- Clifford Chatterley: I've always cared for you, Connie.
- Connie: Yes, cared for me. In the same way you care for your books and for your radio, but never in the ways I need you to.
- Clifford Chatterley: I love you, Connie. I've loved you the only way I know how. I've given you everything I know how to give.
- Connie: I've thought a lot about what you said at the wedding - that I open my heart too easily. That may have been true before the war but I don't think it is any longer. Lately I have felt my heart opening up again, despite all warning, and I can assure you nothing about it has been easy.
- Sir Malcolm Reid: Feelings come and go. You may love one man this year and another the next, but the word will go on.
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- Connie: I, Constance Reid, take you, Clifford Chatterly, to be my lawfully wedded husband, to have and to hold from this day forward, for better and for worse, for richer and for poorer, in sickness and in health.