A Summer Place (1959)

Dorothy McGuire: Sylvia Hunter

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• Sylvia Hunter : [to Helen Jorgenson]  You seem to have an infinite capacity for hurt. First you try to destroy your daughter, and now our son.

• Sylvia Hunter : We live in a glass house - we're not throwing any stones.

• Sylvia Hunter : I'm perfectly willing to come to you whenever you want.

  Ken Jorgenson : All summer?

  Sylvia Hunter : All summer.

  Ken Jorgenson : What about the winter? All the winters... all our lives?

• Ken Jorgenson : What's it like being stuck out here all winter?

  Sylvia Hunter : Oh... it's quite lovely after the first snow.

  Ken Jorgenson : And after the blizzard starts?

  [uncomfortable pause] 

  Ken Jorgenson : You've avoided me ever since I arrived, Sylvia. Why? Can't we talk a moment?

  Sylvia Hunter : What about?

  Ken Jorgenson : You... me... Bart. How are things between you?

  Sylvia Hunter : We, ah, made a life. I guess we all adjust ourselves, don't we?

  Ken Jorgenson : I have never been able to. All through these years when I dreamed to have you wrapped up in them. I tried forgetting them. I even tried to imagine that you had gone fat and ugly and saggy.

  Sylvia Hunter : [laughs]  Is that why you came back? To find out? To see?

  Ken Jorgenson : I came back because I had to.

• Sylvia Hunter : He gave me a hope I thought was gone.

  Bart Hunter : [intoxicated]  A hope for what?

  Sylvia Hunter : Happiness.

• Sylvia Hunter : We've spoiled two lives. And now we're paying for it.

  Ken Jorgenson : For the rest of our lives?