Rachel Ward credited as playing...
Meggie Cleary
- Meggie Cleary: That dear and gentle God who has taken from me everyone that I've loved most in the world. One by one. Frank, and Hal... and Stuie... and my father. And you, of course. Always you. If God is merciful... left me no one else to grieve.
- Ralph de Bricassart: He is merciful, I know you can't see that now, but he is. He spared the rose. He sent the rain.
- Meggie Cleary: Oh Ralph... who sent the fire?
- Meggie Cleary: You complacent, conceited, self-centered *bastard*! *You* can't make love for toffee!
- Dane O'Neill: Mom, is this you? Oh, you were beautiful.
- Meggie Cleary: Were? Oh the cruelty of youth.
- Fiona 'Fee' Cleary: It was a lovely dress. Blue wasn't it?
- Meggie Cleary: No, Mum, yours was blue.
- Ralph de Bricassart: Meggie's dress was rose. "Ashes of Roses", it was called. And in it, she was the most beautiful thing any of us had ever seen.
- Ralph de Bricassart: How will we live without him?
- Meggie Cleary: We will. Your God gathers in the good ones... and leaves the living to those of us whom fail. Your greedy God! There *is* no peace with him!
- Meggie Cleary: The day that I first saw you at the Gilly station, you smiled at me, then you said my name. Then you touched me.
- [She kisses him]
- Meggie Cleary: And since that day, I have somehow known, though I never saw you again, that my last thought this side of the grave would be of you.
- [shrugs]
- Meggie Cleary: And there's nothing I can do to change it. Do you know how terrifying it is, that power you have over me?
- Meggie Cleary: Oh, go away! I can't bare to look at you anymore! And there's one thing you've forgotten about your precious roses, Ralph, they've got nasty *hooky* thorns!
- Meggie Cleary: As for Ralph, he'll never know Dane's his, unless you tell him. And if you do, I warn you, I'll be as merciful to you, as you've always been to me!
- Meggie Cleary: What kind of god would shut men out of paradise for loving women?
- Ralph de Bricassart: A god I still can't give up for you.
- Meggie Cleary: I know.