The Best Jenny Curran Quotes

Jenny: [hearing that Forrest is going to Vietnam] Listen, you promise me something, OK? Just if you're ever in trouble, don't be brave. You just run, OK? Just run away.

Forrest: Will you marry me?
[Jenny turns and looks at him]
Forrest: I'd make a good husband, Jenny.
Jenny: You would, Forrest.
Forrest: ...But you won't marry me.
Jenny: [sadly] ... You don't wanna marry me.
Forrest: Why don't you love me, Jenny?
[Jenny says nothing]
Forrest: I'm not a smart man... but I know what love is.

[Jenny has told Forrest that she has an incurable disease, and the doctors don't know what to do]
Forrest: You could come home with me, to my house in Greenbow, Jenny. You and little Forrest. I'll take care of you if you're sick.
Jenny: Will you marry me, Forrest?
Forrest: [long pause] Okay.

Jenny: Do you ever dream, Forrest, about who you're gonna be?
Forrest: Who I'm gonna be?
Jenny: Yeah.
Forrest: Aren't-aren't I going to be me?

Jenny: His name's Forrest.
Forrest: Like me.
Jenny: I named him after his daddy.
Forrest: He got a daddy named Forrest, too?
Jenny: You're his daddy, Forrest.

Jenny: Have you ever been with a girl, Forrest?
Forrest: [nervously] I sit next to them in my Home Economics class all the time.

Jenny: Why are you so good to me?
Forrest: You're my girl!
Jenny: [pause] I'll always be your girl.

Jenny: Were you scared in Vietnam?
Forrest: Yes. Well, I-I don't know. Sometimes it would stop raining long enough for the stars to come out... and then it was nice. It was like just before the sun goes to bed down on the bayou. There was always a million sparkles on the water... like that mountain lake. It was so clear, Jenny, it looked like there were two skies one on top of the other. And then in the desert, when the sun comes up, I couldn't tell where heaven stopped and the earth began. It's so beautiful.
Jenny: I wish I could've been there with you.
Forrest: You were.

[when the bullies from school were chasing him]
Jenny: Run, Forrest! Run!