I Capture the Castle (2003)

Romola Garai: Cassandra

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• Cassandra : But dreams are like a drug: the magic doesn't last and then the pain is worse than knives.

• Simon : You always were wise beyond your years.

  Cassandra : No I wasn't. I used to be consciously naive.

• Stephen Colley : [on being kept by an older woman]  She takes care of me, you know. With clothes and that. Besides, I don't *mind* the other part of it. It's like acting in a movie.

  Cassandra : Only how do you know when you're acting and when you're not?

• Cassandra : No towel in the world is worth marrying a bearded man you hate.

• Cassandra : Father. 'Jacob Wrestling' was a wonderful, groundbreaking book. There was never going to be a sequel overnight!

  James Mortmain : Meaning?

  Cassandra : Meaning, it will come!

  James Mortmain : How old are you?

  Cassandra : Seventeen.

  James Mortmain : And you still believe in fairy tales.

• Cassandra : This is a crisis Simon, not a treat.

• Cassandra : I said I would never fall in love; I said love was a murderous thing; And it is, and I'm floating on air.

• [first lines] 

  Cassandra : I write this sitting in the kitchen sink.

• Cassandra : I look a lot prettier when I'm not standing next to Rose.

• Cassandra : I have put my own father back in prison.

• Cassandra : Can you smell bluebells?

  Rose : I can smell heaven.

• Cassandra : [about Simon]  You don't love him, do you?

  Rose : No. I don't think I do. Shame really.

  Cassandra : Well... do you want me to tell him?

  Rose : Tell him what? I'm still going to marry him.

  Cassandra : That's a wicked, wicked thing to do!

• Cassandra : I used to be consciously naive.

• [last lines] 

  Cassandra : [narrating]  Still, better all that hurt than to have known no pain... learnt nothing. There's only the last page left to write on. I'll fill it with words of just one syllable. I love. I have loved. I will love.

• James Mortmain : I am the head of this household. I'm entitled to respect!

  Cassandra : You aren't respected. You're indulged.

• Cassandra : Is that all you think you're worth?

  Topaz Mortmain : It's what I have to make my mark.

  Cassandra : You've made your mark with us! Thomas. And Rose. And me.

  Topaz Mortmain : But I'm not your mother.

• [first lines] 

  Cassandra : [narrating]  I have relived this particular day many times. The weather is always flawless, and so is Father's mood. It is a golden memory, and I am suspicious of it. I keep looking for one black cloud in the sky, for some premonition of what was to come, but I can't find anything. Not a single clue.

• Rose : You can't leave now! What am I going to tell people?

  Cassandra : You're already living a lie, Rose. Tell them what the bloody hell you like. And then go home and count your peach coloured towels.