Nora Quotes S1

• 'A comfortably and tastefully, but not expensively furnished room.'
• 'She is wearing outdoor clothes and carrying a lot of parcels, which she puts down on the table right.'
• 'Hide that Christmas tree away, Helen.'
• 'Nora closes the door. She continues to laugh happily to herself as she removes her coat, etc
• 'She tiptoes across and listens at her husbands door'
• Nora - 'It's the first Christmas we don't have to scrape.'
• 'Them? Who cares about them? They're strangers.'
• (Turn quickly) Money!
• 'new clothes for Ivar - and a sword.'
• 'horse and a trumpet for Bob'
• 'a doll and a cradle for Emmy'
• 'Squanderbird; I know.'
• 'you know I could never go against your wishes'
• “Oh, Pooh, I don’t want anything.”
• Plays with his coat buttons
• “You could give me money, Torvald”
• 'Poor Christine, you've become a widow.
• 'I have three lovely children. I'm afraid you can't see them now, because they're out with Nanny.'
• 'my husband's just been made vice-president of the bank!'
• 'It's lovely to have heaps of money and not have to worry about anything.'
• '[Torvald] became frightfully ill.'
• 'we got it from my father [the money for Italy]'
• her fathers death was 'the saddest things that's happened to me since I got married'
• (Jumps up and claps her hands.) 'Oh God, oh God, Christine, isn't it a wonderful thing to be alive and happy! Oh but how beastly of me! I'm only talking about myself... Oh please don't be angry with me!
• 'is it really true you didn't love your husband? Why did you marry him, then?'
• ‘I’ll lead up to it so delicately, so delicately’
• “Fancy work, crocheting, embroidery”
• I could have got it from an admirer. When a girl’s as pretty as I am —‘
• ‘he’s so proud of being a man — it’s be so painful and humiliating for him to know that he owed anything to me.’
• “That’s dreadfully exhausting; and you look practically finished already”
• “I’ll get him in the right mood”
• “It was I who saved Torvalds life”
• Hums and smiles secretively. “Hm; tra la la la ”
• “You’re dying of curiosity now”
• “He’s so proud of being a man”
• “This life we have built together would no longer exist”
• “Years from now, when I’m no longer pretty… when torvald no longer loves me as he does now; when it no longer amuses him to see me dance and dress up and play the fool for him. Then it might be useful to have something up my sleeve.”
• “I often got so tired, so tired. But it was great fun, sitting there working and earning money. It was almost like being a man”
• “It’s awfully difficult to keep an exact check on these kind of transactions”
• ‘I can play all day with children, I can fill the house with pretty things, just the way Torvald likes.’