The Winter Guest (1997)

Phyllida Law: Elspeth

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• Elspeth : A person needs to be needed and if you don't need me, you could lie.

• Elspeth : A happy woman doesn't mutilate herself.

• Frances : Time has come for me to embrace my years, don't you think, Mother? Welcome them, not fight them anymore.

  Elspeth : Why should you embrace your years? No one else does.

• Elspeth : Suits me, this. My God, it's bleak! I love it, winter! I like weather - definite weather. When it rains, I like it pelting down. And wind? I like a good blow. Sunshine? Couldn't be doing with it all the time and never a cloud in the sky. Look at this! Look at it! Clean it up and there's nowhere on this Earth that could beat it for beauty.

• Elspeth : One life! Thats all! You'll not get the last years back.