Black Rainbow (1989)

Rosanna Arquette: Martha Travis

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Quotes 

• Gary Wallace : [in passionate clinch]  Is this your idea of a deep and lasting relationship?

  Martha Travis : That's right. This way men lie with me, not to me.

• Walter Travis : Your mother saw *nothing!* You don't still believe that cock and bull story, do you? You were with me in St. Louis, remember? Hundreds of miles away. You *couldn't* have appeared to her.

  [leans over Martha] 

  Walter Travis : You know your mother's problem? Religion!

  [Martha chuckles] 

  Walter Travis : Hmm.

  [nods] 

  Walter Travis : Too much *religion.* She never did see you like she said. It was all in her *dreams.*

  [Martha shakes her head] 

  Walter Travis : Now, you must apologize to that poor woman. I have her waiting outside.

  Martha Travis : [tearfully]  I'm not apologizing!

  Walter Travis : You will!

  Martha Travis : No! I *can't*! I saw it! I saw it, all of it!

  [sobs] 

  Walter Travis : You heard what the woman said. Her husband *isn't* dead.

  Martha Travis : [sobs]  She's wrong...

  Walter Travis : You heard what she said. He's at home watching TV. In some households, that's considered being *alive.* Now, now,

  [strokes her arm] 

  Walter Travis : yes, you must apologize, sweetheart. You frightened the *life* out of her.

  Martha Travis : What about me, Daddy?

  Walter Travis : Why should you be frightened? You've been doing this since you were a kid.

  Martha Travis : [yells out:]  It was different this time. You have to believe me!

• Gary Wallace : Try to describe what you see, Martha.

  Martha Travis : Stay away from me! Only vultures like the dead!

• Martha Travis : There you are, wanting, waiting for me to provide you with something to believe in. You'd hate me if I told you that when we die, we'd return to nothing. To the exact state we were in before we were born. You'd hate me, wouldn't you?

  [audience murmurs that's exactly how it is] 

  Martha Travis : But if you knew for certain that there is *nothing* after death, that you only had one shot, someone said to me this morning,

  [shrugs] 

  Martha Travis : maybe if we didn't indulge in the arrogance of thinking we'd go on forever,

  [shakes her head] 

  Martha Travis : we'd be better people while we are alive.

  [finds some approval with some members of the audience] 

  Martha Travis : Think of that.