Paul Edgecomb quotes

View Quote I guess sometimes the past just catches up with you, whether you want it to or not. Usually death row was called "The Last Mile". We called ours "The Green Mile" - the floor was the color of faded limes. We had the electric chair, "Old Sparky" we called it. Oh, I've lived a lot of years, Ellie, but 1935 - that takes the prize. That year I had the worst urinary infection of my life, and… that was… that was also the year of… John Coffey and… the two dead girls.

View Quote [Repeated line] What happens on the mile stays on the mile. Always has.

View Quote I've done some things in my life I'm not proud of, but this is the first time I've ever felt in real danger of hell.

View Quote A big man is ripping your ears off Percy. I'd do as he says.

View Quote [Edgecomb talks to Warden Moores about sadistic guard Percy.]

View Quote That man is mean and careless and stupid, and that's a bad combination in a place like this. Sooner or later, he's gonna get somebody hurt, or worse.

View Quote And you, Elaine. You'll die, too. And my curse… is knowing that I'll be there to see it. It's my torment, you see. It's my punishment for lettin' John Coffey ride the lightnin'. For killin' a miracle of God. … You'll be gone like all the others, and I'll have to stay. Oh, I'll die eventually — of that I'm sure. I have no illusions of immortality. But I will have wished for death… long before death finds me. In truth, I wish for it already.

View Quote We each owe a death — there are no exceptions — but, oh God, sometimes the Green Mile seems so long.

View Quote And I think about all of us. Walking our own green mile; each in our own time.