AlmaI want you flat on your back. Helpless, tender, open with only me to help. And then I want you strong again. You're not going to die. You might wish you're going to die, but you're not going to. You need to settle down a little.
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Reynolds WoodcockThe tea is going out. The interruption is staying right here with me.
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CyrilDon't pick a fight with me, you certainly won't come out alive. I'll go right through you and it'll be you who ends up on the floor. Understood?
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Reynolds WoodcockIt's comforting to think the dead are watching over the living. I don't find that spooky at all.
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Reynolds Woodcock[to the vision of his mother]Are you here? Are you always here? I miss you. I think about you all the time. I hear your voice say my name when I dream and when I wake up, there are tears streaming down my face. I just miss you, it's as simple as that. I want to tell you everything. I don't understand what you're saying. I can't hear your voice.
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Reynolds WoodcockMarriage would make me deceitful and I don't ever want that.
Alma[voice-over]Sometimes I jump ahead in our life together, and I see a time near the end. I can predict the future, and everything is settled. And all our lovers and children and friends come back and are welcome. And we have large gatherings where everyone is laughing and playing games. I am older and I see things differently, and I finally understand you. I take care of your dresses, keeping them from dust and ghosts and time.
AlmaAll your rules and your walls and your doors and your people and your money and all this clothes and everything! This! This! This game! Everything here! The whole "pfff"! Nothing is normal or natural or... everything is a game! "Yes, mister! No, madam!" "Yes, uh... vu-vu-poo!" "I don't eat this! I don't drink that, I don't..."
Reynolds WoodcockWell, if, if it's my, if it's my life that you're describing, it's entirely up to you whether you choose to share it or not. If you don't wish to share that life as apparently it's so disagreeable to you in every respect, why don't you just fuck off to back where you came from?
JohannaWhere have you gone, Reynolds. There's nothing I can say to get your attention aimed back at me, is there?
Reynolds WoodcockI cannot begin my day with a confrontation, please. I'm delivering the dress today, and I can't take up space with confrontation. I simply don't have time for confrontations.
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Reynolds WoodcockI think it's the expectations and assumptions of others that cause heartache.
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Reynolds WoodcockIs this an ambush? Are you sent here to ruin my evening? And possibly my entire life?
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Reynolds WoodcockTo keep my sour heart from choking. To break a curse. A house that doesn't change is a dead house.
CyrilShe's getting fat sitting around waiting for you to fall in love with her again.
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CyrilAnd who is this lovely creature making the house smell so nice?
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Reynolds WoodcockThere is an air of quiet death in this house and I do not like the way it smells.
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Reynolds WoodcockI feel as if I've been looking for you for a very long time.
AlmaYou found me. Whatever you do, do it carefully.
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AlmaIt's no business of ours what Mrs. Rose decides to do with her life but she can no longer behave like this and be dressed by the House of Woodcock.
AlmaIf he didn't wake up from this, if he wasn't here tomorrow, no matter. For I know he'd be waiting for me in the afterlife or some safe celestial place, in this life and the next and the next one after. And for whatever there is on the road that follows from here, it would only require my patience to get to him again. You see, to be in love with him makes life no great mystery.
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Reynolds WoodcockIs there something I'm unaware of? Because as far as I can remember, all I've done is to dress her beautifully.
CyrilI don't think that matters to some people, I think they want what is fashionable and chic.
Reynolds WoodcockChic? Oh, don't you start using that filthy little word, Chic! Whoever invented that ought to be spanked in public. I don't... I don't even know what that word means! What is that word? Fucking chic! They should be hung, drawn, and quartered. Fucking chic.
Reynolds WoodcockI think it's the expectations and assumptions of others that cause heartache.
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Reynolds WoodcockAs I think you know, Alma, I prefer my asparagus with oil and salt. And knowing this, you've prepared the asparagus with butter. Now, I can imagine in certain circumstances being able to pretend that I like it made this way. Right now, I'm just admiring my own gallantry for eating it the way you've prepared it.
AlmaI don't know what I'm doing here. I, I don't know what I'm doing here. I'm just waiting around like a idiot for you.
Reynolds WoodcockYou can sew almost anything into the canvas of a coat.
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AlmaIt's no business of ours what Mrs. Rose decides to do with her life. But, she can no longer behave like this and be dressed by the House of Woodcock!
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Reynolds WoodcockYou look beautiful. Really. Very beautiful. You're making me extremely hungry.
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AlmaIn his work, I become perfect - and I feel just right. Maybe that's how all women feel, in his clothes.
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Reynolds WoodcockI'm so hungry. Delighted that we have cream in the house.
AlmaI never really liked myself. I thought my - shoulders were too wide. My neck was - skinny like a bird. And I had no breasts. I felt my - hips were larger than needed and my arms too strong.
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Reynolds WoodcockTake the fucking dress off Barbara and bring it to me or I'll do it myself!
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CyrilHis routine, when he's in it, is best not shaken. This is a quiet time. Not to be misused. If breakfast isn't right, it's very hard for him to recover for the rest of the day.
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Reynolds Woodcock32, 30, 31, 35 and a half, 14 and a half, 17, 20. Would you stand normally.