Lost Horizon (1937) · 29 quotes
3rd most-quoted character in Lost Horizon (1937): in 5 of its 29 quotes
Most scenes with: Robert Conway (3)
You're absolutely right. And I had to come all the way to a pigeon house in Shangri-La to find the only other person in the world who knew it. May I congratulate you?
Sondra Bizet I saw a man whose life was empty...Oh I know, it was full of this and full of that. But you were accomplishing nothing. You were going nowhere, and you knew it. As a matter of fact, all I saw was a little boy whistling in the dark.
Of course, I can't quite get used to this age thing.
Sondra I'm thirty.
Oh, you're gonna make life very simple. It's inconceivable.
Sondra What?
All of it. Father Perrault and his magnificent history. This place hidden away from the rest of the world with its glorious concepts. And now you come along and confuse me entirely.
Sondra Oh, I'm sorry. I thought I was to be the light. But why do I confuse you? Am I so strange?
Oh, on the contrary, you're not strange. And that, in itself, is confusing. I had the same idea about, about Shangri-La. A sense that I've been here before, that I belonged here.
Sondra I'm so glad.
I can't quite explain it, but everything is somehow familiar. The very air I breathe, the Lamasery with its feet rooted in the good earth of this fertile valley while its head explores the eternal. All the beautiful things I see - these cherry blossoms, you. All are somehow familiar. I've been kidnapped and brought here against my will. A crime, a great crime, yet I accept it amiably, with the same warm amiability one tolerates only from a very dear and close friend. Why? Can you tell me why?
Sondra Perhaps because you've always been a part of Shangri-La without knowing it.
I wonder.
Sondra I'm sure of it, just as I'm sure there's a wish for Shangri-La in everyone's heart. I've never seen the outside world, but I understand there are millions and millions of people who are supposed to be mean and greedy. And I just know that secretly, they're all hoping to find a garden spot where there's peace, security, where there's beauty and comfort, where they wouldn't have to be mean and greedy. Oh, I just wish the whole world might come to this valley.
Then it wouldn't be a garden spot for long.
I'm waiting for the bump.
Sondra Bump?
When the plane lands at Shanghai and wakes us all up. [Sondra pinches his arm] Ouch!
Sondra You see, it's not a dream.
You know, I sometimes think that the other is the dream, the outside world.
Sondra I knew you'd come. And I knew when you did, you'd never leave. Am I forgiven for sending for you?
Forgiven. [He kisses her forehead]
