Quotes

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A woman plotting her course to freedom. How delightful.

Others

[About Bella] My, what a very pretty retard.

Others

Belle. Whore.

Dialogue

Dr. Godwin Baxter: I can't let you go. Bella Baxter: If you do not, Bella shall turn rotten with hate.

Dialogue

Madame Swiney: We must work. We must make money. But more than that Bella, we must experience everything. Not just the good, but degradation, horror, sadness. This makes us whole Bella, makes us people of substance. Not flighty, untouched children. Then we can know the world. And when we know the world, the world is ours. Bella Baxter: I want that. Madame Swiney: Now go and fuck someone and bring me ten francs.

Dialogue

Duncan Wedderburn: You’re the most beautiful woman I’ve ever seen. I will not lie, I’ve been with many. Bella Baxter: Missus Prim said you were wolf, with scent of a hundred women on you. Duncan Wedderburn: She undersells it, okay. Oysters, have you had them before? Bella Baxter: I have not.

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Duncan Wedderburn: [After she spits out her food] Bella! Bella Baxter: Why keep it in my mouth if it is revolting? Kitty: I've said that before to Gerald. [She laughs]

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Bella Baxter: I am rested, let us go again. Duncan Wedderburn: Again? Unfortunately, even I have my limits. Men cannot keep coming back for more. Bella Baxter: It is a physiological problem? A weakness in men. Duncan Wedderburn: Well... perhaps so.

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Duncan Wedderburn: I will fucking throw you overboard! Bella Baxter: So you wish to marry me, or kill me? Is that the proposal?