A Room with a View (1985)
Helena Bonham Carter: Lucy Honeychurch, Miss Bartlett's cousin and charge
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Quotes
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Lucy Honeychurch : Mother is calling, I have got to go. They trust me.
Mr. Emerson : Why should they, when you deceived everyone, including yourself?
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Charlotte Bartlett : I shall never forgive myself.
Lucy Honeychurch : You always say that, Charlotte, but you always do forgive yourself.
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Lucy Honeychurch : Mother doesn't like me playing Beethoven. She says I'm always peevish afterwards.
Reverend Beebe : Naturally one would be... stirred up.
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Lucy Honeychurch : He has misbehaved from the first. In fact, he has behaved abominably.
Mr. Emerson : Not abominably. He only tried when he should not have tried.
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Mr. Emerson : You love George. You love the boy body and soul, as he loves you.
Lucy Honeychurch : [crying] But of course I do. What did you all think?
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Cecil Vyse : You don't love me, evidently. I dare say you're right not to, but... it would help a little, hurt a little less, if I knew why.
Lucy Honeychurch : Because you're the sort who can't know anyone intimately, least of all a woman.
[Cecil looks taken aback and hurt]
Lucy Honeychurch : Well, I don't mean exactly that, but you will go on asking questions!
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[last lines]
George Emerson : Kiss me, dear. Again.
Lucy Honeychurch : I'm reading.
George Emerson : What are you reading?
Lucy Honeychurch : It's from Freddy.
George Emerson : What does he say?
Lucy Honeychurch : Silly boy. He thinks he's being dignified. I mean, everybody knew we were going away in the spring.
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Lucy Honeychurch : How quickly these accidents do happen and then one returns to the old life.
George Emerson : I don't. I mean, something's happened to me... and to you.
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Freddy Honeychurch : Why does she look like that?
Lucy Honeychurch : Like what?
Freddy Honeychurch : [imitating Charlotte] Like Charlotte Bartlett.
Lucy Honeychurch : Because, she *is* Charlotte Bartlett.
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[first lines]
Charlotte Bartlett : This is not at all what we were led to expect.
Lucy Honeychurch : I thought we were going to see the Arno.
Charlotte Bartlett : The signora distinctly wrote, South rooms, with a view and close together, instead of which she has given us North rooms without a view and a long way apart.
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Lucy Honeychurch : Why need mother hear of it?
Charlotte Bartlett : Well, you tell her everything, don't you?
Lucy Honeychurch : I suppose I do, generally.
Charlotte Bartlett : There's such a beautiful confidence between you. One would hate to break it. And as I have said before, I am to blame.
Lucy Honeychurch : I wouldn't want mother to think so.
Charlotte Bartlett : She will think so, if you tell her.
Lucy Honeychurch : I shall never speak of it, either to mother or to anyone.
Charlotte Bartlett : We will both be as silent as the grave.
