Alias Grace (TV Mini Series)

Part 4 (2017)

Sarah Gadon: Grace Marks

Quotes 

• Grace Marks : I thought to myself, if you could not get Divine Grace by praying for it, or any other way, or ever know if you had it or not, then you might as well forget about the whole matter and go about your own business. Because whether you would be damned or saved was of no concern of yours. There is no use crying over spilt milk if you don't know whether the milk is spilt or not. And if God alone knows, then God alone can tidy it up.

• Grace Marks : They are hypocrites, they think the church is a cage to keep God in, so He will stay locked up there and not go wandering about the earth during the week, poking His nose into their business and looking into the depths and doubleness of their hearts and lack of true charity. They believe they need only be bothered about Him on Sundays when they have their best clothes on and their faces straight, and their hands washed and their gloves on, and their stories all prepared. But God is everywhere, and cannot be caged in, as men can.

• Jeremiah Pontelli : We could go to the United States.

  Grace Marks : What's it like there?

  Jeremiah Pontelli : Well, in many ways, it's the same as here. There are rogues and scoundrels everywhere, they merely use a different sort of language to excuse themselves. There they pay great lip service to democracy, just as here they rant on about the right order of society and loyalty to the Queen. And yet the poor are poor on every shore.

• [last lines] 

  Grace Marks : The sheets I'd hung the night before had blown into the trees. It was very unlike me to forget a white laundry that I'd worked so hard at. The nightdresses and shirts did indeed look like angels without heads. It was as if our own clothing was sitting in judgment upon us. And I could not shake the feeling that there was some doom on the house, and that some within were fated to die. If I was given the chance right then, I would have run off with Jeremiah, and better for me if I had. But I did not know where he had gone. I did know that I was walking around outside in the night without knowing it. And my heart sank at this.

  Grace Marks : [now looking up and thinking to herself]  I remember looking up at you after I told this story, Dr. Jordan. And I remember that it did my heart good to feel I could bring some pleasure into a fellow being's life. And I thought to myself, I wonder what you will make of all that.