The Rachel Papers (1989)

Ione Skye: Rachel Noyce

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Quotes 

• Charles Highway : I notice you don't have a drink.

  RachelNoyce : Are you giving this party?

  Charles Highway : Certainly not. Parties of this kind are not given, they're received.

• Charles Highway : I've been reading... uhm, well, a lot of metaphysical poets recently... but there's this one Elizabethan love couplet, uhm... "Love seeketh only self to please... to bind another to its delight... joys in another's loss of ease... builds a heaven... in hell's..." No, uhm... "Builds a hell in heaven's..."

  RachelNoyce : "Despite."

  Charles Highway : Pardon?

  RachelNoyce : "And builds a hell in heaven's despite." Then it goes "Love seeketh not itself to please... to bind another to its delight... joy at another's loss of ease... and builds a heaven in hell's despite."

  Charles Highway : How did you know that?

  RachelNoyce : Blake's one of my favorite poets.

  Charles Highway : I'm glad you're here.

• RachelNoyce : I thought I might as well make one of you happy.

  Charles Highway : What, me?

  RachelNoyce : If you still want me.

• Charles Highway : [fumbling with bedside precautions, to the tune of 'Electric Moon']  I can never get these damn things on.

  RachelNoyce : Well, it helps if you don't undo it first.