My Mother and Other Strangers (TV Mini Series)

Vera (2016)

Hattie Morahan: Rose Coyne

Quotes 

• Vera Curtis : If Captain Dreyfuss walked in wearing only a brocade dressing gown and flung himself on the bed, you'd talk to him about literature?

  Rose Coyne : Don't tease. I know I can't have that one bit of him and still say I love Michael, I know that. I'm a fool, not an idiot. But if you take it away from me, if you take away the chance that, in a different universe in a different set of circumstances, we could have swapped souls. "Always stay with me, take any shape..." Oh, I used to remember every word of this.

  [searches for book to quote from] 

  Rose Coyne : "Be with me always, take any form, drive me mad. Only do not leave me in this abyss where I cannot find you! Oh, God! It is unutterable! I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul!" If you take it away... and I believe you could, Vera. You're prettier and vivacious and funny and single and... Oh, God. I'm asking you not to, aren't I?

  Vera Curtis : It's all right.

  Rose Coyne : It's not. It's mean and selfish and entirely wrong but if you do that for me...

  Vera Curtis : "The curse has come upon me", cried the Lady of Shallot.