Because They're Young (1960)

Victoria Shaw: Joan Dietrich

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• Joan Dietrich : I am not jealous of your friendship with the students. I'm afraid of it... for you and for me. You're gonna get hurt. I can't stop you. But if I let myself love you...

  Neil Hendry : Let yourself? You can't play that by the rules.

  Joan Dietrich : Oh, can't I? I've had stars in my eyes too. I lost them the hard way. I don't intend to go through that again.

  Neil Hendry : Again?

  Joan Dietrich : You know why I left teaching?

  Neil Hendry : No. I wish I did.

  Joan Dietrich : I knew a teacher very much like you once. Jerry loved his students, fought for them, and refused to believe that there was anyone who couldn't be helped if he tried hard enough. He was always so happy when one of them seemed to be responding. One day a 14 year old girl was attacked in the school corridor. One of his successess. The next morning they found Jerry in the courtyard. He had fallen. It was a four-story building.

  Neil Hendry : So, you came out here?

  Joan Dietrich : Have shell, will travel.

  Neil Hendry : But you can't live inside of it forever. If you do, you wind up shutting everybody out.

  Joan Dietrich : If I have to. It's safer, isn't it?

  Neil Hendry : And lonelier.