A Summer Place (1959)
Dorothy McGuire: Sylvia Hunter
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Quotes
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Sylvia Hunter : [to Helen Jorgenson] You seem to have an infinite capacity for hurt. First you try to destroy your daughter, and now our son.
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Sylvia Hunter : We live in a glass house - we're not throwing any stones.
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Sylvia Hunter : I'm perfectly willing to come to you whenever you want.
Ken Jorgenson : All summer?
Sylvia Hunter : All summer.
Ken Jorgenson : What about the winter? All the winters... all our lives?
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Ken Jorgenson : What's it like being stuck out here all winter?
Sylvia Hunter : Oh... it's quite lovely after the first snow.
Ken Jorgenson : And after the blizzard starts?
[uncomfortable pause]
Ken Jorgenson : You've avoided me ever since I arrived, Sylvia. Why? Can't we talk a moment?
Sylvia Hunter : What about?
Ken Jorgenson : You... me... Bart. How are things between you?
Sylvia Hunter : We, ah, made a life. I guess we all adjust ourselves, don't we?
Ken Jorgenson : I have never been able to. All through these years when I dreamed to have you wrapped up in them. I tried forgetting them. I even tried to imagine that you had gone fat and ugly and saggy.
Sylvia Hunter : [laughs] Is that why you came back? To find out? To see?
Ken Jorgenson : I came back because I had to.
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Sylvia Hunter : He gave me a hope I thought was gone.
Bart Hunter : [intoxicated] A hope for what?
Sylvia Hunter : Happiness.
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Sylvia Hunter : We've spoiled two lives. And now we're paying for it.
Ken Jorgenson : For the rest of our lives?
