June Night (1940)

Ingrid Bergman: Kerstin Norbäck

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• Nils Asklund : Are you leaving now?

  Kerstin Norbäck : Stop your shouting.

  Nils Asklund : So the lady leaves once the fun's over.

  Kerstin Norbäck : Was it that much fun?

  Nils Asklund : You bitch!

• Kerstin Norbäck : It was my fault. Not his. The fault lies with me. I just wanted an adventure. It was Nils Asklund... I didn't realize that I'd chosen the wrong kind of adventure. Girls do on occasion.

• Jane : It's like you were born on the train that brought you to Stockholm. Why don't you ever talk about yourself like other women do?

  Kerstin Norbäck : There's nothing to tell.

  Jane : If you don't want to, you don't have to.

  Kerstin Norbäck : My childhood - it was poor and ugly. I was always cold. And I always longed to get away.

  Jane : Poor girl. Come. Come sit with me. I'm going to tell you a little secret, but you have to promise not to tell. The worse your childhood, the better your life will be. There has to be some justice.

• Kerstin Norbäck : Everything that happens to me, happens by chance.

• Kerstin Norbäck : Didn't it go as you expected?

  Nickan : He's a real scoundrel. He just wanted to seduce me. And I loved him so much. So much. And he got a raise. But he doesn't care about me. Not in the way that matters. Only in an obscene way. He was terribly obscene. And just think if I had my own room. All to myself. Like you do. I don't know what would have happened. If only he loved me!

• Kerstin Norbäck : You're happy, Åsa. You make people happy and I make them unhappy.

• Kerstin Norbäck : I don't think you should hate her. At the age of 19 after working all day, you don't have the energy to hate like this at night. Go to bed instead.

  Nickan : How am I supposed to sleep?

  Kerstin Norbäck : Get your pillow and blanket and sleep on the couch. That way you won't be alone. I'll talk to you.

  Nickan : Can I sleep here instead? If I can lie here and read, perhaps I'll fall asleep.

  Kerstin Norbäck : Come on then.

  [Kerstin welcomes Nickan into her bed] 

• Stefan von Bremen : Strange that we should meet this way.

  Kerstin Norbäck : I have such a silly heart. I can't handle anything.

• Kerstin Norbäck : You can't understand. Nobody understands me. I'm all alone in the world.

  Stefan von Bremen : Tell me and there will be two. I'll understand.

• Kerstin Norbäck : He fell in love. He told me about things that you dream of. Calm nights, the heat of the sun, coal smoke in the trade winds, and big colored women with eyes like mother-of-pearl.

  Stefan von Bremen : Did you like him very much?

  Kerstin Norbäck : Yes. Why would I deny it? He was the first person I cared about. I was grateful for it. And I wanted to give him something in return.

  Stefan von Bremen : And then?

  Kerstin Norbäck : And then it turned out we were too different anyway.

• Kerstin Norbäck : You can't force yourself to like somebody.

• Kerstin Norbäck : Maybe I have a tendency to exaggerate.

  Jane : It could happen to anyone on a bright June night.