“Pumpkin” quotes

“I'm feeling pain, Pumpkin, for the first time in my life. And now I know how it feels. It feels like everything inside me is shattered, like a broken mirror.”
Christina Ricci - Carolyn McDuffy

“- Robert Meary: I can't teach people to write poetry. It has to come from your experience... from your insides.
- Cici Pinkus: What do you do if everything inside you is ugly?
- Robert Meary: Your life may be ugly, kid, but a successful poem about it will not be ugly because the poem will illuminate and communicate the horror of your life to...” (continue)(continue reading)
Harry Lennix - Robert Meary
Melissa McCarthy - Cici Pinkus

“You've raped my son! Whore! Slut! You prostitute! Pedophile! Pumpkin will never understand what you've done to him!”

Brenda Blethyn - Judy Romanoff

“- Carolyn McDuffy: I'm afraid I'm falling in love but I don't want to. He's mentally retarded.
- Dr. Frederico Cruz: How retarded?
- Carolyn McDuffy: Retarded retarded.”
Christina Ricci - Carolyn McDuffy
Julio Oscar Mechoso - Dr. Frederico Cruz

“I didn't mean for any any of this to happen. But he's just so sweet... so pure. He understands what's good in me. No one else does. And, Mama, when he touches me... he's so gentle... so tender.”

Christina Ricci - Carolyn McDuffy

“- Carolyn McDuffy: Some people have this mystery about them that you can't get out of your head. Do you know what I mean?
- Chippy McDuffy: No dear, sounds terrible... is this person a boy?
- Carolyn McDuffy: But it's not romantic or anything.
- Chippy McDuffy: Well, I hope this mystery has nothing to do with this young man being from a...” (continue)(continue reading)
Christina Ricci - Carolyn McDuffy
Lisa Banes - Chippy McDuffy