“This is going to sound sick, but something in me felt... entitled....” – Sheba Hart, Notes on a Scandal ... Movie Quotes Database

[to Barbara]

This is going to sound sick, but something in me felt... entitled. You know, I've been good all my adult life. I've been a decent wife, a dutiful mother coping with Ben. This voice inside me kept saying "why shouldn't you be bad, why shouldn't you transgress? I mean, you've earned the right."

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Richard Hart I knew who you were when we met. You were young. I knew it might get tough, but I was prepared. You're a good mother, but at times you've been a **** lousy wife. Why didn't you come to me? You could have told me how lonely you were. You never trusted me to help you. I'm not saying I was so **** fabulous, but I was here. Barbara Covett People trust me with their secrets. But who do I trust with mine? You, only you. Barbara Covett Here come the local pubescent proles. The future plumbers, shop assistants, and doubtless the odd terrorist too. In the old days, we confiscated cigarettes and wank mags. Now it's knives and crack cocaine. And they call it progress.