Alias Grace (TV Mini Series)

Part 6 (2017)

Sarah Gadon: Grace Marks

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• Grace Marks : [narrating]  As Mary Whitney used to say, "A little white lie is a small price to pay for peace and quiet."

• Grace Marks : Were you talking to people, trying to find out if I was guilty? You wouldn't find it out that way. You don't understand yet that guilt comes to you not from the things you have done, but from the things others have done to you. You were getting thinner. I believed you were prey to some nagging sorrow.

• Grace Marks : [narrating] 

  [after humming Amazing Grace] 

  Grace Marks : I wonder if I was named after the hymn. I hope I was named after it. I would like to be found. I would like to see. Or be seen. I wonder if in the eye of God, it amounts to the same thing. As it says in the Bible, "For now, we see through a glass, darkly, "but then face to face."If it is face to face, there must be two looking.

• Grace Marks : [narrating]  It was strange to realize that I would not be a celebrated murderess anymore. But seen perhaps as an innocent woman wrongly accused and imprisoned unjustly. And an object of pity, rather than of horror and fear. It took me some days to get used to the idea. It calls for a different arrangement of the face.

  Grace Marks : [bell tolls]  I wished to turn and look back, but I remembered Lot's wife. I did indeed have a sort of regret. For the penitentiary was the only home I'd known for almost 30 years. To go from a familiar thing into the unknown is always a matter for apprehension. And I suppose that is why so many people are afraid to die.

• Grace Marks : [writing to Simon]  You were as eager as Mr. Walsh to hear about my sufferings in life. Your cheeks would flush and if you'd had ears like a dog, they would have been pricked forward, with your eyes shining and your tongue hanging out as if you'd found a grouse in the bush.

• [last lines] 

  Grace Marks : [writing to Simon]  Although I have made many quilts in my day, I am finally making one for myself. The pattern of this quilt is called "The Tree of Paradise," and I am changing it a little to suit my own ideas. On my Tree of Paradise, I intend to put a border of snakes. Without a snake or two, the main part of the story would be missing.

  Grace Marks : The tree itself is of triangles in two colors, dark for the leaves and a lighter color for the fruits. But three of the triangles in my tree will be different. One will be red, from the petticoat I still have that was Mary Whitney's. One will be faded yellowish, from my prison nightdress. And the third will be a pale pink cotton, cut from the dress of Nancy's that she had on the first day I was at Mr. Kinnear's and that I wore when I was running away. I will embroider around each one of them, to blend them in as part of the pattern. And so, we will all be together.

  Simon's Mother : [finishing reading to comatose Simon]  And so we will all be together. - Grace

• Grace Marks : You don't understand yet that guilt comes to you not from the things you have done, but from the things others have done to you.