— Do you ever dream, Forrest, about who you're gonna be?
— Who I'm gonna be?
— Yeah.
— Aren't I going to be me?
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— Have you ever been with a girl, Forrest?
— I sit next to them in my Home Economics class all the time.
Listen, you promise me something, okay? Just, if you're ever in trouble, don't try to be brave. You just run, okay? Just run away.
— His name's Forrest.
— Like me.
— I named him after his daddy.
— He got a daddy named Forrest, too?
— You're his daddy, Forrest.
Explanation:
Ginny shows her son to Forrest.
— 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 was so beautiful.
— I wish I could've been there with you.
— You were.
