Tied for 2nd most-quoted character in Cold Mountain (2003): in 5 of its 17 quotes
A line from Ada Monroe[reading from Wuthering Heights: My love for Linton is like the foliage in the wood. Time will change it I'm well aware, as winter changes the trees. My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath, a source of little visible delight, but necessary. Nellie, I AM Heathcliff! He's always, always on my mind. Not as a pleasure any more than I am always a pleasure to myself, but as part of my own being.
Ada Monroe To have traveled so far... From east to west, a thousand terrible miles; my feet treading all God's surface - his Ocean, his swamps, his slopes and ridges - to find myself at last a mark in the aching snow from whence I beheld through a blue haze a world of mountains piled upon mountains.
Ada Monroe If you are fighting, stop fighting. If you are marching, stop marching. Come back to me. Come back to me is my request.
Ada Monroe All this while I've been packing ice around my heart. How will I make it melt?
Ada Did you get my letters?
I got three letters. Carried them in the book you gave me, the Bartram.
Ada I probably sent 103. Did you write to me?
Whenever I could. If you never got them I can summarize.
Ada No, it's --
I pray you're well. I pray I'm in your thoughts. You are all that keeps me from sliding into some dark place.
Ada But how did I keep you? We barely knew each other. A few moments --
A thousand moments! They're like a bag of tiny diamonds glittering in a black heart. Don't matter if they're real or things I made up. The shape of your neck. The way you felt under my hands when I pulled you to me.
