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.

— C. S. Lewis (Anthony Hopkins)

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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.

Quote context

[...]

- 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.

[...]

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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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