If Winter Comes (1947)

Deborah Kerr: Nona Tybar

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• Nona Tyber : I had to come. Pleased?

  Mark Sabre : How do I look?

  Nona Tyber : Pleased. Almost as pleased as I am.

• Mark Sabre : You haven't told me what you've been doing.

  Nona Tyber : Oh, that. Oh, I've been around the world. It's a big place, a lot of people live on it. I met quite a few of 'em, liked some, didn't like others.

• Nona Tyber : Security. Peace of mind. You know, those are the very things that brought me back home, and they're going to keep me here forever. I hope.

• Mark Sabre : Hello. Shopping?

  Nona Tyber : How did you guess?

  Mark Sabre : Elementary, my dear Watson.

• Mark Sabre : I told you not to send the car home, it's going to rain.

  Nona Tyber : Prophet!

• Nona Tyber : Is it wrong for us to tell each other what's in our hearts?

  Mark Sabre : Not if we keep it in our hearts and - never let it hurt anyone.

• Nona Tyber : Remember, a long time ago, you told me something. You said, "It sounds rather fine to say the world well lost for love, but, honor, honor's not well lost for anything."

  Mark Sabre : Did I say that? I must have been very wise then.

• Nona Tyber : I had to touch your hand to live in your world for a little while.

  Mark Sabre : My world? Where do you live?

  Nona Tyber : Oh, I don't live. I drift.

  Mark Sabre : Drift?

  Nona Tyber : The dictionary says of flotsam: "goods shipwrecked and found floating on the sea." When I read that, I crossed out "flotsam" and wrote "Nona." And don't dare say I'm feeling sorry for myself, because I am. But at least I know it.

• Tony Tybar : What's the matter, old girl?

  Nona Tyber : Everything, Tony, everything.

• Nona Tyber : Sometimes I get the feeling that things are closing in.

  Mark Sabre : Shelley had something pretty comforting to say about that. Remember, "O wind, If winter comes." Give me your hand a moment, to help me hold onto the rest of those lines and believe them. "O wind, If winter comes, can Spring be far behind?"