Portrait of Jennie (1948)

Jennifer Jones: Jennie Appleton

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Quotes 

• Jennie Appleton : There is no life, my darling, until you love and have been loved. And then there is no death.

• Jennie Appleton : I know we were meant to be together. The strands of our lives are woven together and neither the world nor time can tear them apart.

• Jennie Appleton : [singing]  Where I come from nobody knows and where I am going everything goes. The wind blows, the sea flows, nobody knows. And where I am going, nobody knows.

• Jennie Appleton : Eben... I want always just to sit and watch you paint.

  Eben Adams : Now that I've found the perfect model, I'll paint her again and again.

  Jennie Appleton : No, I - - I didn't mean that... I mean I want you to paint all the beautiful things in the world.

  Eben Adams : [smiles, holds her tight]  You're the most beautiful thing in the world.

• Jennie Appleton : I wish that you would wait for me to grow up so that we could always be together.

• Jennie Appleton : How beautiful the world is Eben! The sun goes down in in the same lovely sky. Just as it did yesterday, and will tomorrow.

  Eben Adams : When is tomorrow, Jenny?

  Jennie Appleton : Does it matter? It's always. This was tomorrow once.

• Jennie Appleton : I hate for it to stop, because when will we ever have it again?

• Jennie Appleton : [to Eben]  The strands of our lives are woven together.The world nor time can part us.