“I fell in love when I was 17. With God. A foolish girl with romantic notions about the life of a religious. But my love was passionate. Over the years, my feelings have changed. He’s disappointed me. Ignored me. We’ve settled into a relationship of peaceful indifference – the old husband and wife who sit side by side on the sofa but rarely speak. He knows I will never leave him. This is my duty. But when love and duty are one … then grace is within you.” 

- Diana Rigg as the Mother Superior in The Painted Veil (2006), adapted from Somerset Maugham’s novel of the same name.