[last lines] Older Briony: So, my sister and Robbie were never able to have the time together they both so longed for... and deserved. Which ever since I've... ever since I've always felt I prevented. But what sense of hope or satisfaction could a re...
Robbie Turner: [voiceover] Dearest Cecilia, the story can resume. The one I had been planning on that evening walk. I can become again the man who once crossed the surrey park at dusk, in my best suit, swaggering on the promise of life. The man who, ...
Cecilia Tallis: I love you. I'll wait for you. Come back. Come back to me.
[Robbie has just broken a vase belonging to Cecilia's family] Cecilia Tallis: You idiot... You realize that's probably the most valuable thing we own? Robbie Turner: Not anymore it isn't.
Robbie Turner: [about the letter he sent her] It was a mistake. Cecilia Tallis: Briony read it. Robbie Turner: I'm so sorry, it was the wrong version. Cecilia Tallis: Yes. Robbie Turner: It was never meant to be read. Cecilia Tallis: No. [walks away,...
Cecilia Tallis: [crying] I don't know how I could've been so ignorant about myself... so... so stupid. And you know what I'm talking about, don't you? You knew before I did. Robbie Turner: Why're you crying? Cecilia Tallis: Don't you know? Robbie Tur...
Robbie Turner: Have you been in touch with your family? Cecilia Tallis: No I told you I wouldn't. Leon waited outside the hospital last week. I just pushed past him. Robbie Turner: Cee, you don't owe me anything. Cecilia Tallis: Robbie didn't you rea...
Robbie Turner: Come on, pal. You should be getting dressed. Briony Tallis, aged 13: If I fell in the river, would you save me? Robbie Turner: Of course. [Briony jumps into the water and Robbie dives after her; eventually, he pulls her out of the wate...
Briony - 18 years old: I want to go in front of a judge and change my evidence, Cee. Cecilia Tallis: Don't call me that! [pause] Cecilia Tallis: Please don't call me that.
Cecilia Tallis: Robbie... Robbie Turner: Cecilia... Cecilia Tallis: I love you... Robbie Turner: I love you.
Briony - 18 years old: I am very, very sorry for the terrible distress that I have caused you. I am very, very sorry...
Cecilia Tallis: My brother and I found the two of them down by the lake. Police Inspector: You didn't see anyone else? Cecilia Tallis: I wouldn't necessarily believe everything Briony tells you. She's rather fanciful.
Briony - 18 years old: Dear Cecilia, Please don't throw this away without reading it. As you'll have seen from the notepaper, I'm here at St. Thomas's, doing my nurses' training. I decided not to take up my place at Cambridge. I decided I wanted to m...
Lola Quincey: [Lola has just extracted the lead role in Briony's play - Arabella - from its obviously reluctant author] I suppose we should start by reading it. Briony Tallis, aged 13: [sharply] If you're going to be Arabella, then I'll be the direct...
Paul Marshall: Bite it... You've got to bite it...
Briony Tallis, aged 13: Cee? Cecilia Tallis: Yes? Briony Tallis, aged 13: Why don't you talk to Robbie anymore? Cecilia Tallis: I do. We just move in different circles, that's all.
Cecilia Tallis: [about Robbie] No need to encourage him.
