- Timothy Haslam: You can no more separate love from hate than you can separate the two sides of a coin. To possess one is to possess the other.
- Marianne Patourel: [Discussing William's love for Marguerite] But when you wrote to my father you lied. You asked for my hand in marriage.
- William Ozanne: I didn't lie. Listen to me, Marianne. I love you.
- Marianne Patourel: Listen to more lies! You never loved me! You loved *her*. But you sent for me. Why?
- William Ozanne: It wasn't a lie. It was o...
- Marianne Patourel: Why did you send for me?
- William Ozanne: I'll tell you, Marianne. Now I must tell you. I never wanted you to know. I never thought you would ever find out. But now...
- Marianne Patourel: What did you never want me to find out?
- William Ozanne: That I accidentally wrote your name instead of Marguerite's in the letter to your father.
- Marianne Patourel: [She looks crushed] You accidentally wrote my name? Our whole marriage has been a... slip of the pen?
- William Ozanne: Marianne...
- Marianne Patourel: Does Marguerite know of-of your slip of the pen?
- William Ozanne: No. Absolutely not. I never even so much as hinted anything. Oh, please. Believe me, Marianne. I never told a living soul. Well, that's not quite true. I told Tai Haruru.
- [She looks moritfied]
- William Ozanne: I had to tell him.
- Marianne Patourel: Tai Haruru knew? He knew that you hated me. I thought I reached the lowest depths of degradation. But I didn't expect this. So, Tai knew. Course he knew. Now I understand everything. Why you never would've married me if he hadn't forced you into it. Would you, William?
- [He turns away guiltily]
- Marianne Patourel: Oh, William. William don't ever speak to me again!
- Marianne Patourel: Goodbye William. You would look much more like a human being, if you combed your hair.
- Octavius Patourel: [to Sophie] If I had thought that Edmond Ozanne could make you happy, I would never have married you. But I didn't believe in his love, and I did believe in mine. I believed I'd be a better husband, a better father.