The Brides of Dracula - Confrontation of Fear and Purpose
Baroness Meinster:
Who is it that is not afraid?
Dr. J. Van Helsing:
Only God has no fear.
Baroness Meinster:
Why have you come here?
Dr. J. Van Helsing:
To find your son.
Baroness Meinster:
Then you know who I am?
Dr. J. Van Helsing:
I know who you were.
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The Brides of Dracula - A Mother's Cruel Choice Revealed
Marianne Danielle:
Then that poor prisoner, in the tower. He is your son?
Baroness Meinster:
He was my son. Now he is only... a beast of the night.
Marianne Danielle: [gasps]
You locked him away? Your own son? Because he is... unholy? Oh, this I cannot understand. How can you be so cruel?
Baroness Meinster:
You are judging me, child. Sleep before you pass sentence.
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Becket - Conflict Between Loyalty and Betrayal
King Henry II:
Becket is my enemy. But in the human balance, traitor that he is and naked as his mother made him, he's worth a hundred of you, madam, with your crown and your jewels and your august uncle, the Emperor, into the bargain. I'm forced to fight him now and crush him, but at least he gave me with open hands everything that is at all good in me. And you have never given me anything but your carping mediocrity and your everlasting obsession with your puny little person and what you thought was due to it. That is why I forbid you to smile while Becket is being destroyed.
Eleanor of Aquitaine:
I gave you my youth. Gave you your children.
King Henry II: [briefly grieves]
I don't LIKE my children! And as for your youth, that withered flower, pressed between the pages of a hymn book since you were twelve years old with its watery blood and stale insipid scent, you can bid farewell to that without a tear. Your body was a empty desert, madam, that duty forced me to wander in alone. But you have never been a wife to me! And Becket was my friend. Red-blooded, generous and full of strength. Oh, my Thomas.
Empress Matilda:
And I. I have given you nothing, I suppose.
King Henry II:
Life. Yes. Thank you. But after that, I never saw you except in a passageway on your way to a ball in your crown and ermine mantle ten minutes before official ceremonies, when you were forced to tolerate my presence. NO! No one on this Earth has ever loved me! Except Becket.
Empress Matilda:
Call him back, then. Absolve him if he loves you. Give him back his power. But do something.
King Henry II:
I am. I'm learning to be alone.
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Great Expectations - Pip's Reflection on His Arrival at Satis House
Pip:
When you first caused me to be brought here, Miss Havisham, I suppose I came here as any other chance boy might have, as a kind of servant, to gratify a want or a whim, and to be paid for it.
Miss Havisham:
Aye, Pip, you did.
Pip:
And that Mr Jaggers was...
Miss Havisham:
Mr Jaggers had nothing to do with it. His being my lawyer and the lawyer of your patron was a coincidence. He holds the same relation towards numbers of people.
Pip:
But when I fell into the mistake I have so long remained in, at least you led me on.
Miss Havisham:
Yes. I let you go on.
Pip:
Was that kind?
Miss Havisham:
Who am I, for heaven's sake, that I should be kind! Well, well, well! What else?
Pip:
Estella, I should have said this sooner but for my long mistake, which led me to believe that Miss Havisham meant us for one another. When I felt I couldn't tell you of my feelings while you were not free to choose for yourself. But now I have to go away and I must say it before I go. I love you, Estella. I've loved you ever since I first saw you in this house.
Estella:
Pip, I've tried to warn you not to love me, but you thought I didn't mean it.
Pip:
Isn't it true that Bentley Drummle is in town here and pursuing you?
Estella:
Quite true.
Pip:
That you encourage him, and ride out with him, and that he dines with you this very day.
Estella:
Quite true.
Pip:
How can you fling yourself at such a man?
Estella:
Should I rather fling myself at you, Pip, who would sense at once that I bring nothing to you?
Pip:
But you cannot love him, Estella!
Estella:
What have I always told you? Do you still think in spite of it that I don't mean what I say?
Pip:
Estella, … you … you would never marry him?
Estella: [long silence — he turns, she walks over to him]
Why not tell you the truth? I am going to be married to him. … Come, Pip. Don't be afraid of my being a blessing to him. I shall not be that. Here is my hand. Let us part on this. You'll get me out of your thoughts in a week.
Miss Havisham:
What have I done? What have I done?
Pip:
If you mean what have you done to me, Miss Havisham, let me answer. Estella has been part of my existence ever since I first came here, the rough, common boy whose heart she wounded even then. She has been the embodiment of every graceful fancy my mind has ever known. To the last hour of my life she cannot choose but to remain part of my character, part of the little good in me, part of the evil. But you may dismiss me from your mind and conscience, but Estella is a different case. And if you can ever undo any scrap of what you've done amiss, in keeping part of her right nature away from her, it will be better to do that than to bemoan the past through a hundred years.
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Great Expectations - Anticipating a Meeting with Beauty
Miss Havisham:
Is she beautiful, graceful, well-grown? Do you admire her, Pip?
Pip:
Everyone must who sees her.
Miss Havisham:
She is going to London soon and you shall meet her there.
Pip:
I shall be the happiest man in London, Miss Havisham.
Miss Havisham:
Love her. If she favours you, love her. If she tears your heart to pieces, love her. I adopted her to be loved.
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Great Expectations - Judgment and Silence Among Friends
Estella:
He calls the knaves jacks, this boy! And what coarse hands he has! You stupid, clumsy labouring boy!
Miss Havisham:
She says many hard things of you, but you say nothing of her. What do you think of her?
Pip:
I don't like to say.
Miss Havisham:
Tell me... in my ear.
Pip:
I think she is very proud.
Miss Havisham:
Anything else?
Pip:
I think she is very pretty.
Miss Havisham:
Anything else?
Pip:
I think she is very insulting.
Miss Havisham:
Anything else?
Pip:
I think I should like to go home now.
Miss Havisham:
And never see her again, though she is so pretty?
Pip:
I'm not sure that I wouldn't like to see her again, but I think I'd like to go home now.
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Great Expectations - Miss Havisham's Invitation to Intimacy
Miss Havisham:
Come close. Look at me. You're not afraid of a woman who has never seen the sun since you were born?
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