“Testament of Youth” quotes

“Down the long white road we walked together. Down between the grey hills and the heather. You seemed all brown and soft, just like linnet. Your errant hair had shadowed sunbeams in it. And there shone all April in your eyes.”

Kit Harington - Roland Leighton

“At college, more than anywhere else, one was likely to make the friendships that supported one through life.”
Alicia Vikander - Vera Brittain

“What you have striven for will not end in nothing, all that you have done and been will not be wasted, for it will be a part of me as long as I live, and I shall remember, always.”
Alicia Vikander - Vera Brittain

“They'll want to forget you. They'll want me to forget. But I can't. I won't. This is my promise to you now. All of you.”

Alicia Vikander - Vera Brittain

“Perhaps... Perhaps some day the sun will shine again, and I shall see that still the skies are blue, and feel one more I do not live in vain, although bereft of you.”

Alicia Vikander - Vera Brittain

“You don't own the truth about how we get through this, Miss Brittain. Your opinion is just that, an opinion, and you'd do well to remember it.”
Miranda Richardson - Miss Lorimer

“- Vera Brittain: Please, I'd rather be by myself.
- Roland Leighton: It's the books I'm worried about. I've never seen anyone beat them up that way.”
Alicia Vikander - Vera Brittain
Kit Harington - Roland Leighton

“I shall never be afraid to confront the real. The imagined holds far greater terror for me.”
Alicia Vikander - Vera Brittain

“If this word should turn out to be a 'Te moriturum saluto,' perhaps it will brighten the dark moments a little to think how you have meant to someone more than anything ever has or ever will.”
Alicia Vikander - Vera Brittain

“- Mr. Brittain: Vera, come back and apologise now. If you can't show me the respect I deserve, then at least show some for our guests.
- Vera Brittain: I don't want a piano. You knew I didn't want one and still you bought it. I won't be bullied by you.
- Mr. Brittain: Oh, I buy her the most expensive gift of her life, but no, I'm bullying.
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Dominic West - Mr. Brittain
Alicia Vikander - Vera Brittain
Emily Watson - Mrs. Brittain

“All of us are surrounded by ghosts. Now we need to learn how to live with them.”
Alexandra Roach - Winifred Holtby

“- Roland Leighton: When we're at Oxford, we'll be able to see each other every day.
- Vera Brittain: I'll be concentrating on my work.
- Roland Leighton: Well, you'll need fresh air, surely. And a chaperone.”
Kit Harington - Roland Leighton
Alicia Vikander - Vera Brittain