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Sue: Haven't we been punished enough?
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Sue Bridehead: Please don't call me a clever girl, Mr. Phillotson, there are too many of us about these days.
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Sue: Why are you looking at me like that?
Jude Fawley: Does it scare you?
Sue: No. I am not afraid of any man.
Jude Fawley: Why?
Sue: Because no man would touch a woman unless she gives him reason to. A touch or a look that say come on. If you never look, they'll never come. You are the timid sex.
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[Sue has just spurned Jude again]
Sue Bridehead: Promise me you'll never stop trying.
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Sue Bridehead: It's right that I suffer.
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Sue: I would have liked to have talked with her before she died.
Jude Fawley: She would have enjoyed that.
Sue: What did she say?
Jude Fawley: She said we both made bad husbands and wives
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Sue: Do I irritate you?
Jude Fawley: No.
Sue: Even though I'm always trying to prove how much cleverer than you I am.
Jude Fawley: You are!
Sue: Don't say that!
Jude Fawley: Why not?
Sue: Because it's not the sort of thing you should admit to!
Jude Fawley: Even if it's true?
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Sue Bridehead: They locked me up for being out with you, so I jumped out of the window, climbed over a fence, crossed the deepest river in England and here I am!
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[last lines]
Jude Fawley: We are man and wife, if ever two people were on this earth.
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Sue: You're still Joseph, the dreamer of dreams. And the tragic Don Quixote. Sometimes you are a St. Stephen, who sees Heaven open up, even as they're stoning him.
Jude Quotes
Extended Reading
