Sweet Magnolias is an American romantic drama television series streaming exclusively on Netflix. The series was created by Meredith Averill and stars Kirsten Dunst, Isabella Rossellini, Elisabeth Moss and Haley Joel Osment.
“Sweet Magnolias” is a compelling story about nine sisters who have been brought up in the Big House with its many secrets. They are taken care of as children by their mother Annabelle, now on death row for a crime she didn’t commit.
Sweet Magnolia Quotes
“Are you and Auntee going to fight about religion again?” – Jem
“Jem, you’re supposed to be asleep.” – Scout
“I couldn’t sleep until I said my prayers.” – Jem
“Atticus, I can’t understand it. What made him so…mean?” – Scout
“I don’t think he was ever mean when he was little.
“We got enough storm clouds out there. Don’t need you being one too.” – Maddie Townsend
“My week had a week.” – Dana Sue Sullivan
“You think you’ve got a monopoly on grief?” – Reverend Sackett
“I think that’s why God loves us.” – William Hale
“Big house. Big house.” – Annabelle Sullivan
“I’m sorry, Jem. It was just so wrong.” – Atticus Finch
“It’s hard enough not to hate him, when you know he did it.” – Scout
“I can’t help but wonder if everybody thinks that way sometimes. You can hate somebody and love them at the same time. It’s a terrible feeling.” – Scout
“I’m sorry, but the church, they’re the ones who make people go to hell. Not God.” – Sonny
“We will raise our children in this house because it is a good house.” – Annabelle
“The truth is right in front of us. We just have to see it. People don’t go to hell because they’re bad. They go there because they can’t see the good, the right, the just in front of them.” – Scout
“Well, you’re going to find out that everything you’ve been told is a lie.” – William
“You are not going to go to hell. That is where all the sinners go. Oh, I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to say that.” – Scout
“I think you should do whatever you want to do.” – Jem
“Well, Jem Finch, if that’s what you want to do then that’s what I’ll try to be. A good person.” – Scout
“He expects me to work the crowd and make people laugh until they forget their troubles. He expects me to forget my troubles. That’s not my job.” – Annabelle Sullivan
“Woman is that you?” – Senator Robert Taylor
“It wasn’t her choice, it was mine. I had a dream and I’d like to have it come true.” – Annabelle Sullivan
“There’s something wrong with this man.” – Scout Carter
Ella Walker is a beautiful, independent woman. She lives alone in New York City with her two children and tends to run the business by herself. She’s a very successful woman who proved herself to be good at her job. She has a good relationship with her family and friends, but she feels very lonely at times. Her life is taken over by ill-fated events that keep changing in the course of her life. Things happen to her that she did not choose and do not want for herself.
“Ella Walker. I’ve always had a sneaking admiration for you. A woman who stands on her own two feet.” – Roger Flowers
“I never set out to be a woman, Mr. Flowers. I never wanted to be a wife or mother. I was simply the right man at the right time.” – Ella Walker
“It’s been years since I’ve had a woman’s body in my wr. But every day, it grows stronger and more beautiful. I wake up every morning and it takes my breath away.” – Roger Flowers
“Why would anyone want to do that?” – Ella Walker
“Why do you think? Why do you think she and I have been together for the last six years?” – Roger Flowers
“I am so sorry.” – Calvin Walker
Netflix Sweetie Quotes
“Ah, um, I just came by to say that I’m leaving.” – Ella Walker
“No. No, you’re not. You’re here to tell me that you’ve changed your mind, that you want to marry me after all.” – Roger Flowers
“I want you, Roger. And I want this house.” – Ella Walker
“You don’t mean that. You didn’t say it back on the boat when I asked you if you loved me and your answer was no.” – Ella Walker
“I don’t know. Maybe I got the wrong idea about what love is supposed to be like. But I know what I want. And I want you and this house.” – Ella Walker
“I can’t turn around and leave the way things are between us. Knowing that we’re so close to being together, but it’s not gonna happen for both of us.” – Ella Walker
“I’m not a man who lives in denial, but you don’t love me. You’re just too scared to admit it.” – Roger Flowers
“I’m not scared, Roger. I’ve loved you for years now. I just didn’t want to admit it.” – Ella Walker
“I can’t wait any longer.” – Ella Walker
“You’ve been awfully quiet. What went on in there?” – Roger Flowers
“I tried to explain that I’m not what you think I am. That I never pretended to be anything else.” – Ella Walker
“Ella, don’t do this. Don’t make me beg you. We’re good together.” – Roger Flowers
“I don’t want you to beg. I want you to leave. I want the ground between us to just fall away.” – Ella Walker
“You always did like long walks on the beach, didn’t you?” – Ella Walker
“You seem fine, Roger. It must be different for you.” – Ella Walker
“She is a woman who thinks she needs no man. That’s what she said, that she was not a woman. And I believed her. I tried… yes, I tried to see past her face, to her heart. And what I saw there was a woman who is not a woman.” – Roger Flowers
“I wanted to believe that you were the kind of man who would leave his wife and children for me. But it’s too late for me now.” – Ella Walker
“You’re gonna have to get used to being alone.” – Ella Walker
“I think he’s been dead four years now. I think it’s time we gave him some peace.” – Roger Flowers
“Find a man that cares about you and wants to give you what you’ve always wanted.” – Ella Walker
“I don’t know how you did it, Ella. But you made me feel like I was the happiest man in the world.” – Roger Flowers
“When I first laid eyes on her, I thought maybe I could love her. Maybe. And for a long time, I did believe that she’d changed. But the truth is, she’s not a woman. She never was.” – Roger Flowers
“She really does love you. She really does want to fight for us.” – Calvin Walker
“I never wanted this for her. I wanted her to have a good man and a nice house and children who’d grow up in the light of Christ.” – Roger Flowers
“There’s too much pain in this world already without adding any more of your own.” – Roger Flowers
“I know. It’s always been you, Roger. Always. All these years I’ve been trying to get rid of ’em, and all it ever took was one look at you.” – Ella Walker
“You are a good man.” – Ella Walker
“For six years, I just pretended that I might be the kind of man who could leave my wife and children for you. It was a lie. I never really believed it.” – Roger Flowers
“I never wanted to be a wife or mother.” – Ella Walker
“You want for nothing, and you’re bringing the light of Christ into this world. You are a good woman, Mrs. Walker.” – Calvin Walker
“All the world is obsessed with darkness. All the power feeds itself in the light of men’s desires, and all evil comes from that. I have felt it my whole life. And yet, she is a good woman.” – Roger Flowers
“She’s the one who drove me crazy. She took my faith away from me.” – Roger Flowers
“What about Calvin Walker, huh? You didn’t kill him for the money he had. You murdered him because of what you saw in his face that day. I know it. I believe he’s been dead four years now.” – Roger Flowers
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“I won’t let you go until I’ve had all that is mine.” – Ella Walker
“We’re all just chasing after what we want. You wanted her and got lucky. She wanted nothing but a good man, and you were the one she could have had. Maybe if you’d looked at him a little differently, she might have fallen for him instead. But it’s too late for you now. You have to live with that.” – Roger Flowers
“I never meant to fall in love with you. It just happened.” – Ella Walker
“It didn’t ‘just happen’. I watched you make it happen.” – Roger Flowers
“You’re a woman who feels nothing. And knows why she feels nothing. You don’t know what it is to live, to feel what other people feel. I’m no fool, Ella Walker. I know what you are. I know what you are!” – Roger Flowers
“Ella! Ella! Ella! Ella!” – Roger Flowers
“This is the place I’ve been searching for my whole life. The place where there is no war between people and man and the ground they live on. This is the place where God lives.” – Roger Flowers
“There’s no such thing.” – Roger Flowers
“No one can see that better than you, because there is no God for you to see. You never gave anyone the chance to see Him through you.” – Calvin Walker
“There are no words.” – Calvin Walker
“He went out of this world. And you went with him. You’re a murderer, Roger.” – Calvin Walker
“Roger is dead?” – Ella Walker