Rachel Weisz credited as playing...
Hester Collyer
- Freddie Page: Let me give you a case: Jack loves Jill, Jill loves Jack. But Jack doesn't love Jill in the same way. Jack never asked to be loved.
- Hester Collyer: And what about Jill?
- Freddie Page: That's Jill's hard luck! I can't be bloody Romeo all the time!
- Collyer's Mother: Beware of passion, Hester. It always leads to something ugly.
- Hester Collyer: What would you replace it with?
- Collyer's Mother: A guarded enthusiasm. It's safer.
- Freddie Page: There is nothing wrong with my mind. FUBAR.
- Hester Collyer: What do you mean by that?
- Freddie Page: You're the clever one, you work it out.
- Hester Collyer: What the hell did you mean by that?
- Freddie Page: FUBAR, acronym, fucked up beyond all recognition.
- Hester Collyer: Lust isn't the whole of life, but Freddie is, you see, for me. The whole of life. And death. So, put a label on that, if you can.
- Freddie Page: Today, the letter, the suicide attempt? We're lethal to each other. You can't expect a bloke to go on after he's driven someone to suicide. Much as he loves her.
- Hester Collyer: Do you think that leaving me will drive me away from it?
- Freddie Page: That's a risk we'll both have to take.
- Hester Collyer: You're scaring me, Freddie.
- Freddie Page: It's on the level. I don't enjoy hurting you, I'm not a sadist. But it's on the level.
- Hester Collyer: Ah, the garden really is glorious! Even at this time of year.
- Collyer's Mother: Yes. It's my one, unalloyed pleasure. So much safer than people, don't you think?
- [first lines]
- Hester Collyer: [narrating] My darling Freddie. A moment ago I knew exactly what I wanted to say to you. I have run through this letter in my mind so very often and I wanted to compose something eloquent, but the words just don't seem to be there. I think that's because, this time, I really do want to die.