Charlotte Gainsbourg credited as playing...
Jane Eyre
- Mr. Rochester: Sometimes I have the strangest feeling about you. Especially when you are near me as you are now. It feels as though I have a string - tied here under my left rib where my heart is, tightly knotted to you in a similar fashion. And when you go to Ireland, with all that distance between us, I'm afraid that this cord will be snapped, and I shall bleed inwardly. But you are sensible. You will forget me.
- Jane Eyre: No. I'll never forget. I wish I'd never been born.
- Mr. Rochester: Do you think me handsome?
- Jane Eyre: No sir.
- Mr. Rochester: [laughs] There is something very singular about you. You have the air of a little nun, Quaint, quiet, grave and simple. But when one asks you a question, or makes a remark to which you are obliged to answer, you rap out a reply which if not blunt is at least brusque. What do you mean by it?
- Jane Eyre: Sir, I was too plain. I beg your pardon. I only meant to reply that tastes differ. That beauty is of little consequence. Something of that sort.
- Mr. Rochester: You will endure my surliness without being hurt.
- Jane Eyre: I received a letter this morning. If you please, sir, I want leave of absence.
- Mr. Rochester: Why?
- Jane Eyre: Because of an old lady who is sick.
- Mr. Rochester: What old lady?
- Jane Eyre: Her name is Mrs. Reed. She is my aunt.
- Mr. Rochester: I thought you said you didn't have any relatives.
- Jane Eyre: None that would own me, sir. Mrs. Reed cast me off when I was a child.
- Mr. Rochester: Then why must you go rushing off to see her?
- Jane Eyre: She's dying. I can't ignore her dying wish.
- Mr. Rochester: [pause] You won't be persuaded to stay?
- Jane Eyre: No, sir. I will return to Thornfield.
- Mr. Rochester: So you and I must say goodbye?
- Jane Eyre: Yes, sir.
- Mr. Rochester: And how does one perform that ceremony? Teach me, I am not quite up to it.
- Jane Eyre: They say "farewell," or any other form they prefer.
- Mr. Rochester: Farewell, Miss Eyre. At the present. Is that all?
- Jane Eyre: Yes, sir.
- Mr. Rochester: Then we shake hands.
- [shakes her hand]
- Mr. Rochester: Remember your promise.
- Jane Eyre: [angry at Rochester] How can you be so stupid? How can you be so cruel? I may be poor and plain, but I'm not without feelings.
- Jane Eyre: We are truly devoted, my Edward and I; our hearts beat as one; our happiness is complete.
- Adele Varens: Mademoiselle, will we be very happy?
- Jane Eyre: We will work hard, and we will be content.
- Mr. Rochester: Are you fond of presents?
- Jane Eyre: I hardly know, sir. I have little experience of them. They're generally thought pleasant things.
- Mr. Rochester: *Generally* so, but what do you think?
- Jane Eyre: A present has many faces to it, has it not?
- Mr. Rochester: Just one last kiss before you leave.
- Jane Eyre: I shall never leave. You will never be alone for as long as I shall live.
- Mrs. Fairfax: Why, is anything the matter?
- Jane Eyre: I know tomorrow I'll discover this is a dream from which I must awaken.
- Mrs. Fairfax: We are real - and you are most welcome here, most welcome.
- Mr. Rochester: You have the look of another world about you. When I saw you in the lane, I thought on account of the fairy tales and have half a mind to ask whether you had bewitched my horse. I'm not sure yet, it is *she* who is responsible for my sprain.
- Jane Eyre: There was ice on the roadway, sir. It was that which caused your horse to slip.
- Mr. Rochester: Perhaps. I'm not sure yet.
- Mr. Rochester: Were you happy when you painted these pictures?
- Jane Eyre: I didn't have the skill to paint what was in my imagination. I always wanted to achieve more.
- Mr. Rochester: You may have insufficient technique - but the thoughts are magical.
- Mr. Rochester: You are not naturally austere any more than I am naturally vicious. I once had a heart full of tender feelings. But fortune has knocked me about. Now I'm hard and tough as an India rubber ball. You think there's any hope for me?
- Jane Eyre: Hope for what, sir?
- Mr. Rochester: For my being transformed from India rubber back to flesh and blood?
- Jane Eyre: [referring to the source of her paintings] They came out of my head.
- Mr. Rochester: That head I see now on your shoulders?
- Jane Eyre: Yes, sir.
- Mr. Rochester: Has it other furniture of the same kind within?
- Jane Eyre: I think it may have. Better, I hope.
- Jane Eyre: What a strange man. So changeful and abrupt.
- Mrs. Fairfax: I suppose I've grown accustomed to it. And one has to make allowances.
- Jane Eyre: Why?
- Mrs. Fairfax: Partly because it is his nature - and we none of us can help our nature. Partly, family troubles.
- Jane Eyre: He doesn't have a family.
- Mrs. Fairfax: There are painful memories which are perhaps best forgotten.
- Mr. Rochester: What's the matter? You're shivering.
- Jane Eyre: I'm cold.
- Mr. Rochester: Cold? You're Cold?
- Jane Eyre: Yes, sir.
- Mr. Rochester: Go then, Jane. Go back to bed.