Abel Quotes in Let It Bleed (2016)

Abel: They have been following me.

The Bartender: You threw the wrong guy off the roof

Abel: Tell me where the Devil is.

Priest: [On board a boat: Abel has escaped from the rebels] Are you from Caracas?

Abel: Why do you ask?

Priest: I thought you might have seen something of the revolution. Yesterday we heard that the rebels were sacking the town and assassinating many government officials.

Abel: [Jumps to his feet] "Assassinating" doesn't seem like quite the right word. It's too dignified... They shoot them in their beds, and then they burn their houses down.

Priest: We saw the glow in the sky. It seemed as if the whole horizon had caught fire. If you're running away, if you're looking for refuge...

Abel: No, I'm not running away, Father. Yesterday I was, but today I'm not. Today I know *exactly* where I'm going and what I have to do and then I'll be back. They'll see me again.

Abel: [as they come upon a rare, solitary flower in the forest] What is it?

Rima: It's called the Hata flower. It blooms for the space of a moon and then disappears. Yet it never dies. That very moment it blooms again at another place, in another part of the forest.

Rima: If you look in this place tomorrow and it is gone, you must not be sad, because you know it still exists, not very far away.

Abel: [looking a little skeptical] That's a beautiful legend.

Rima: A legend?

Abel: A legend is a story that is handed down from generation to generation, until people come to believe it.

Rima: You do not believe it? You do not believe anything, do you?

Abel: I believe in what I have to do.

[kisses her on the forehead and walks away]

Abel: [Strumming a guitar, singing a song for Rima] They say that love is a fragile thing, a linnet's wing, a magic ring made of gold...

Abel: They say that love is a bird in flight, a gleam of light, a star too bright to behold...

Abel: Tell me, tell me, tell me, Oh child of the moon. Is it as they say? Must love slip away too soon?

Abel: Tell me, Rima, where are the meadows of June? Speaking with her eyes, softly she replies,

Abel: I know a place where green mansions are, as near or far as any star up above.

Abel: And in this land of eternal spring, where hummingbirds can learn to sing, green grow the mansions of love.

Nuflo: When I was a young man I fell in with bad companions. By the time I was 40 I had sunk to ranging the countryside with a gang of ruffians. Oh, I flattered myself I was the least offensive of the lot. I never killed anyone, never stole - except to live.

Abel: Did you steal the gold from Riolama?

Nuflo: It was to be simple theft and flight. It was a massacre. They killed... they killed, and pillaged, and raped...

Royce: What are you, are you like Satan worshipers?

Abel: Hey hey, zip zip zip. You are not worthy to utter his name! But yes, we do bask in the light of the dark lord.

Abel: Let's begin. Todd Crenshaw, are you willing to renounce all loyalty to God and Jesus Christ?

Todd: Yeah man!

Abel: Do you swear allegiance to the prince of darkness?

Todd: I do.

Treena: It's 'I swear' Todd! Not I do!

Seamus: You're not getting married.

Treena: Jesus Christ!

Abel: You know what, watch your mouth little missy!

Treena: [screaming] I know! I know! Okay!

Abel: [yelling back] I'll wash your mouth out with soap!

Abel: One little Satanic ritual. Is that too much to ask?

[as a bunch of midgets dressed as medieval knights attack his car]

Abel: Grow up!

Abel: Be gone. Walk with Satan. Don't step on the pentagram!

Gulley Jimson: Anyone at home? Mrs. Morton Graines Waring? She's gone to Java.

Abel: That's all right, I'll work down there. Come. I want to get started.

Abel: I love music. I just wish I didn't need it to pay the bills.

Evan: Yeah, but if you didn't write music what would you do? Right?

Abel: I would buy a cliff.

Evan: Hu?

Abel: I would buy a cliff where people could come and throw shit off. You know, like fax machines and computers or whatever. Things that piss them off cause they didn't work right. Like an outlet for machine rage. And the whole thing would be video taped in slow-motion so they could watch their heap of shit break into a million pieces back at home. Plus, for an extra couple bucks I would attach an explosive so it would blow up on impact. Just like they do in the movies. A big fire ball. That would be cool.

Abel: Sometimes while I'm jacking off, my mind will wander, and I'll start thinking of totally random stuff, like whether I'm out of peanut butter. So later, when I'm at the store, while I'm standing in the peanut butter aisle, I'll pop a boner. I'll be standing there at the store sporting wood because I'm staring at fucking peanut butter. So then, of course, I have to go home and masturbate.

Abel: So now they want me to start over and write some hack Mozart crap so the customers can smarten up and answer their own tech support questions while they're on hold.

Abel: I cheated on my wife with her therapist. I'm not smart.

Abel: Get her some flowers and buy her a puppy. Chicks love puppies, man. I'm telling you. They're like heroine with fur.

Evan: That's your stress therapy, scaring babies?

Abel: Well I also do breathing exercises.

Abel: [in The Ripper's voice] Abel's not here, anymore.

Abel: [as The Ripper, points a gun at a paramedic] This is for you, you cunt!

Paterson: [Patterson shoots Abel] That's for shut the fuck up.