Quotes for
John Christow (Character)
from "Agatha Christie: Poirot" (1989)

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"Agatha Christie: Poirot: The Hollow (#9.4)" (2004)

Veronica Cray: Are you saying you don't love me?
John Christow: You are a very, very alluring woman, Veronica, but I don't "love you," no.
Veronica Cray: I came all this way to find you; waiting in this ghastly hovel for the weekend you'd appear. You see, I knew if we could be just once more together... just one more...
John Christow: You? You planned it?
Veronica Cray: Oh, you belong to me, John. You're mine.
John Christow: When I was a young man, I WANTED you to share my life and you wouldn't do it!
Veronica Cray: Because MY career was so much more important than yours. I mean, anyone can be a "doctor"!
John Christow: You're a nasty piece of work...
[begins to walk away]
Veronica Cray: You leave me again and I really will make you sorry!
John Christow: So be it.
[long pause]
John Christow: Goodbye.
[walks out]
Veronica Cray: I hate you more than I thought I could hate anyone!
[throws whisky glass after him]

John Christow: Would you give it all up, if I asked you to, and come and live with me?
Henrietta Savernake: No.
John Christow: No?
Henrietta Savernake: That's not really what you want.
John Christow: Couldn't you lie to me just once?
Henrietta Savernake: Why?
John Christow: Because I love you, Henrietta, but you're so... you're so detached. Your art, your cars, your friends... I want you to think only of me.
Henrietta Savernake: Isn't that what Gerda does?
John Christow: Don't tell me you care a damn about Gerda!
Henrietta Savernake: Why not? I like Gerda.

John Christow: [last words before dying] Henrietta...

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