Douglas [Reading Jack's inscription from his Narnia book.]
The magic never ends.
Joy Well, if it does, sue him.
Played by Debra Winger 
Shadowlands (1993) · 22 quotes
Shadowlands (1993) · 22 quotes
3rd most-quoted character in Shadowlands (1993): in 5 of its 22 quotes
Most scenes with: Jack (3)
Are you trying to be offensive, or merely stupid?
Scenes with Joy Gresham
4 scenes Douglas Joy Joy Jack don’t you sometimes just burst to share the joke?
What joke ?
Joy Well here's your friends thinking we're unmarried and up to all sorts of wickedness, when all along we're married and up to nothing at all.
Which friends?
Joy God, you can be so hard work sometimes. So what do you do here? Think great thoughts?
Teach mainly.
Joy What do they do? Sit at your feet and gaze up at you in awe?
No, not at all.
Joy I bet they do.
Joy We have some fine old battles in here, I can tell you that.
Joy Which you win. Must be quite a boost for you, being older and wiser than all of them. Not to mention your readers.
What?
Joy Your readers and that gang of friends of yours. All very well trained not to play out of bounds.
What are you talking about?
Joy Of course there’s Warnie. Not much competition there.
That’s nonsense. And what about Christopher Riley. He never let’s me get away with anything, you know that.
Joy Except doubt and fear and pain and terror.
Where did all that come from?
Joy I’ve only now just seen it how you’ve arranged a life for yourself where no one can touch you. Everyone that’s close to you is either younger than you, or weaker than you, or under your control.
Why…why are you getting at me? I thought..I thought we were friends?
Joy I don’t know that we are friends not the way you have friends anyway. Sorry, Jack.
I don’t understand.
Joy No, I think you do. You just don’t like it, nor do I.
I want to marry you Joy, I want to marry you before God and the world.
Joy Make an honest woman out of me?
No not you. It’s me that hasn’t been honest. Look what it takes me to see sense.
Joy You think I have overdone it?
Please don’t leave me, Joy.
Joy You know Jack, back where I come from there's this quaint old custom. When a guy makes up his mind to marry a girl, he asks her. It's called proposing.
It’s the same here.
Joy Did I miss it?
Will you marry this foolish, frightened old man... who needs you more than he can bear to say... who loves you, even though he hardly knows how?
Joy Just this once.
Joy We almost made it.
Now I don’t want to be somewhere else anymore. Not waiting for anything new to happen. Not looking around the next corner, not the next hill. Here now. That’s enough.
Joy That’s your kind of happy, isn’t it?
Yes. Yes it is.
Joy It is not going to last, Jack.
We shouldn’t think about that now. Lets’ not spoil the time we have together.
Joy It doesn’t spoil it. I makes it real. Let me just say it before this rain stops, and we go back.
What’s there to say?
Joy That I’m going to die and I want to go with you then, too. The only way I can do that is if I’m able to talk to you about it now.
I’ll manage somehow. Don’t worry about me.
Joy No, I think it can be better than just managing. What I am trying to say is that the pain then is part of the happiness now. That’s the deal.
