The Invisible Woman (2013)

Felicity Jones: Nelly

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Quotes 

• Charles Dickens : A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is a profound secret and mystery to every other.

  Nelly : Until that secret is given to another to look after. And then perhaps two human creatures may know each other.

• [first lines] 

  Mr. George Wharton Robinson : Our boys' curriculum is very wide. They perform a short play at the end of every term. Theater's an abiding interest of my wife... Ah, Mary, tea if you please.

  Mary : [arriving late]  Yes, sir.

  Mr. George Wharton Robinson : Through the open door... Nelly, where were you? Mr. Benham has been here since 3:00.

  Nelly : I'm so sorry. Mr. Lambourne has been organizing the boys best he can.

  Mary : I lost all sense of time...

• [Speaking angerly to Charles Dickens] 

  Nelly : But I did not realize that I was to be your whore.

• Nelly : Stand guard once more, ready for life.

• Charles Dickens : Tell me a secret.

  Nelly : What kind of secret?

  Charles Dickens : Anything...

  Nelly : My middle name is Lawless.

• [Meeting Dickens in secret] 

  Nelly : Everyone has their secret. And this is ours.

• [after visiting his grave] 

  Nelly : Charles understood that however painful it is: we're alone; Whoever we're with, we are alone. He was right. Great Expectations.

• Catherine Dickens : 'Tis a Fiction designed to entertain.

  Nelly : Surely it's more than that. It changes us.