Rachel Ward credited as playing...
Meggie Cleary
- Meggie Cleary: I loved you Ralph. I never stopped loving you despite everything. Despite the fact that you were never mine. What part of you I got I had to steal. But that part was the best. Because that part was Dane. Dane was your son too. Yours and mine.
- Ralph de Bricassart: It isn't true.
- Meggie Cleary: He was your son Ralph and you couldn't see it. Couldn't see that he was just a more perfect version of you. Couldn't love me enough to see that I never would have gone back to Luke or to any man after you. And now you say it isn't true.
- Ralph de Bricassart: [Breaks down and sobs]
- Meggie Cleary: [sarcastically] Poor Ralph. Poor Cardinal de Bricassart.
- Ralph de Bricassart: [after Dane's funeral] How will we live without him?
- Meggie Cleary: We will. Your God gathers in the good ones and leaves the living to those of us who fail. Your greedy God. There is no peace with Him.
- Ralph de Bricassart: Meggie, no. No more!
- Meggie Cleary: What can God do to me now? What more do I have to lose?
- Ralph de Bricassart: Your soul, Your heart. Your love. The love you've always had within you despite everything.
- Meggie Cleary: Despite everything but this.
- [closes door on crypt]