Quotes from Jack Lowden movies and TV shows

Dr. Rivers: Why not?
Siegfried Sassoon: Too afraid, too inhibited. Shamed by an inner corruption. Or perhaps it's simply because of... What's the phrase? The love that dare not speak its name.
Dr. Rivers: You are not alone in that respect.

Siegfried Sassoon: I think he's still in love with you.
Ivor Novello: The main drawback with love is that it descends, all too quickly, into possessiveness.

Siegfried Sassoon: Why do all the worst terrors come at night?
Dr. Rivers: The night is, I think, like the unconscious. Waiting all day so that it can steal over you in the dark.

Dr. Rivers: I've always thought that politicians were too stupid to be subtle.
Siegfried Sassoon: Perhaps they're just too subtle to be inelegant.

Siegfried Sassoon: Pain is not the only terror. There are many more.
Dr. Rivers: Can you name them?
Siegfried Sassoon: If I could name them, they would cease to be terrors.

Siegfried Sassoon: Bravery is only cowardice in extremis. At the root of bravery lies terror, and the fear of fear.

Dr. Rivers: I trust after this disclosure, you will be discreet.
Siegfried Sassoon: Discretion is my middle name.

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