Bella Quotes in Defiance (2008)

Bella: Women need guns, too.

Zus Bielski: What for?

Bella: For... protection.

Zus Bielski: Women have men for protection.

Bella: [to Ricky] What you wanna do, you hungry? That's a silly question, isn't it? Look at you.

Bella: [to Ricky] Come on, have some breakfast, then you can run away.

Chelsea: And, therefore, Lucy will always be a virgin.

Lucy: What? As opposed to a brainless slapper, you mean. Seriously, she'd snog a melon if you drew a mouth on it.

Bella: That's not fair! It was a grapefruit, actually, and it was years ago.

Chelsea: Bella! That was a secret.

Bella: [the Posh Totties, Bella and Saffy are showing new girl Roxy to her bed; and she sees a group of girls dancing] Oh, don't mind them. That's just the Flammables.

[fire appears on the screen with the "Flammables: St Trinians group logo]

Roxy: [confused] Why are they called "Flammables"?

Saffy: Have you *seen* all that polyester? Last year, one of them took up smoking and *half* the school burnt down!

[Saffy and Bella giggle to themselves]

Roxy: Oh.

Roxy: [carrying her bag to the beds] Where do I sling my stuff?

Saffy: Well, we can make up some room in our area, I suppose.

Chelsea: [excited] Yeah, you can so totally hang out with us!

[coolly]

Chelsea: I mean, you know, if you wanted. Whatever.

Zoe: Does she look like she'd want to hang out with a bunch of shallow, facile, peroxide-blonde turbo skanks?

[the Emos' St Trinians logo appears on the screen; with creepy music]

Bella: You think she'd rather hang out with *you* and the sulky, sun-dodging Emos?

[Chelsea and Saffy laugh, and the Posh Totties' St Trinians logo dings on the screen]

Lucy: [the girls are in the headmasters' office in the boys' school; and they spot a gold ring hanging with the headmasters' portrait] Look what he's wearing!

Chelsea: Ah, so now, *you're* the Style Queen, are you?

Saffy: Yeah, we're looking for a ring, not fashion tips.

Lucy: But he's *wearing* a ring! Well, an earring, anyway.

Chelsea, Saffy, Bella: [in unison] Yeah. In a painting.

[the Posh Totties put their fingers in and sizzle their fingers together]

Bella: Which way are you going?

Max: Down Kensington Church Street, then Knightsbridge, then Hyde Park Corner.

Bella: No, crazy, crazy. Go along Bayswater.

Honey: That's right. Then Park Lane.

Bernie: No, straight down to the Cromwell Road, then left.

Max: [they continue arguing about the best routes to the Ritz, Max finally has enough and screeches to a halt] Stop right there! I will decide the route. All right?

William: Sorry Max.

Honey: Sorry Max.

Max: James Bond never has to put up with this sort of shit.

Bella: The more I think about things, the more I see no rhyme or reason in life. no one knows why some things work out and some things don't. Why some of us are lucky and some of us get...

Bella: Do you want to stay?

William: Why not? All that awaits me at home is a masturbating Welshman.

William: Apart from the American, I've only loved two girls, both absolute disasters. The first one marries me and then leaves me faster than you can say Indiana Jones, and the second one, who seriously ought to have known better, casually marries my best friend.

Bella: She still loves you though.

William: Yeah, in a depressingly asexual way.

Bella: I never fancied you much actually.

Kate: What would you do if you were in my shoes?

Bella: Get new shoes.

Bella: I still can't believe that worked.

Kate: What? You guaranteed me it would.

Bella: Yeah, well, I'm on medication. Strong medication.

Bella: How do I look?

Jack: [to himself] Like trouble.

[out loud]

Jack: You look fine.

Bella: Percy's dribbling...

Norman: Well at least he tried.

Bella: Better to have tried and failed than not to have tried at all, I suppose.

Norman: Actually...

Bella: Yes Norman?

Norman: Merely to achieve erection isn't that important, as it happens.

Bella: Says who?

Norman: My analyst.

Bella: Well he would though, wouldn't he?

[Bella turns to Norman and laughs sarcastically]

Bitter One: Have you ever been penetrated from behind?

Small One: [Notices Bella get something from her bag] She's got an alarm.

Bitter One: No one ever comes. No one will even hear.

Bella: I know!

Bitter One: Bend over the hood!

The Quiet One: Chop chop!

Small One: Three city slickers, inside your knickers...

Bitter One: Get on with it...

[Bella shoots Small One in the abdomen]

Jason Stevens: [laughing down at his dinner] I'm afraid to ask.

Bella: Oh, you will love it. It's so rare we catch one.

Nina: Do you know who I am?

Bella: You're my momma.

Nina: I brought this for you.

[gives her a teddy bear]

Nina: That was the last gift my father gave to me.

Bella: Thank you.

Nina: You're welcome.

[gives Nina the shell Jose had given her]

Nina: Thank you.

Bella: Welcome.

Mrs. Wickens the Housekeeper: Now where's she going for her honeymoon like she says; Paris, Rome... even if its only the Isle of Wight for God's sake put her out of her misery!

Uncle Bertie: It may well be the Isle of Wight dear mother-in-law.

Bella: The Isle of Wight? God strewth!

Uncle Bertie: Steady dearest. The truth is financially I am hopelessly embarassed, hopelessly, I haven't said so as I had no wish to spoil our wedding day.

Mrs. Wickens the Housekeeper: Well you're having a darn good try Albert!

Bella: People watch me all the time, I'm used to it.

Bella: Oh please, like this cabin in the woods shit really happens.

Bella: I'm his first love, first kiss, first everything...

Joy: I'm begging you... You already have everything... I only have him!

Bella: That's where you're wrong. You had the only thing I ever wanted in life.