How we cite our quotes: All quotations are from The Sound of Music.
Quote #4
MARIA: To have asked for his love would have been wrong. I couldn't stay, I just couldn't.
Maria feels like loving the captain was wrong, since she had pledged herself to God and her job was just to take care of the children. She's still a postulant nun, and she thinks she's committed a huge sin by abandoning her mission.
Quote #5
REVEREND MOTHER: Maria, the love of a man and a woman is holy, too. You have a great capacity to love. What you must find out is how God wants you to spend your love.
The Reverend Mother has an expansive view of love—love is love is love. She recognizes a loving heart when she sees one and knows that Maria needs to find the right place to express all that love.
Quote #6
CAPTAIN VON TRAPP: Well, you can't marry someone when you're in love with someone else, can you?
In the film's most romantic scene, Maria and the captain finally admit their feelings to each other. Maria's totally flustered at first, but in the song "Something Good," she says that this must be her good karma for having done something good in her life. She's amazed that he loves her.
This song wasn't in the original Broadway production. Rodgers wrote the music and lyrics for it since Hammerstein had died. In our humble opinion, you can tell. Sample lyric: "Nothing comes from nothing. Nothing ever could." Huh? Shmoop is a sucker for the song it replaced: "An Ordinary Couple."