Hour of the Wolf (1968)

Liv Ullmann: Alma Borg

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Quotes 

• Johan Borg : The old ones called it "the hour of the wolf". It is the hour when most people die, when most children are born. Now is when nightmares come to us. And if we are awake -...

  Alma Borg : We're afraid.

  Johan Borg : We're afraid.

• Alma Borg : There's one thing I've been puzzling over. Are you in a big hurry? I'd like to ask you something. It's this. Is it true that a woman who lives a long time with a man, eventually winds up being like that man? I mean, she loves him and tries to think like him and see like him. They say that it can change a person.

• Johan Borg : Do you hear the quiet?

  Alma Borg : Yes, it's quiet.

• [last lines] 

  Alma Borg : So many questions. Sometimes I don't know which way to turn, and I become quite - -

  [turns away and back again] 

• Johan Borg : I know!

  Alma Borg : What?

  Johan Borg : I shall draw you.

  Alma Borg : No!

  Johan Borg : Oh, let me,

  Alma Borg : No.

  Johan Borg : Come on.

  Alma Borg : No.

  Johan Borg : Go and sit over there.

  Alma Borg : No.

  Johan Borg : Up you get, fatty.

  Alma Borg : Here?

  Johan Borg : No, a little bit further back. There. Are you chilly?

  Alma Borg : No.

  Johan Borg : Now sit - the way you always do. Don't straighten up. And bare your shoulders. That's it. Hold your hair up a little so I can see your neck better. There. Just like that.

• Alma Borg : I thought I was so close to him. Sometimes he said he felt close to me. One time he told me definitely.

• Alma Borg : We were usually completely alone. He never wanted to meet anyone. He was afraid.

• Alma Borg : I said very little and he liked that. He liked me.

• Alma Borg : We never kiss each other. Can you tell me why? I can count our kisses.

• Alma Borg : That's not what it says in your diary. "My obsession with Veronica became a torment for us both. I shadowed her on the road and spied on her jealously. I think my passion stimulated her, but she was always passive and undecided. Once or twice it came to frightening scenes utterly devoid of reason. We moved from town to town in an effort to escape her relatives and lawyers. We carried out the word of the Bible, that man and woman 'shall be of one flesh.' Then her husband came and took her away."

• Alma Borg : Do you think I like to watch you running after that woman, talking to your ridiculous ghosts, having to guard myself the whole time?