Nora. I am not speaking abou...

Nora.
I am not speaking about business matters.
I say that we have never sat down in earnest together to try and get at the bottom of anything. - P105

Nora.
It is perfectly true, Torvald.
When I was at home with papa, he told me his opinion about everything, and so I had the same opinions;
and if I differed from him I concealed the fact, because he would not have liked it.
He called me his doll-child, and he played with me just as I used to play with my dolls.
And when I came to live with you-- - P106

When I look back on it, it seems to me as if I had been living here like a poor woman--just from hand to mouth.
I have existed merely to perform tricks for you, Torvald.
But you would have it so.
You and papa have committed a great sin against me.
It is your fault that I have made nothing of my life. - P106

Nora.
No, only merry.
And you have always been so kind to me.
But our home has been nothing but a playroom.
I have been your doll-wife, just as at home I was papa‘s doll-child; and here the children have been my dolls.
I thought it great fun when you played with me, just as they thought it great fun when I played with them.
That is what our marriage has been, Torvald. - P107

Nora.
No, I don‘t. But now I am going to try.
I am going to see if I can make out who is right, the world or I. - P110

NORA: That our life together would be a real wedlock. Goodbye. [She goes out through the hall.]
HELMER: [Sinks down on a chair at the door and buries his face in his hands.]
Nora! Nora! [Looks round, and rises.] Empty. She is gone. [A hope flashes across his mind.]
The most wonderful thing of all—?
[The sound of a door shutting is heard from below.] - P110

Helmer [walking up and down]...

Helmer
[walking up and down]. He had so grown into our lives. I can‘t think of him as having gone out of them. He, with his sufferings and his loneliness, was like a cloudy background to our sunlit happiness. Well, perhaps it is best so. For him, anyway.
[Standing still.] And perhaps for us too, Nora. We two are thrown quite upon each other now. [Puts his arms round her.] My darling wife, I don‘t feel as if I could hold you tight enough. Do you know, Nora, I have often wished that you might be threatened by some great danger, so that I might risk my life‘s blood, and everything, for your sake. - P98

Helmer.
Now you have destroyed all my happiness.
You have ruined all my future.
It is horrible to think of!
I am in the power of an unscrupulous man; he can do what he likes with me, ask anything he likes of me, give me any orders he pleases--I dare not refuse.
And I must sink to such miserable depths because of a thoughtless woman! - P100

‘From this moment happiness is not the question; all that concerns us is to save the remains, the fragments, the appearance--’(Helmer, 101p) - P101

Helmer.
You have loved me as a wife ought to love her husband.
Only you had not sufficient knowledge to judge of the means you used.
But do you suppose you are any the less dear to me, because you don‘t understand how to act on your own responsibility?
No, no; only lean on me; I will advise you and direct you.
I should not be a man if this womanly helplessness did not just give you a double attractiveness in my eyes.
You must not think anymore about the hard things I said in my first moment of consternation, when I thought everything was going to overwhelm me.
I have forgiven you, Nora; I swear to you I have forgiven you. - P103

Krogstad. Under the ice, per...

Krogstad.
Under the ice, perhaps? Down into the cold, coal-black water? And then, in the spring, to float up to the surface, all horrible and unrecognisable, with your hair fallen out-- - P73

Krogstad
[more gently]. When I lost you, it was as if all the solid ground went from under my feet. Look at me now--I am a shipwrecked man clinging to a bit of wreckage. - P84

Mrs Linde.
I have learned to act prudently. Life, and hard, bitter necessity have taught me that. - P84

Mrs Linde.
In my first moment of fright, it was. But twenty-four hours have elapsed since then, and in that time I have witnessed incredible things in this house. Helmer must know all about it. This unhappy secret must be disclosed; they must have a complete understanding between them, which is impossible with all this concealment and falsehood going on. - P87

Helmer. Of course!--if only ...

Helmer.
Of course!--if only this obstinate little person can get her way! Do you suppose I am going to make myself ridiculous before my whole staff, to let people think that I am a man to be swayed by all sorts of outside influence? I should very soon feel the consequences of it, I can tell you! And besides, there is one thing that makes it quite impossible for me to have Krogstad in the Bank as long as I am manager. - P58

Helmer.
My dear Nora, I can forgive the anxiety you are in, although really it is an insult to me. It is, indeed. Isn‘t it an insult to think that I should be afraid of a starving quill-driver‘s vengeance? But I forgive you nevertheless, because it is such eloquent witness to your great love for me. [Takes her in his arms.] And that is as it should be, my own darling Nora. Come what will, you may be sure I shall have both courage and strength if they be needed. You will see I am man enough to take everything upon myself. - P60

Rank.
Who else? It is no use lying to one‘s self. I am the most wretched of all my patients, Mrs Helmer. Lately I have been taking stock of my internal economy. Bankrupt! Probably within a month I shall lie rotting in the churchyard. - P61

Helmer‘s refined nature gives him an unconquerable disgust at everything that is ugly; I won‘t have him in my sick-room.(Dr. Rank, 62p) - P62

Rank.
Oh, it‘s a mere laughing matter, the whole thing. My poor innocent spine has to suffer for my father‘s youthful amusements. - P62

Rank.
To have loved you as much as anyone else does? Was that horrid? - P66

Rank.
It is just that, that put me on the wrong track. You are a riddle to me. I have often thought that you would almost as soon be in my company as in Helmer‘s. - P68

Nora.
Yes--you see there are some people one loves best, and others whom one would almost always rather have as companions. - P68

Nora
[jumping up and going to him].
Oh, dear, nice Doctor Rank, I never meant that at all. But surely you can understand that being with Torvald is a little like being with papa-- - P68

Nora. I must make an end of ...

Nora.
I must make an end of it with the other one, and that will be behind his back too. I must make an end of it with him. - P54