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I don't mean to say that friendship is a small thing. I rate it as one of this life's most precious gifts, but it shouldn't be turned into a watered-down version of something that it's not, such as, to give you an example, romantic love.

20 seconds sound clip from the Shadowlands movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:56:41.417 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

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[...]

- What sort of things do you want me to say?

- Well, Jack, I want to remain friends with you, so I need to know if there's anything that makes that hard for you.

- I see.

- We might as well know where we are.

- You never can really tell what's going on between people, can you? People jump to conclusions.

- Sometimes it makes me quite angry the way people aren't allowed to be...

- What?

- You know, just friends.

- What, like us, you mean.

- Like us.

- I don't mean to say that friendship is a small thing. I rate it as one of this life's most precious gifts, but it shouldn't be turned into a watered-down version of something that it's not, such as, to give you an example, romantic love.

- That's not to say that friendship isn't, in its way...

- A kind of love.

- A kind of love. See? I knew you'd understand.

- Oh, I understand more than that, Jack.

- Could you open this?

- Yeah.

- You're a bachelor, and I'm a divorced woman. Now, some people would imagine that you have romantic intentions towards me.

- You have no such intentions. You want that out in the open because you care about me, and you don't want me to be hurt.

[...]

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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