Splendor in the Grass Quotes

[first lines]

Wilma Dean: Bud...

Bud: Deanie, please...

Wilma Dean: Bud, I'm afraid. Oh, Bud... don't, Bud.

Bud: Deanie...

Wilma Dean: No... we mustn't, Bud... no... no...

[he gets out of the car]

Wilma Dean: Bud, don't be mad.

Bud: I better take you home.

[last lines]

Wilma Dean: [voiceover] Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower, we will grieve not; rather find strength in what remains behind.

Wilma Dean: Didn't you ever feel that way about Dad?

Mrs. Loomis: Your father never laid a hand on me until we were married. Then I... I just gave in because a wife has to. A woman doesn't enjoy those things the way a man does. She just lets her husband come near her in order to have children.

Bud: Deanie, you're a nice girl.

Wilma Dean: I'm not. I'm not a nice girl.

Miss Metcalf: Now, what do you think the poet means by this line ? Deanie Loomis.

Wilma Dean: I'm sorry, Miss Metcalf. I... I didn't hear the question.

Miss Metcalf: Well, I know it's Spring, Deanie, but I must ask you to pay more attention. I quoted some lines from Wordsworth's Ode on Intimations of Immortality, Deanie. Did you hear them ?

Wilma Dean: I'm afraid not Miss Metcalf.

Miss Metcalf: Well, then I must ask to turn your text to page 380...

Wilma Dean: Yes.

Miss Metcalf: You read the lines to me. Stand, please.

Wilma Dean: "Though nothing can bring back the hour/Of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower/We will grieve not. Rather find/Strengh in what remains behind..."

Miss Metcalf: Now, perhaps you can tell me exactly what the poet means by such expressions as "Splendor in the grass" and "Glory in the Flower".

Wilma Dean: Well, I think it have some...

Miss Metcalf: Yes ?

Wilma Dean: Well, when we're young, we looks at thing very idealistically I guess. And I think Woodsworth means that... that when we're grow-up... then, we have to... forget the ideals of youth... and find strength... Miss Metcalf, may I please be...?

Bud: Hi, sweetheart.

Wilma Dean: I suppose you wish I was more like Juanita Howard, don't you ?

Bud: What ?

Wilma Dean: I saw the way you were looking at her. I think she's disgraceful. Well, she stand there waiting for the...

Bud: Now wait a minute, wait a minute. There is no reason in the world why I shouldn't see her.

Wilma Dean: Then why were you speaking to her...

Bud: What ? You think I'm not suppose to notice her ? It's that what you expect out of me ? I'm not even suppose to know girls like that exist, eh ?

Wilma Dean: Bud, I'm sorry. I'm sorry Bud, honest.

Bud: All right, you're sorry.

Wilma Dean: Oh Bud, please don't be mad !

Bud: I'm not mad, Deanie.

Wilma Dean: Oh Bud, Bud, I just can't stand when you're mad at me...

Bud: Oh, Deanie I don't know the matter with me lately. I always lose my temper. You're the only girl in the world for me, don't you know that, Deanie ?

Wilma Dean: Is it so terrible to have those feelings about a boy?

Mrs. Loomis: No nice girl does.

Ginny Stamper: I hate it here! I'm a freak in this town. Everybody stares at me on the street like I was something out of a carnival!

Ace Stamper: That's cuz ya peroxide your hair and paint your face up like an Indian!