Sunday, February 16, 2025

“You want me to commit some great folly.”

“You want me to commit some great folly.”

~ Isabel Archer, protagonist in the novel The Portrait of a Lady (1881) by Henry James,
played by Nicole Kidman in John Malkovich's movie (1996)


The Portrait of a Lady (1881) by Henry James:
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/2834/2834-h/2834-h.htm 

Osmond turned slightly pale; he gave a cold smile. “That’s why you must go then? Not to see your cousin, but to take a revenge on me.”

“I know nothing about revenge.”

“I do,” said Osmond. “Don’t give me an occasion.”

“You’re only too eager to take one. You wish immensely that I would commit some folly.”

“I should be gratified in that case if you disobeyed me.”

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