- Why don't you run away?
- I've often thought about it, but I can't abandon my children.

8 seconds sound clip from the Matilda (1996) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:56:15.689 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- This is the cottage from your story.

- Yes.

- The young woman is you.

- But then... No.

- Yes. Aunt Trunchbull.

- When I left my home, Aunt Trunchbull's home I had to leave all my treasures behind.

- Treasures?

- Photographs of my mother and father and a beautiful doll my mother gave me with a china face. Lissy Doll, I called her.

- Would you like some milk?

- Yes, please.

- Why don't you run away?

- I've often thought about it, but I can't abandon my children.

- And if I couldn't teach, I'd have nothing at all.

- You're very brave, Miss Honey.

- Not as brave as you.

- I thought grownups weren't afraid of anything.

- Quite the contrary. All grownups get scared, just like children.

- I wonder what Miss Trunchbull is afraid of.

[...]

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