1.
Carol: Forgive me, shopping makes me nervous.
Therese: That’s all right, working here makes me nervous.
2.
“My angel. Flung out of space.”
– Carol (Cate Blanchett)
3.
Abby: Tell me you know what you’re doing.
Carol: I don’t. I never did.
4.
And do you live alone, Therese Belivet?
Carol
I do. Well, there’s Richard, he’d like to live with me. Oh no, it’s nothing like that, I mean he’d like to marry me.
And would you like to marry him?
Well, I barely even know what to order for lunch.
5.
“So that’s the deal. I won’t, I cannot negotiate anymore. You take it or leave it. But if you leave it, we go to court. And if we go to court… it’ll get ugly. And we’re not ugly people, Harge.”
– Carol (Cate Blanchett)
6.
“Isn’t [talent] something other people let you know you have? All you can do is keep working. Use what feels right. Throw away the rest.”
– Carol (Cate Blanchett)
7.
“Wine makes me feel naughty; but, in a good way.”
– Therese (Rooney Mara)
8.
“There was a time when I would have done almost anything. I would have locked myself away to keep Rindy with me. What use am I to her, to us, if I’m living against my own grain?”
– Carol (Cate Blanchett)
9.
Dannie: All of us, you know, we have affinities for people. We like certain people. You like certain people, right?
Therese: Sometimes.
Dannie: You don’t like others. And you don’t know why you are attracted to some people and not others. The only thing you really know is – you either are attracted or you’re not.
10.
Abby: I got my eye on this redhead who owns a steak house outside of Paramus. I’m talking serious ‘Rita Hayworth’ redhead.
Carol: Really? You think you got what it takes to handle a redhead?
11.
Harge: Dammit! I put nothing past women like you, Carol.
Carol: You married a woman like me.
12.
“Harge, I want you to be happy. I didn’t give you that. I failed you. We both could have given more, but… we gave each other Rindy. And that is the most breathtaking, the most generous, of gifts.”
– Carol (Cate Blanchett)
13.
Therese: You don’t understand!
Richard: Oh, I do. I understand completely. You’re in a trance!
Therese: I’m wide awake! I’ve never been more awake in my life! Why don’t you leave me alone!
14.
Anyway, the apartment’s a nice big one. It’s big enough for two. I was hoping you might like to come live with me, but I guess you won’t. Would you?
Carol
15.
Therese: What do you write about?
Dannie: People
Therese: I always feel funny taking pictures of people like it’s some sort of…
Dannie: Invasion of privacy?