The Enchanted Cottage (1945)

Dorothy McGuire: Laura Pennington

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• Laura Pennington : Oliver, we've never written our names - somehow I think they'd want us to.

• Laura Pennington : It isn't as if I weren't aware of my ugliness. There's only one thing you've overlooked. Women like me, conscious as we may be of our defects, we find a refuge in our dreams, daydreams as well as night dreams; merciful dreams in which we're as lovely and desirable as the loveliest and most desirable woman in the world. It's cruel to destroy those dreams.

• Laura Pennington : I hoped here where I grew up, I might find... well, I really don't know what it was I wanted to find. A place I belonged, I guess. A place that when I woke up in the morning, I'd be glad it was another day. And when I went to sleep, I'd know that it had meant something to have been away.

• Mrs. Abigail Minnett : Do you know what loneliness is, real loneliness?

  Laura Pennington : [Heavy with sadness]  Yes.

  Mrs. Abigail Minnett : I thought you would.

• Mrs. Abigail Minnett : I understand you're looking for a job.

  Laura Pennington : Yes, I am. I suppose I'm really looking for a home.

• Laura Pennington : Mrs. Minnett, there is something about this cottage.

  Mrs. Abigail Minnett : There is, indeed. It needs a good cleaning, right now.