Colette (I) (2018)

Keira Knightley: Colette

Photos 

20 more photos

Quotes 

• Colette : [from trailer]  My name is Gabrielle Colette and the hand that holds the pen writes history.

• Colette : [quoting Willy back to him]  The hand that holds the pen writes history.

• Colette : Did you ever feel like you were playing a part, Sido?

  Sido : In what way?

  Colette : As a wife. Or a mother. Like you were just going through with it.

  Sido : Sometimes, as a wife. Never as a mother.

• Colette : You hurt and you hurt and you hurt, and you think that by saying "I'm a man, that's what men do", you clear it all away.

• Colette : I can read you like the top line of an optician's chart.

• Willy : [taking a stroll in the countryside]  I don't know why you're so keen on nature. Animals are vile to each other.

  Colette : Animals are honest at least. They never lie.

  Willy : Yes, my dear. Well, that's because they don't speak.

• Willy : You're overreacting. This was purely a business decision.

  Colette : Isn't that what our whole marriage has been? Wasn't I the best investment you ever made? No dowry, but my God, she can write for her keep!

• Colette : When you raise your eyelids it's as if you were taking off all my clothes. Don't look away. Look at me. Look at me looking at you.

• Colette : You found me when I knew nothing. You moulded me to your own designs, to your desires. And you thought that I could never break free.

• [last lines] 

  Colette : Yes, this is the dangerous, lucid hour. Now, whenever I despair, I no longer expect my end, but some bit of luck, some commonplace little miracle which, like a glittering link, will mend again the necklace of my days.