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As Patrick Thornhart, Thorsten Kaye performed many memorable scenes. Dialogue from several of these scenes is provided below in text, as well as in a self-extracting zip file (size: 5,069K). To learn more about this file type, read About Sound Files. Please note: All files on this page are exclusive to this web site and are provided for personal use only. Do not upload to/disseminate from any other website.

(Right: As Patrick Thorhart)

Thorsten Kaye as Patrick Thornhart
  • kildare.wav:  There's a piece of land in the green hills of County Kildare, with a stream as blue as the sky, and the nights are so clear and so crisp you can almost touch them - touch the stars - with your fingertips. I want to build our home there, with roses tangled thick over the red front door, and a great big fireplace made with the stones cleared from our land - a home made from the very earth it stands on. And we'll be warm there in winter. And by the glow of the peat fire, I see you standing there, and you're holding our first child. She looks like you, God, she looks just like you! But she'll grow up loved like no other. She'll not know the fear and loneliness you felt. She'll be free, and fearless, and loved. As you are loved, Margaret: forever."
  • whenthe.wav:  "When the priest says, Margaret do you take this man to be your husband? And the time has come to answer, the Margaret I know, the woman I love, and I do with all my heart, that woman won't be able to utter those words, not to any living man but me.
  • camebak.wav:  You came back here to be here with me, to make love with me. You came back here because you know there is something so strong and so true about what we are together you couldn't leave without finding out what that was.
  • withme.wav:  Margaret Saybrook is a coward and a liar. And if she only had the courage of her convictions, she would be with this poor poet be and not that farm boy barkeep she never should have married.
  • stay.wav:  So if you want me to stay away, to go away, I will do that. I'll do as you ask, Angel, and I will cut you out of my heart. And there will be no more contact, no more feeling, there'll be nothing where you used to be. Please, search your heart, Margaret, is that really what you want?
  • wedding.wav:

  • Judge: Margaret and Patrick, by coming here today in the presence of your friends, you are performing an act of faith with each other. Whatever obstacles you may encounter, nothing will turn you away from the joyful duty of loving each other.   (In the background Patrick recites "Brown Penny.")
I whispered, "I am too young,"
And then, "I am old enough,"
Wherefore I threw a penny
To find out if I might Love,
"Go and Love, go and love, young man,
If the lady be young and fair."
Ah penny, brown penny, brown penny,
I am looped in the loops of her hair.
    Judge: By the love you are pledging here today, you will find the entire world in the light of each other's faces. Patrick, do you take Margaret to be your wife this day and for all your days to come?
    Patrick: I do. Margaret, when I met you for the first time under a full moon on Inishcrag, I thought it was by chance, but I was wrong. It wasn't chance at all, it was my destiny to find you and love you with all my heart for the rest of my days.
    Judge: Margaret, do you take Patrick this day for your husband and for all your days to come?
    Margaret: I do. From the moment I met you, the first night you kissed me with the full moon shining on Inishcrag, we were meant to be together. Now and for the rest of our lives. I love you.
    Judge: May I have the rings, please?
    Patrick (placing the ring on Margaret's finger, reciting in background):

    Love is the crooked thing
    There is nobody wise enough
    To find out all that is in it,
    For he would be thinking of love
    Till the stars had run away
    And the shadows eaten the moon.
    Ah, penny, brown penny, brown penny,
    One cannot begin it too soon.

    Judge: And so by the power vested in me by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, I now pronounce you husband and wife.
    (Patrick and Marty kiss.)

  • patdies.wav:

  • Marty: Hold on, hold on! An ambulance is on the way, ok? Just hold on, stay with me!
    Todd: The last thing I want is you dying to save my life, you hear me? It's not worth it, right?
    Patrick: You're not worth it. Your little daughter is.
    Todd: Just - don't die.
    Patrick: Some small pleasure, eh?
    Todd: What's that supposed to mean?
    Patrick: We're finally even. I've repaid you for savin' my life on Inishcrag.
    Marty: No! Patrick,don't, don't, don't even think about dying!
    Patrick: And in the end, you'll pay for what you've done. You'll live your whole life knowin' that I saved your miserable life - and the life of your beautiful daughter. That's the beginning of your punishment. Margaret?
    Marty: Yes? Yes?
    Patrick: I love you. You're the one true thing I've ever known. Tell our son - tell him that I wasn't a wise man, no, not a brave man either. But I was wise enough to know that the love you gave me was a blessing, and brave enough to give you all my love in return.
    Marty: Patrick, please don't die! (weeping) Please don't leave me!
    Patrick: Shhhh. It's all right. It only means that from now on, and for all eternity, I'll be looped... in the loops...
    Marty: Patrick! Patrick! (screams)
  • passion.wav:  Because I am trying very hard to show you that I am not complicated, I am not mysterious, Margaret! I want the same things you do: a home, children, love that lasts a lifetime. Peace - peace, God, on the bible I want peace. But I also want more than that. I want the passion that I know is in you.
  • mypath.wav:  See, now you've lost me. If you're trying to keep me from gettin' hurt, why would you give yourself in marriage to another man? Don't you think that would hurt me more than anything? You chose the road you're walkin'. Stick to it, and stay the bloody hell out of my path!



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