear.

Ted, give me a kiss, come on. Tommy, you be sweet. Be sweet. And stop tryin' to pretend like you hate me. I mean, it's silly.

I know you like me. I know it. For the last year or two, you've been pretending like you hate me. I love you very much. I love you as much as I love anybody, as much as I love myself. And in a few years when I haven't been around to be on your tail about something or irritating you, you could... remember that time that I bought you the baseball glove when you thought we were too broke. You know? Or when I read you those stories? Or when I let you goof off instead of mowing the lawn? Lots of things like that. And you're gonna realize that you love me. And maybe you're gonna feel badly, because you never told me. But don't - I know that you love me. So don't ever do that to yourself, all right?

Momma, that's the first time I stopped hugging first. I like that.

You don't know how lucky you are, you know. Everybody wants to go to Des Moines. People come from all over the world just to get one look at Des Moines before they die.

OK, you're allowed to say one mean thing to me a year. That'll do until you're 10.

I grew up with it my whole life. You can take it for a couple of minutes.

Some people say Des Moines is the best city in Iowa.

No, forget it, I'm not gonna make you feel better, I'm too mad.

I tell ya there… there were these two old guys ranched up together, down home. Earl and Rich. And they was the joke of town, even though they were pretty tough ol' birds. Anyway they… they found Earl dead in an irrigation ditch. Took a tire iron to 'im. Spurred him up, drug him 'round by his dick 'till it pulled off.

You ever get the feelin'… I don't know, er… when you're in town and… someone looks at you… suspicious, like he knows? And then you go out on the pavement and everyone's looking at you like they all know too?

Texas? Sure, maybe you can convince Alma to let you and Lureen adopt the girls! And we can just live together herdin' sheep. And it'll rain money from LD Newsome and… and whiskey will flow in the streams - Jack, that's real smart. Real smart.

Short story honey. Only 'bout three seconds I was on that bronc. Next thing I knew, I was flyin' through the air… only I wasn't no angel like you and Jenny here; didn't have no wings. And that's the story of my saddle bronc career.

Jack, I gotta work. I mean in them earlier days I just quit the job. You forget what it's like being broke all the time. You ever hear of child support? I'll tell you this, I can't quit this one, and I can't get the time off. It's hard enough getting this one. The trade off is August. You got a better idea?

You did once. You ever been to Mexico, Jack Twist? Because I heard what they got in Mexico for boys like you.

Well, why don't you? Why don't you just let me be? It's because of you Jack, that I'm like this! I'm nothin'… I'm nowhere…

Tell you what, we coulda had a good life together! Fuckin' real good life! Had us a place of our own. But you didn't want it, Ennis! So what we got now is Brokeback Mountain! Everything's built on that! That's all we got, boy, fuckin' all. So I hope you know that, even if you don't never know the rest! You count the damn few times we have been together in nearly twenty years and you measure the short fucking leash you keep me on - and then you ask me about Mexico and tell me you'll kill me for needing somethin' I don't hardly never get. You have no idea how bad it gets! I'm not you… I can't make it on a coupla high-altitude fucks once or twice a year! You are too much for me Ennis, you sonofawhoreson bitch! I wish I knew how to quit you.