“Paradise Road” quotes

“- Margaret Drummond: I was in China when the Japanese invaded and I think that the people they despised the most were Europeans and prisoners then women.
- Adrienne Pargiter: Well that's us. All three.”
Pauline Collins - Margaret Drummond
Glenn Close - Adrienne Pargiter

“The war is over. Once more we can be friends.”
Sab Shimono - Colonel Hirota

“Well I'm a nun, not a saint!”

Johanna ter Steege - Sister Wilhelminia

“- Adrienne Pargiter: The Prince Albert was full of women and children, not soldiers.
- Captain Tanaka: A matter of regret.
- Adrienne Pargiter: More than that. There's a Geneva Convention laying down the rules of war.
- Captain Tanaka: Japan has signed no Geneva Convention. If war has began, it can only mean the time for rules has ended. The aim...” (continue)(continue reading)
Glenn Close - Adrienne Pargiter
Stan Egi - Captain Tanaka

“Love is like a flame, it burns and is visible to all.”
Jennifer Ehle - Rosemary Leighton-Jones

“I really don't mind dying.”
Elizabeth Spriggs - Mrs. Roberts

“The will to survive is strong, stronger than anything.”
Pauline Collins - Margaret Drummond

“Sometimes God reaches down and pulls the wings off his butterflies.”
Frances McDormand - Dr. Verstak

“- Adrienne Pargiter: You don't hate them do you?
- Margaret Drummond: No.
- Adrienne Pargiter: Why not?
- Margaret Drummond: I've tried, but I can't bring myself to hate people. The worse they behave, the sorrier I feel for them.”

Glenn Close - Adrienne Pargiter
Pauline Collins - Margaret Drummond