How we cite our quotes: All quotations are from Brokeback Mountain.
Quote #7
JACK: Tell you what, we coulda had a good life together, f***in' real good life, had us a place of our own. But you didn't want it, Ennis! So what we got now is Brokeback Mountain. Everything's built on that. That's all we got, boy, f***in' all, so I hope you know that if you don't never know the rest.
Jack is a romantic, and Ennis is too practical to even have hopes and dreams. They aren't a good match. A romantic and a realist is like a hot air balloon falling in love with an elephant. One will drag the other down.
Quote #8
JACK'S DAD: Tell you what, I know where Brokeback Mountain is. Thought he was too goddamn special to be buried in the family plot. Jack used to say, "Ennis Del Mar," he used to say, "I'm gonna bring him up here one of these days and we'll lick this damn ranch into shape." Had some half-baked notion the two of you was gonna move up here, build a cabin, help run the place. Then this spring he got another fella gonna come up here with him, build a place, help run the ranch, some ranch neighbor of his from down in Texas. Gonna split up with his wife and come back here. So he says. But like most of Jack's ideas, it never come to pass.
Jack's dad talks a lot. Jack's dad is also a jerk. He probably wouldn't be like this if Jack were having these dreams of settling down with a woman. It's merely the fact that Jack wants to settle down with a man that makes Jack's dad act this way.