Oh, I don’t believe in fate, or destiny, or any of those things, because I know it wasn’t destined for my father to die in prison. Well, I guess it was something like fate to make me go out to Marin County to paint. Or maybe it was simply because I was thinking of you. I – I don’t know.

Lauren Bacall as Irene Jansen in Dark Passage (dir. Delmer Daves, 1947)