Nadja Quotes in I Love You to Death (1990)
Nadja Quotes:
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Rosalie Boca: They look like drug addicts.
Devo Nod: Well, they are drug addicts.
Rosalie Boca: Oh my God! You hired drug addicts?
Devo Nod: Who'd you expect me to hire? The Red Cross?
Nadja: They seem like very polite boys.
Rosalie Boca: I don't like having drug addicts in my house!
Nadja: Oh no, Rosalie. Don't think of them as drug addicts. Think of them as killers.
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Lt. Larry Schooner: Jesus!
Devo Nod: What?
Lt. Larry Schooner: What the hell's going on here?
Rosalie Boca: What's wrong?
Sgt. Carlos Wiley: What is it?
Lt. Larry Schooner: He's been shot in the head!
Nadja: Ah!
Rosalie Boca: Oh!
Devo Nod: Really.
Joey Boca: What.
Nadja: No wonder he has headache!
Lt. Larry Schooner: Headache? he's got a bullet in him! Carlos, get an ambulance over here right away.
[see's Devo sneaking away]
Lt. Larry Schooner: Devo!
Devo Nod: ...I was gonna get a band-aid... for Joey...
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Harlan James: This is only two hun'erd. We was promised five.
Devo Nod: For killing him five, for wounding him two.
Harlan James: You wanted me to shoot him so I shot him.
Nadja: You woke him up! What good is that?
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[Discussing hiring a hit man to kill Joey]
Devo Nod: How much can we pay?
Rosalie Boca: As much as we have to.
[Rosalie exits]
Nadja: Yeah, you know, not too much. Try for discount.
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Nadja: Last week on TV, I heard about a woman who stabbed her husband twenty-seven times. And you know why? Because he refused to put the top back on the mustard jar. Twenty-seven times! Can you imagine?
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[to Joey]
Nadja: You know, I like you once. Maybe someday I like you again.
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Rosalie Boca: We didn't do it. I swear to God we didn't. We found him outside, on the lawn...
Devo Nod: ...Right outside...
Rosalie Boca: ...He was lying there, someone had shot him, and thrown him on the lawn...
Nadja: Yeah, it was a mess...
Rosalie Boca: ...It was terrible. So we brought him inside and we... we put him in bed... and... yep... It must have been the Mafia.
Lt. Larry Schooner: Mafia?
Devo Nod: The Mafia.
Nadja: Yeah. Joey was Italian.
Rosalie Boca: He *is* Italian.
Devo Nod: He *is* Italian.
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Nadja: I am her mother. I do what I want.
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Rosalie Boca: I don't know. Maybe I didn't give him enough.
Nadja: But he ate three whole bowls! What an ox!
Rosalie Boca: Joey is not a normal man. You know how he is. He works ten... maybe 12, or 14 hours a day, seven days a week... and out with a different girl... every night.
Nadja: Rosalie...
Rosalie Boca: That's just it. He eats anything he wants. He never seems to gain any weight. He's not human! He's like an animal. Like we're dealing with a machine!
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Nadja: It's hard to read a medical book without feeling disgust for the whole human race. Our bodies are so complicated and ugly.
Cassandra: Compared to what?
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Nadja: As you get older, you begin to realise that family is all that really matters.
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Nadja: I think I'm in love.
Renfield: Why do you say that?
Nadja: I feel terrible.
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Nadja: My father was a night bird. I am the same. I find comfort in shadows. I'm no good in the day. We have an allergy to sunlight. My whole family.
-- Nadja
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