Daily Dialogue — March 28, 2010

Ilsa: But what about us?
Rick: We’ll always have Paris. We didn’t have, we lost it until you came to Casablanca. We got it back last night.
Ilsa: When I said I would never leave you.
Rick: And you never will. But I’ve got a job to do, too. Where I’m going, you can’t follow. What I’ve got to do, you can’t be any part of. Ilsa, I’m no good at being noble, but it doesn’t take much to see that the problems of three little people don’t amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world. Someday you’ll understand that. Now, now… Here’s looking at you kid.

 — Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart) and Ilsa Lund (Ingrid Bergman), Casablanca (1942), screenplay by Julius J. Epstein & Philip G. Epstein and Howard Koch, based on a play by Murray Burnett & Joan Alison

This week’s Daily Dialogue theme is saying “I love you” without saying “I love you”. Casablanca suggested by James