The Jane Austen Book Club (2007)

Kathy Baker: Bernadette

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• Bernadette : All Jane Austen, all the time. It's the perfect antidote.

  Prudie Drummond : To what?

  Bernadette : To life.

• Prudie Drummond : I'm in love with one of my students. I mean, nothing's happened, much. It could if I let it... I fantasize about him constantly.

  Bernadette : Sweetie, your mother died. This is grief.

  Prudie Drummond : He looks at me like he's the spoon, and I'm this dish of ice cream.

• Bernadette : Let us never underestimate the power of a well-written letter.

• Bernadette : How's Sylvia doing without Daniel?

  Allegra : She's still stuck in the wounded stage. When she's ready for anger, I'm so there.

• Bernadette : Our world is an English village.

• Prudie Drummond : He looks at me like he is the spoon and I am the dish of ice-cream.

  Bernadette : It's a good thing we're reading Sense and Sensibility next.

• Jocelyn : Sex is messy. Maybe Mrs. Dashwood prefers a more well-ordered life.

  Grigg Harris : Maybe that's why she's such a minor character.

  Jocelyn : I think if you read Austen's novels...

  Grigg Harris : Oh, I have. You wanted me to, and I did.

  Jocelyn : I think you'll see she always writes in favor of order and self-control. Nothing unwise.

  Grigg Harris : So what, this is a rulebook?

  Bernadette : We could do worse.

• Jocelyn : I'm warning you, if Grigg starts making little remarks, I'm gonna walk out.

  Bernadette : You two just keep it together for one more book.