Little Women (2019)
Saoirse Ronan: Jo March
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Jo March : I'd rather be a free spinster and paddle my own canoe.
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Jo March : Perhaps... perhaps I was too quick in turning him down. Laurie.
Marmee March : Do you love him?
Jo March : If he asked me again, I think I would say yes. Do you think he'll ask me again?
Marmee March : But do you love him?
Jo March : I care more to be loved. I want to be loved.
Marmee March : That is not the same as loving.
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Meg March : I can't believe today is my wedding day!
Jo March : Me neither.
Meg March : What's wrong?
Jo March : Nothing.
Meg March : Jo...
Jo March : We can leave. We can leave right now.
Meg March : What?
Jo March : I can make money: I'll sell stories, I'll do anything - cook, clean, work in a factory. I can make a life for us.
Meg March : But, Jo...
Jo March : And you, you should be an actress and have a life on the stage. Let's run away together.
Meg March : I want to get married.
Jo March : Why?
Meg March : I love him.
Jo March : You will be bored of him in two years and we will be interesting forever.
Meg March : Just because my dreams are different than yours doesn't mean they're unimportant. I want a home and a family and I'm willing to work and struggle, but I want to do it with John.
Jo March : I just hate that you're leaving me. Don't leave.
Meg March : Oh, Jo, I'm not leaving you. Besides, one day it will be your turn.
Jo March : I'd rather be a free spinster and paddle my own canoe. I would. I can't believe childhood is over.
Meg March : It was going to end one way or another. And what a happy end.
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Jo March : [Whispering to Beth] Don't go quietly, fight! Please fight to the end, be LOUD! Don't just quietly go away!
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Jo March : I can't say "Yes" truly, so I won't say it at all. You'll see that I'm right, eventually, and you'll thank me for it.
Theodore 'Laurie' Laurence : I'll be hanged if I do!
Jo March : You'll find some lovely accomplished girl who will adore you and make a fine mistress for your fine house. I wouldn't. I'm homely and awkward and odd and you'd be ashamed of me and we would quarrel - we can't help it even now! - I'd hate elegant society and you'd hate my scribbling and we would be unhappy and wish we hadn't done it and everything will be horrid.
Theodore 'Laurie' Laurence : Anything more?
Jo March : Nothing more -- except that... I don't believe I will ever marry. I'm happy as I am, and love my liberty too well to be in any hurry to give it up.
Theodore 'Laurie' Laurence : You will care for somebody, and you'll love him tremendously, and live and die for him. I know you will, it's your way, and you will and I'll watch.
Jo March : Teddy...
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Jo March : I can't get over my disappointment at being a girl.
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Beth March : It's like the tide going out. It goes out slowly, but it can't be stopped.
Jo March : I'll stop it. I've stopped it before.
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Jo March : I suppose marriage has always been an economic proposition. Even in fiction.
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Theodore 'Laurie' Laurence : That's my grandfather. Are you scared of him?
Jo March : I'm not scared of anyone! He looks stern, but my grandfather was much more handsome.
Marmee March : Jo! We do not compare grandfathers!
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Beth March : I love to listen to you read, Jo, but I love it even better when you read the stories you've written.
Jo March : I don't have any new stories.
Beth March : Why not?
Jo March : Haven't written any.
Beth March : You have pencil and paper. Sit here and write me something.
Jo March : Uhh. I can't, I don't think I can anymore.
Beth March : Why?
Jo March : It's just, no one even cares to hear my stories anyway.
Beth March : Write something for me. You're a writer. Even before anyone knew or paid you. I'm very sick and you must do what I say. Do what Marmee taught us to do. Do it for someone else.
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Jo March : When is Amy coming home?
Marmee March : We didn't want to worry her.
Jo March : Does she not know?
Meg March : Beth insisted we not tell her because she didn't want to ruin Amy's trip.
Jo March : Amy has always had a talent for getting out of the hard parts of life.
Marmee March : Jo, don't be angry with your sister...
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Jo March : If I were a girl in a book, this would all be so easy.
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Jo March : If she had died, it would've been my fault.
Marmee March : She will be fine, the doctor said he didn't even think she'd catch cold.
Jo March : What is wrong with me? I've made so many resolutions and written sad notes and cried over my sins, but it just doesn't seem to help. When I get in a passion, I get so savage I could hurt anyone and I'd enjoy it.
Marmee March : You remind me of myself.
Jo March : But you're never angry.
Marmee March : I'm angry nearly every day of my life.
Jo March : You are?
Marmee March : I'm not patient by nature, but with nearly forty years of effort I'm learning to not let it get the better of me.
Jo March : I'll do the same, then.
Marmee March : I hope you'll do a great deal better than me. There are some natures too noble to curb and too lofty to bend.
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Amy March : I'm sorry, Jo.
Marmee March : Amy...
Amy March : It's just that the only thing you care about is your writing so it's not as if I could hurt you by ruining one of your dresses. And I really did want to hurt you. I am the most sorry for it now. I'm so sorry.
Marmee March : Jo, don't let the sun go down on your anger. Forgive her. Help each other, and you begin again tomorrow.
Jo March : She doesn't deserve my forgiveness. I will hate her! I will hate her forever!
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Beth March : Is there any news? What does she say?
Jo March : She writes that Laurie is there... I'm glad he's with her, he won't respond to any of my letters.
Beth March : Do you miss him?
Jo March : [Tearing up] I miss everything.
Beth March : I know.
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Jo March : You will get better. Father will get better. And we'll all be together soon.
Beth March : We can't stop God's will.
Jo March : God hasn't met my will yet. What Jo wills shall be done.
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Mrs. Kirke : Kitty and Minny are waiting!
Jo March : My students need me.
Friedrich Bhaer : Always working.
Jo March : Money is the end and aim of my mercenary existence.
Friedrich Bhaer : No one gets ink stains like yours just out of a desire for money.
Jo March : Well, my sister Amy is in Paris, and until she marries someone obscenely wealthy, it's up to me to keep the family afloat. Goodbye.
Friedrich Bhaer : Goodbye.
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Jo March : No one will forget Jo March.
