Portrait of Jennie
1948
Jennie Appleton: I know we were meant to be together. The strands of our lives are woven together and neither the world nor time can tear them apart.
Jennie Appleton: I hate for it to stop, because when will we ever have it again?
Jennie Appleton: (singing) Where I come from nobody knows and where I am going everything goes. The wind blows, the sea flows, nobody knows. And where I am going, nobody knows.
Jennie Appleton: I wish that you would wait for me to grow up so that we could always be together.
Mrs Jekes: I just can't understand a man fiddling away his time just painting things. Of course he did shovel some snow to pay part of last month's rent. Mrs Bunce: Painting things? Women? Women in the... Mrs Jekes: Mrs Bunce, we agreed that he was a gentleman and gentleman just don't paint "women in the... " Mrs Bunce: (flustered) No, of course not.
Prologue: Since time began man has looked into the awesome reaches of infinity and asked the eternal question: What is time? What is life? What is space? What is death? Through a hundred civilizations, philosophers and scientists have come together with answers, but the bewilderment remains... Science tells us that nothing ever dies but only changes, that time itself does not pass but curves around us, and that the past and the future are together at our side for ever. Out of the shadows of knowledge, and out of a painting that hung on a museum wall, comes our story, the truth of which lies not on our screen but in your hearts.
Eben Adams: I want you, not dreams of you!
Jennie Appleton: There is no life, my darling, until you love and have been loved. And then there is no death.