- Jackie du Pré: [mid-recital] Excuse me ladies and gentlemen, I have broken my A string
- [leaves stage]
- Jackie du Pré: at least it wasn't my G string.
- Hilary: If you think being an ordinary person is any easier than being an extraordinary one, you're wrong.
- Hilary: I've given you everything. Every since we were little, everything you've asked for I've said yes. Jackie listen. Jackie... Jackie... I'm sorry.
- Hilary: When you love someone, you find that pictures of them stay with you all the time in your heart. Pictures of the way you think of them when you think of them.
- Hilary: When I was but 13 or so, I went into a golden land. Cimbarozo, Cotopaxi took me by the hand. Over the Orinoco , across the blazing Kalahari desert , through the untamed grasslands of the veldt, over the steppes and home.