Sleeping with the Enemy 1991 quotes

Ben

I saw you in town yesterday. You were going into Walgreens.

Laura

Oh, yeah?

Ben

Yeah. I called out your name. You didn't even blink.

Laura

Maybe I didn't hear you.

Ben

Your name isn't Sara Waters, is it?

Laura

Maybe I didn't hear you.

Ben

No, you heard me. Look, I know this is crazy. I hardly know you really, but...I like you. I do. I just...I don't know how to feel what I'm feeling when I don't even know your name.

Laura

People never really know each other, Ben.

Ben

It doesn't have to be that way. Give it a chance.

Laura

I can't. I'm sorry.

Ben

What are you afraid of?

Laura

What is it with men?

Ben

Don't do that. Look, I gotta know. We're either honest with each other or it doesn't happen. It just stops right here.

Laura

It never started.

Laura

Mrs. Clark called from the library. She said they could use me full time now.

Martin

You already work three mornings a week, and I support that because I know your love of books. What about our home? Don't you love our home as much?

Laura

Has your dinner been late to the table even once?

Martin

Oh, I can remember not so far back it was late. By two days.

Laura

That was six months ago. My mother was all I had. I'll never forgive myself for not bringing her to live with us.

Martin

You shouldn't beat yourself up. You always treated her with love.

Laura

She died, Martin. How could I not go to her funeral?

Martin

If you had told me, I would have taken you, given me a chance to pay my last respects. But you sneaked off inexplicably.

Laura

I didn't sneak off.

Martin

Need I remind you how I worried?

Laura

No. You reminded me enough the night I came back.

Martin

You're not suggesting I enjoyed that?

Laura

God, no. That would make you a monster.

Martin

He doesn't matter. He's nothing, Laura. Nothing.

Ben

**** you.

Martin

What's his name?

Laura

Ben. Martin, he...

Martin

He doesn't have anything to do with us, does he, princess? Does he?

Laura

No.

Martin

Remember our honeymoon. The night I taught you to dance. Of course you haven't forgotten. You said those were the happiest days of your whole life. [holds up her wedding ring] Remember this? This is yours, Laura. We are one. We will always be one. Nothing can keep us apart.

Martin

Hello, princess. It's wonderful to see ya...alive. That's the first touch after so long apart. Have you been thinking of it too?

Ben

Sara? Are you there?

Laura

No...

Martin

I'll kill him.

Ben

Can you hear me?

Laura

Just a second.

Ben

Hi.

Laura

Hi.

Ben

It's tomorrow. 12:01. I couldn't wait.

Laura

Ben, I'm just so tired.

Ben

Still spooked by ghosts, huh?

Laura

They're all around me.

Ben

How about I come in?

Laura

It's really not a good time, OK?

Mr. Burney? You have a call.

Martin

I told you to hold my calls.

I know. But she says she knew your wife.

Martin

Put her through. Hello?

Hello, Mr. Burney. My name is Vanessa Shelley.

Martin

Yes?

I hope I'm not disturbing you. I just heard about Laura, and I wanted to call and tell you how much we'll miss her.

Martin

Thank you. How did you know her?

From the YWCA.

Martin

No, you must be speaking of someone else. My wife never went to the YWCA.

No. No, we took swimming there Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 9 am.

Martin

Look, there's obviously some mistake. My wife drowned. She couldn't swim.

Well, at first she couldn't. But she became a good swimmer.

Martin

I'm sure you have the wrong woman.

This is odd. Mr. Burney, your wife studied gymnastics, didn't she?

Martin

No, my wife never studied gymnastics.

That's strange. She told us that's how she got all those terrible bruises. Mr. Burney, I don't understand it. I'm sorry if I've bothered you. This is just so confu...

Martin

Shit. Shit!

Woman

You visitin' out here?

Laura

My mom's by herself in a nursing home. She's blind and can't move her left side very well. She had a stroke.

Woman

I'm sorry to hear that. You live back East?

Laura

I was visiting an old friend. She needed me.

Woman

Sick, was she? [pause] Course, it's none of my business.

Laura

She left her husband. He was a horrible man. He used to beat her.

Woman

No!

Laura

It started right after their honeymoon. At first he was charming, tender. But it all changed. He said if she left him he would punish her, and he meant it. His punishments were terrible. He would never let her go. Said he could find her anywhere.

Woman

Couldn't she call the police?

Laura

Well, she did. She called them, and a lawyer too. They said she could make a citizen's arrest, get a restraining order. It was pathetic.

Woman

Well, how did she leave?

Laura

She risked everything. Escaped. Started a new life.

Woman

Brave girl.

Laura

She thinks she's a coward.

Woman

A coward? Not a girl like that.

Martin Burney

Take that chance.

Laura Burney

Come quickly. I've just killed an intruder.

Laura Burney

That was the night that I died, and someone else was saved. Someone who was afraid of water, but learned to swim. Someone who knew there would be one moment, where he wouldn't be watching. Someone who knew that the darkness of the broken lights would show the way.

Martin Burney

There's the telephone. You could call the police. I know your every thought, Laura. You're wondering if they can protect you. Who knows? They may issue an order instructing me to stay away from my own wife. Nothing can keep me away. I love you, Laura. I can't live without you. And I won't let you live without me.