Possession (2002)
Gwyneth Paltrow: Maud Bailey
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Quotes
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Roland Michell : So what are we gonna do now? We gonna try to beat'em to France, or - or are we just gonna stare at each other?
Maude : That is the question, isn't it?
Roland Michell : Mm-hmmm
Maude : I have another one for you.
Roland Michell : What's that?
Maude : What are you really doing here?
Roland Michell : Well, I uh - I needed to see your face. I just wanted to let you know that whatever happened at Whitby, which unfortunately was not much, is not because anything that you did. Not at all. I just didn't want to jump into something. I mean, I did and I do... want to. Badly. I just didn't want to mess this up. And I just want to see -
[clears throat]
Roland Michell : I want to see if there's an us in you and me. Would-Would you like that?
[Maude leans over and kisses Roland]
Roland Michell : I'll take that as a yes.
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Maude : [the morning after they hooked up which Roland put a stop to] Okay, let's not beat the thing dead. It happened. We're both grown-ups...
Roland Michell : Speak for yourself.
Maude : I'd hate to see how you're like after you actually sleep with someone.
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[to Roland the morning after their first night together, and first kiss]
Maude : I can't imagine what you're like after you actually sleep with someone!
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Maude : [they are standing on rocks in a river looking at a waterfall that Maude recalls in one of Christabell's poems that describes a cave behind the waterfall. Upon sharing that with Roland, he immediately starts taking his clothes off] I know this is an awfully repressed sort of English thing to say, but what the hell are you doing?
Roland Michell : How else are we going to find out if there's a cave?
[Dives into the water]
Maude : [smiling, and speaking to no one] We could ask someone.
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Roland Michell : Don't worry about me. I'm kind of a brush and flush kinda guy.
[seeing Maude's repulsed expression]
Roland Michell : Forget I said that.
Maude : I'll try.
