Ingrid & Claire

Astrid: My mother was the most beautiful woman I had ever seen. She was also the most dangerous.

Astrid: Looks don't interest me.
Paul: That's easy for you to say, you've never been ugly.

Ingrid: I made you. I'm in your blood. You don't go anywhere until I let you go
Astrid: Then let me go

Paul: I get this feeling like... you're not interested in guys.
Astrid: You're right, I'm not.

Claire Richards: What was the best day of your life?
Astrid: Today.

Ingrid: Don't attach yourself to anyone who shows you the least bit of attention because you're lonely. Loneliness is the human condition. No one...

Where does a mother end and a daughter begin?

White Oleander is a 2002 drama film directed by Peter Kosminsky. It was adapted to screenplay by Mary Agnes Donoghue from Janet Fitch's novel of the same name. The cast includes Michelle Pfeiffer, Renée Zellweger, Robin Wright Penn, and Alison Lohman.


Ingrid Magnussen is a free-spirited mother to 15 year-old Astrid. Ingrid falls in love with a man but ends up with a broken heart. In a crime of passion, she kills the man with the deadly poison of the white oleander. She is sentenced to life in prison - and her daughter is sent from foster home to...