War & Peace (TV Series)

Two Meetings (1973)

Morag Hood: Natasha Rostova

Quotes 

• Natasha Rostova : Oh, why do these things have to happen? Why can't people just fall in love and marry and be left alone?

  Sonya : It's always me. If there's anything to be given up, Sonya will give it up. There's enough for all except one. Let Sonya go without. She won't mind.

  Natasha Rostova : Well, Sonya, it hasn't always been like that, now, has it?

  Sonya : Well, what do you know about it? When have you ever had to make a sacrifice? Of anything? No, Natasha is special. Natasha is loved by everyone. Everything must be sacrificed for her.

  Natasha Rostova : That isn't true, Sonya. Don't say that.

  Sonya : Well, I haven't minded. You've been good to me all of your life. I've never denied it. I've even enjoyed making the sacrifices, because it made me feel as if I was repaying you all for letting me be here.

  Natasha Rostova : We don't want you to repay us.

  Sonya : Yes, you do. You all do in your own ways. Except Nikolai. Well, I didn't ask him to say that he loved me. I'd have been happy if he'd never looked on me as anything but just a friend. But he does love me. And he told me. And that meant more to me than all my life put together! I'd give up anything for this family, even my life! But I won't give up Nikolai! I won't!

• Countess Rostova : Do you think it right in his condition to upset him?

  Natasha Rostova : I don't think I would. I just want to ask him to forgive me for what I've done.

  Countess Rostova : Men with pride like his never forgive a woman.

• Sonya : Oh, why couldn't you have married Prince Andrei like you were supposed to, and then none of this would have happened!

  Natasha Rostova : You have no right to say that to me.

  Sonya : Well, it's true. If you had kept your word, remained faithful, then none of this would have happened. But it wasn't enough for you to be engaged to a man like that. You had to be married at once. You had to have everything when you wanted it. Because that's the way it's been all your life. Everything now, when you wanted it. And it doesn't matter about anyone else. Well, I would wait all my life for Nikolai. Because I love him. The way Prince Andrei loved you.

  Natasha Rostova : You don't have to remind me of that, Sonya. I've been punished enough. Not a day passes that I don't punish myself for what I've done. You think I don't know how much I've hurt him? There are times when I pray I could see him just once again... ask him to forgive me for what I've done. If he were here now, I would go down on my knees.

  Sonya : Then go and see him. He's here now.

• Natasha Rostova : I could have seen him!

  Countess Rostova : Why?

  Natasha Rostova : There are things I have to say to him!

  Countess Rostova : Why should he want to hear them? Are you still in love with him?

  Natasha Rostova : What difference does it make?

  Countess Rostova : Are you?

  Natasha Rostova : Yes.

  Countess Rostova : That's all the more reason why you shouldn't see him.