Crime and Punishment (1935)

Marian Marsh: Sonya

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• Roderick Raskolnikov : [Looking down at the water]  I wonder how many poor devils have found an answer to their questions down there. If only the dead could ever come back.

  Sonya : They have!

  [goes inside to fetch a book, returns] 

  Sonya : Remember the Raising of Lazarus?

  Roderick Raskolnikov : [Takes Bible, turns it over and hands it back]  Are you happy to have your Bible back?

  Sonya : [excited]  Would you like me to read the Raising of Lazarus?

  Roderick Raskolnikov : [They go inside]  I can't understand you Sonya, how can you continue living like this?

  Sonya : I believe in God.

  Roderick Raskolnikov : What have you or I to hope for out of life?

  Sonya : Don't take away my faith - I need it.

  Roderick Raskolnikov : Don't take away my un-belief - I need that!

• Sonya : I forgot that there was still some kindness in the world. Thank you.

  Roderick Raskolnikov : I forgot there was still some beauty in it.

• Sonya : I do this almost every night. Come out here and look down at the water. Sometimes the water seems full of stars. And then I feel like I can put this bucket down and pull up a whole pailful of them.

  Roderick Raskolnikov : You're lonely, aren't you?

  Sonya : You are too.

• Roderick Raskolnikov : [seeing Sonya searching for something a the bottom of the stair]  What did you lose?

  Sonya : [referring to the pawnbroker]  A ruble. It dropped out of my hand when she pushed me out of the door.

  Roderick Raskolnikov : [with bitternes]  Someone ought to push her into the next world!