Susannah Quotes in Admission (2013)

Susannah: Your... your lawn jockeys are outstanding.

Mrs. Pressman: Aren't they fun?

Dr. Slop: I can extrude the baby's head before the mother has a chance to mash its head to dough. Captain Shandy, make a baby's head of your hands. You're to imagine these sleeves are Mrs. Shandy's... funnel.

Rob Brydon: Funnel?

Susannah: Meat curtains.

Rob Brydon: Meat curtains? Brother?

Steve Coogan: My brother knows nothing of women.

Susannah: Tristan, I have nowhere to send this letter and no reason to believe you wish to receive it. I write it only for myself. And so I will hide it away along with all the things left unsaid and undone between us.

Susannah: Were you going to say goodbye? Tristan? How long will you be gone?

Tristan: Not long. A few months.

Susannah: I can make it better for you.

Tristan: No.

Susannah: If we'd had a child or if I were pregnant, would you still be going?

Tristan: Yes.

Susannah: Just give me a chance.

Tristan: Don't do that.

Susannah: Look at me. Please, look at me. I'll wait for you. However long it takes. I'll wait for you forever.

Alfred: I don't know what to say. Tristan's always been wild. You love him for that.

Susannah: Do I? Yeah, I suppose I do.

Alfred: Susannah, he does love you.

[holds her as she cries]

Colonel Ludlow: Alfred! She's to be your brother's wife.

Alfred: Yes, though you might better remind him of that.

Colonel Ludlow: He's not here to defend himself.

Alfred: No, he's not but I see you are here to defend him and what is his. Even though he's abandoned her and you. And I won't even speak of who else he abandoned.

Colonel Ludlow: Damn you, boy. Don't you blame my son for Samuel's death! Samuel chose to be a soldier and soldiers die. Sent to be slaughtered by the men in the government. Parasites like you! Damn and blast you!

[turns to Susannah]

Colonel Ludlow: Damn you too!

Alfred: Shut your mouth! You leave her out of this!

Colonel Ludlow: You get out of my house and off my land.

Alfred: Why? Because I want to serve my country like you did? Or because, like you, I love a woman who doesn't love me? He used her and he deserted her. Your darling Tristan.

Susannah: Alfred, don't, please.

Alfred: I loved her! I love her still. And he stole her from me. If you want to know the truth of it he stole her from Samuel before the war.

Colonel Ludlow: God help me, I'll kill you.

Susannah: Forever turned out to be too long.

Young Isabel Two: You're going to marry Samuel.

Susannah: That's right.

Young Isabel Two: I'm going to marry Tristan.

Susannah: Then we'll be sisters.

Susannah: I still sometimes dream that I'm the mother of your children. I wanted her to die.

Alfred: Susannah, you know how much I loved Samuel. And I think you know. Out of respect for him I wanted to say it in this place. I think you know that I'm in love with you. From the first moment I saw you. Like in a novel. That's my mother's romantic imagination coming out in me, I suppose. You're not making this very easy for me, Susannah.

Susannah: Sorry.

Alfred: Is there any hope that you could learn to love me? Not the way you loved Samuel, of course, but enough to. Susannah, we could make a life together. A happy life.

Susannah: I don't think so, Alfred.

Alfred: It seems like you're not sure though. Maybe there's a chance. What?

Susannah: I think I can only cause you pain, Alfred.

[Regarding Tristan's departure]

Susannah: Will he come back?

Colonel Ludlow: I don't know.

Colonel Ludlow: [One Stab speaks Cree] Stab says yes.