Killing Me Softly Quotes

Adam Tallis: [as Alice puts on her stockings] Don't turn away.

[looks at her appreciatively]

Adam Tallis: Come here tomorrow.

Alice: [up close together, forehead touching his, longingly:] I have to work.

Adam Tallis: Then come back tonight.

Alice: I can't.

Adam Tallis: Whenever you want, Alice. You decide, and I'll be here.

Adam Tallis: [told her about the painful memories after the incident] It's been two years, and it doesn't go away.

Alice: [kisses him, then confides:] I live with someone.

Adam Tallis: [confidently] But you're here.

Alice: I have to go.

[turns away]

Deborah: [beautiful young woman opening door for Alice, cat in arms] Oh. You were looking for Adam. He's not here right now. But, er, it's cold out there. Come in.

[gestures with head]

Deborah: Please. Come in.

[stands back]

Alice: [as Adam is about to tie her up, alarmed:] What are you doing?

Adam Tallis: What am I doing? I'm making you mine!

[ties Alice to the table]

Alice: Sometimes I feel Ike I don't know you.

Adam Tallis: Oh, you know me. You know everything you need to know.

[grabs her face]

Adam Tallis: Look at me.

[she keeps her eyes closed]

Adam Tallis: Please.

[violent shout:]

Adam Tallis: Open your eyes!

Adam Tallis: [sits looking down at his loosely tied captive] Have you been with another man?

Alice: [smiles] No.

Adam Tallis: [whispers] What are you doing, then, hmm? What's going on in there?

[taps her forehead, then gets up]

Adam Tallis: Why... why do you keep sneaking around? Is... is the suspicion exciting? Do you need it to get off? What is it?

Alice: [sits upright] i found Adèle's letters.

[defiant look]

Adam Tallis: You..."found"... Adèle's letters?

[whispers:]

Adam Tallis: Is that how you tell the story? They were just... sitting with my keys and you happened to notice them?

[rushes up the stairs, promptly returning, scattering letters]

Adam Tallis: Look what I just happened to find. These... and these! And I found these! Here, read them! I have nothing to hide, Alice!

[she lies down, feigning indifference, and he comes down the stairs]

Adam Tallis: Do you sneak around behind my back because you... need it to get rougher and rougher? I mean, is that it? I'm trying to understand you, Alice. Do you do this so I punish you?

[panting breath]

Adam Tallis: Is that where you're going?

Alice: [lies down] Adam... please untie me.

Adam Tallis: If you trusted me...

[rasping breath]

Adam Tallis: you wouldn't be in this position, Alice.

Alice: [sits upright again] I just... I just wanted to know more about you... I wanted to know your past. And I wanted to know your stories. I just thought if I knew more... that I could love you more. I know the only thing that matters is us together. I know that. Because when you're not around, I get lost.

[sad little sniffle]

Adam Tallis: It drives me crazy to think about losing you.

[strokes her bound feet lovingly, and as she lies down flat again, he kisses the nearest foot, sighing:]

Adam Tallis: I'm yours, Alice. What more do you need to know?

[his hands on her throat:]

Adam Tallis: I could break your neck, I love you so much. Do you want to stay here? I mean... do you like this?

Alice: Adam... I have to pee.

Adam Tallis: [to police officers in interrogation room] I would never hurt her. I love her.

Alice: [looking through one-way mirror] You brought him in?

Senior Police Officer: He walked in, looking for you. He brought in a pair of shoes. He was worried about your feet...

[Alice contemplates this]

Senior Police Officer: I believe your husband has the potential for violence. I believe he's unpredictable. But is he a murderer? I don't know. The truth is, what you two have been doing together was consensual. You said it yourself. You liked it.

Alice: [present an idea to her work colleagues] Most of the people using the program are women and we try to sell them a game but women don't like games, women like stories. Men like games, men like to slay the dragon and get the princess but women like to know how did the dragon and the princess all get there in the first place.

Alice's Work Colleague: Gave me a chance to think. We shouldn't be playing games.