The Skeleton Key (2005)
Gena Rowlands: Violet Devereaux
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Quotes
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Violet Devereaux : Child, I believe you broke my legs.
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Violet Devereaux : I bet they don't have gardens like this is New Jersey.
Caroline Ellis : Actually, it's "The Garden State".
Violet Devereaux : I very much doubt that!
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Violet Devereaux : You think I'm senile, don't you?
Caroline Ellis : I just don't understand. Why would the ghosts put a spell on Ben and not me? I've been in that room too.
Violet Devereaux : Maybe because you don't believe them.
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Caroline Ellis : I'm going into town for a while. Shopping.
Violet Devereaux : For what, Caroline? Caroline! For what?
Caroline Ellis : ...you'll just have to see.
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Caroline Ellis : So was that the storm or the ghosts?
Violet Devereaux : Well, say what you will about spirits, I always thought you could learn something from them.
Caroline Ellis : Like a spell? I have great respect for your husband. And whatever he thinks happened to him he's fighting it. What have you done?
Violet Devereaux : You haven't touched your gumbo.
Caroline Ellis : What have you done to him?
Violet Devereaux : I've made that special for you and you haven't even touched it.
Caroline Ellis : What have you done?
Violet Devereaux : He is my husband and I am his wife I will do whatever I want to him.
Caroline Ellis : What have you done to him?
Violet Devereaux : Oh, you've done something.
Caroline Ellis : He's not safe in this house; not with you.
Violet Devereaux : This is my house.
Caroline Ellis : I'm taking him, Violet.
Violet Devereaux : NO!
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Violet Devereaux : [to Caroline Ellis] You think too much about the time you have left- You don't spend it living.
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Violet Devereaux : We've been waiting for you, Caroline. Waiting for you to believe. It doesn't work if you don't believe.
Caroline Ellis : I don't... I don't... I don't believe. I don't...
Violet Devereaux : Oh, I think you do.
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Violet Devereaux : Are you religious at all?
Caroline Ellis : I try to keep an open mind.
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Caroline Ellis : I thought the key opens everything.
Violet Devereaux : The key? What key?
Caroline Ellis : The key you gave me for the house. There is a door in the attic it doesn't work for.
Violet Devereaux : Oh, the attic, it's never opened that.
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[from trailer]
Violet Devereaux : I warned you about the mirrors.
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Violet Devereaux : [to Caroline Ellis] I told you and you heard me, no mirrors.
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[after extracting Luke's whereabouts from a terrified Caroline]
Violet Devereaux : [to Luke] Don't scratch her up any more than she already is.
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Violet Devereaux : You're not from the south. You wouldn't understand. That room up there?
[points]
Violet Devereaux : You don't just go in there and throw things out of a room like that. You leave them just where you found them. The house is theirs just as much as ours.
Caroline Ellis : The house is whose? Whose things are in that room?
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Caroline Ellis : I saw the room.
Violet Devereaux : What room?
Caroline Ellis : The room you said you've never seen
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Violet Devereaux : You can't get away, Caroline!
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[repeated line when looking for Caroline]
Violet Devereaux : Where in damnation is that child?
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Violet Devereaux : Well, I see the children are getting acquainted.
Luke : Oh, Violet. You know you're the only woman in my life.
Violet Devereaux : I know no such thing, and remove your perspirations.