He takes the romantic view. If you love someone, you marry them. I'm Number Two. He wants me to give him a divorce so he can marry Number Three.

— Joy Davidman (Debra Winger)

8 seconds sound clip from the Shadowlands movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:44:26.923 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- Well, you must not think I'm much of a mother, not letting her son call his father on Christmas Day.

- Oh, that. That's none of my...

- It just doesn't... It's not... It isn't what it looks like. That's all.

- I see.

- And thank you for not asking.

- Not asking what?

- What's this woman doing chasing all over England without her husband?

- Oh, that.

- I ran away. It's always a mistake, isn't it? I mean, you have to face things in the end.

- I left home because Bill fell in love with another woman.

- He takes the romantic view. If you love someone, you marry them. I'm Number Two. He wants me to give him a divorce so he can marry Number Three.

- I see.

- Bill's an alcoholic.

- He's compulsively unfaithful.

- And he's sometimes violent, and I guess I haven't loved him for years.

- He's violent?

- Only when he's drunk and he doesn't really know what he's doing.

[...]

Shadowlands Sound Clip

Shadowlands film poster

Sound bites of the best quotes from the 1993 film Shadowlands.

Actors: Anthony Hopkins (C. S. Lewis), Debra Winger (Joy Davidman), Edward Hardwicke (Warren Lewis), Joseph Mazzello (Douglas Gresham)

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