Mother Love (1989)

Fiona Gillies: Angela Vesey, Angela Turner

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• [after discovering Kit has been lying to Helena] 

  Angela Turner : You're so bloody good at it!

  Christopher "Kit" Vesey : I'm so bloody good at it because I've been doing it all my life.

• Helena Vesey : You're like me. We feel very, very deeply. Our love when given is absolute. We know what is right. Even when people laugh at it.

  Angela Turner : I don't think anyone laughs at it Helena.

  Helena Vesey : You see, I've known betrayal of the worst kind. Kit's father was cruel and unnatural. He behaved like a monster toward Kit and me. And for better or for worse I've protected my son against that knowledge. Do you understand?

  Angela Turner : Yes.

  Helena Vesey : The protection I gave him has left him a very vulnerable, innocent boy. He may be tricked into believing that ties of blood oblige him to make overtures. Or recieve them. You know enough about life, I think, to see how very very wrong that will be.

  Angela Turner : Helena, nobody wants to hurt you.

  Helena Vesey : I'm thinking of Kit's vulnerability, not my own. Anyone who allows such overtures to take place will be behaving like a criminal. And deserve to be treated as such.

• Christopher "Kit" Vesey : Angela, will you marry me?

  Angela Turner : What? It's only been three weeks.

  Christopher "Kit" Vesey : I know.

  Angela Turner : Yes, alright.

  [pause] 

  Angela Turner : Bit of a conversation stopper.

• Christopher "Kit" Vesey : The trick is to go slowly. We've got her over the first hurdle.

  Angela Turner : I've never seen myself as a hurdle before.

  Christopher "Kit" Vesey : A very nice hurdle.

  Angela Turner : Soft, low and easy to jump, eh?

• Angela Turner : I sometimes feel as if we're... too lucky. Too happy. Tempting fate sort of thing. Is that silly?

  Christopher "Kit" Vesey : Very silly indeed, I'm sorry to say.

• Helena Vesey : Well, I cannot tell a lie pussycat, but it was rather expensive. But, how shall I put it? I did want to thank you darling.

  Angela Turner : Thank me? What for?

  Helena Vesey : Simply for being you. You've been so sweet to me. So kind. And I-I haven't known much kindness in my life. So this is my way of saying thank you for everything. Darling pussycat.