Nancy Quotes in Dante's Peak (1997)

Stan: Isn't this beautiful, nestled all nice and cozy right up against the mountain?

Nancy: Yeah, just like Pompeii.

Harry Dalton: My 9th grade science teacher always said that if you put a frog in boiling hot water, it would jump out. But put it in cold water, and heat it up gradually, it would slowly boil to death.

Nancy: What's that Harry? Your recipe for frog soup?

Harry Dalton: It's my recipe for a disaster.

Terry, USGS Crew: The doctor said I can get out of the hospital as soon as they make sure that my head's OK.

Nancy: OK, see you in 10 years man!

Nancy: Why look at the computer when you can look at the real thing?

James Bond: Now, when we authorize a coat of arms, it can include all sorts of funny things: crescent moons, portcullis, beasts, cochons, rampants, bars, bezants.

Nancy: Please, what is bezants?

James Bond: Gold balls. I brought a book on the subject with me. There's a picture of my own coat of arms, actually - which includes four of them. If you'd care to see them.

Ruby: I'd love to!

Nancy: [Frightened as she sits in front of booby-trapped computer] Whatta we gonna do?

James 'Jimmy' Dove: [Needing to get access to knee hole of desk] Got to get between your legs, Nancy.

Nancy: None of this makes any sense. We have to figure out what their reasoning is. If we can figure out their reasoning then... then we could talk to them.

Nancy: I hate it when you go to Earth.

Nancy: [in nurses uniform, upset at what she sees on her cellphone] Somebody is putting money in my account!

Black patient in wheelchair: White people problems.

Nancy: [On the phone] Tommy money's appearing in Vee's account... are we being hacked?

Tommy: [Over the phone] Normally if you were being hacked money would be going out of her account

Nancy: You guys are the dumbest smart kids I've ever met!

[last lines]

O.W. Grant: Say - you have a birthday coming up, don't you?

Nancy: How'd you know that?

O.W. Grant: Don't forget to make a wish.

[getting off the phone with her parents]

Nancy: I fucking hate them! I fucking hate them! Ass! Ow! Fucking motherfuckers! They wouldn't send us any money! They said we'd spend it on DRUGS!

Sid: We would!

[Nancy storms out of their flat in Sid's mother's clothes, then sees herself reflected in a window]

Nancy: AAGGHH! I look like fuckin' Stevie Nicks in hippie clothes!

Nancy: I'll never look like Barbie. Barbie doesn't have bruises.

Nancy: I hate my fuckin' life.

Sid: This is just a rough patch. Things'll be much better when we get to America, I promise.

Nancy: We're in America. We've been here a week. New York is in America, you fuck.

Nancy: Never trust a junkie.

[as Sid storms out]

Nancy: What about the farewell drugs?

Nancy: Boring, Sidney, Boring!

Nancy: What are ya doin here? You're in the studio, these places cost like fifty grand a minute. You could be really shining out! But what? You're just wonking off!

John: Wanking!

Nancy: What happened to you? Did you try and kiss your mother?

John: None of your business.

Brenda Winczor: John got beaten up by facists.

Nancy: Who's Dick Dent?

Brenda Winczor: He's just some wanky journalist who don't appreciate The Sex Pistols.

Nancy: [Pointing] No! Look, that's the Rollerama. Sid, I won a roller skating trophy there when I was six years old.

Granma: Nancy, don't fib.

Nancy: Fuck you, Grandma.

Nancy: I don't think that Johnny likes me.

Sid: He doesn't like anybody. He's a fool.

Nancy: You like me, don't you?

Nancy: If I asked you to kill me, would you?

Sid: I don't know. How would I do it? I couldn't live without ya.

Sid: If it weren't for me mum's kindness, we'd be on the fucking streets!

Nancy: Yeah? And if it weren't for your own stupidity, we'd be living in our own apartment in Paris, France!

Nancy: It's a real waste to smoke that shit. Don't ya have any needles?

Sid: Where's the bloody soap?

Nancy: Up your ass!

[last lines]

Nancy: [to Red Dog] You stay, boy. You stay here. You're home now.

Phil: Nancy: she works in the dress shop and makes noises like a chipmunk when she gets *real* excited.

Nancy: Hey!

Phil: It's true.

Nancy: Am I really gonna die?

Max Cartwright: Yeah.

Nancy: So, I guess I never grow up or fall in love or have kids. I had this dream that when I graduated college, I would meet a guy and we'd have a baby. A girl. And if she ever needed me, I would do anything for her - anything. I would've made a really great mom.

Max Cartwright: The best.

Nancy: I can't believe they're all dead!

Vicki Summers: They were never alive! They weren't real. Neither are you because this is just a movie!

Nancy: I should have known something was up with this place. I mean think about it. What the hell kind of summer camp has waterbeds?

Nancy: I didn't sleep with Kurt so now I guess I'll be able to save myself for George Michael after all.

Vicki Summers: I wouldn't hold your breath, honey.

Nancy: Why?

Nancy: You were right about one thing, you know?

Max Cartwright: What?

Nancy: I'm a movie star!

Max Cartwright: You shouldn't have sex.

Nancy: Why?

Max Cartwright: Because I heard that sex can kill you.

Nancy: Paula, you're just in time to start setting up for the slumber party!

Kurt: Yeah, we took a vote and you get to share my sleeping bag.

Paula: Thanks, Kurt, but I'm saving myself for someone who doesn't have a needle dick.

Kurt: Yeah, right. It's like a hammer... dick, if anything. It's a sledgehammer.

Nancy: What does that tattoo mean?

Kurt: It was given to me in juvie. I was caught stealing cherries. I'm a... I'm a cherry thief.

[Dave is on the phone with his lawyer when a female co-worker walks into the stall Dave is sitting in]

Dave Buznik: Hi Nancy.

Nancy: What are you doing in the ladies room Dave?

Dave Buznik: I heard you have cleaner seats than we do, so I wanted to see for myself.

Nancy: Not after I'm through with them.

Arlene Berquist: Why is she telling you this... Phil?

Phil Berquist: Because... because I'm her boss! And... we... we have a health plan!

Arlene Berquist: You son of a bitch - you screwed this little girl in my father's store?

Phil Berquist: No... no! No!

Nancy: It was in his car! And I'm not a little girl; I'm twenty.

Arlene Berquist: Get out of this house, you little whore.

Phil Berquist: Hey! I will not permit you to talk to her that way.

Arlene Berquist: Fine. I'll tell my father what you did!

Phil Berquist: Don't you call Mister Levine! Hey! Give me that phone...

[struggles to take the phone from her]

Arlene Berquist: You're crazy!

Phil Berquist: That's right - not having sex for *twelve years* will do that to a person!

[she breaks the phone]

Arlene Berquist: I'll call from the bedroom.

Phil Berquist: The bedroom? How the hell would you know where the bedroom is?

Arlene Berquist: I'm calling...

Phil Berquist: Go ahead, call him - I'm sure he's home. It's his night to meet with the other escaped Nazis, isn't it?

Arlene Berquist: I hate you!

Phil Berquist: I hate you more; if hate were people, I'd be China!

Mitch Robbins: [awkward pause] Let's bring out the cake!

Nancy: I've got a confession to make. I'm not really your blind date, Jack.

Jack: What? Are you even 24?

Nancy: No! Add an other 10. I was just merely trying to meet my mate in the modern world.

Jack: Congratulations on your massive pack of lies!

Nancy: Thank you!

Jack: God, you're such a cynic!

Nancy: And you're such a romantic!

Nancy: Fuck the past!

[a declaration, later used as a toast]

Nancy: And secondly, I mean, you're not holding on to her. You're holding on to a feeling, and that feeling will eventually pass. Promise.

Jack: Do you even like bowling?

Nancy: I love bowling.

Jack: Great, so you weren't faking it the whole night, then?

Nancy: Bet you've said that line before.

Nancy: No, don't be sad. God, I'm not sad... I'm a bit sad. But I'm also quite proud of myself 'cause I tried. And, you know, no, it didn't work out, but... I got a hint of what could be out there for me. You know, a fun, loving, crazy, contradictory, long, happy life with someone.

Nancy: I met a man today. For the first time in ages, I put myself out there. And I took a chance. Blah, blah, blah, the end.

Nancy: You can do this. Hi. I'm Nancy. "This year, you're gonna put yourself out there. Take chances. "Be more deviant. Engage with... "... life."Oh, my God.

Nancy: You're just - - you're an emotional jigsaw at the moment but you're gonna piece yourself back together. You know, start with the corners. Look for the blue bits.

Jack: And where do I find these "blue bits"?

[as they go for a marriage license:]

Moocher: I wonder if I have to have a job to qualify.

Nancy: I don't think so. I think it's mostly blood and relatives that they're interested in.

Moocher: Blood and relatives... well, that's great. I got both of them.

Nancy: You know what?

Moocher: No, what?

Nancy: I'm leaving home, that's what.

Moocher: What? Where are you going?

Nancy: About 5 blocks south.

Moocher: [laughs] Yeah?

Nancy: I found this little place, it's so cute I could scream.

Armand 'Flash' Carducci: Hi, girls. What's happening? My name's Flash, what's yours?

Nancy: Don't talk to him, Cheryl, he's a dork.

Armand 'Flash' Carducci: I'm not a dork, I'm Italian!

Nancy: I've never understood dog people. They're not your kids!

Nancy: It was a minor mistake!

Alan Dickinson: You accused a city official of bestiality. On the air.

Nancy: It's not my fault that he got rid of the evidence before animal control intervened.

Matt: The media, the press, they're disgusting! I mean, if only they were as honorable and conscientious as YOU are, then the world would be a better place.

Nancy: Thank you...

Matt: Mmm-hmm.

Nancy: I think. Or f-you? Thank you or f-you, I never know.

Matt: So are you like the disgruntled one, always a bridesmaid, never a bride?

Nancy: No! I mean, I was an outstanding student, obviously. You know, I was head of our yearbook committee and newspaper editor. I was Vice President of the senior class. That was great! I had to get votes for that.

Matt: So a giant dork.

Nancy: I hate you.

Nancy: She's just such an evil bitch!

Matt: You do recall that this poor woman is looking for her missing child?

Nancy: Yeah. And I feel terrible for them. And I'm gonna be all over the story and do everything I can.

Matt: Yeah, that's what I'm afraid of.

Nancy: Email wouldn't even exist if it weren't for AIDS.

Nancy: Macaroni.

Nancy: Oh, my god. Did we sleep together?

Louis: No.

Nancy: Did I sleep with anyone?

Louis: No.

Nancy: Who did you sleep with?

Louis: Nobody.

Jarrod: Bitch!

Nancy: Cock hole!

Jarrod: Bitch!

Nancy: Cock hole!

Jarrod: Don't call me cock hole, bitch!

[as Lily enters the room, her face caked in makeup]

Doug Davis: Woah!

Nancy: Wow!

Doug Davis: Stop the press! We've got a fashion model in the house! Is that the makeup you got from us?

Lily: Yep.

Doug Davis: And your skin's all right?

Lily: Yep. Why?

Nancy: Oh, we were just wondering.

[Jarrod's family and Lily are all eating dinner together. Jarrod clumsily clinks his fork on his glass to get everybody's attention]

Jarrod: [stands up] Well, I suppose I should say a few words...

Nancy: [interrupting] Why?

Jarrod: [shoots Nancy a look before continuing] Now we're all here, I'd just like to say that I'm really happy that we're all together under the same roof. It's always great to come home. And I'd also like to say that this Saturday I will be having a scheduled fight with Eric Elisi, the Samoan.

Nancy: Oh, yeah. He used to beat you up.

Mason: And me.

Jarrod: [points at Mason] Yeah, and him. He was the toughest guy at our school. He used to pick on quite a few people, actually. Anyway, you're all invited to attend, it'd be great to see you there. Thank you.

[sits]

Zane: Why are you fighting him, Uncle?

Jarrod: [stands again] Well Zane, basically, I'm gonna restore honour to the family name. To your family name.

[sits]

Zane: My family name's Davis. Eh, Dad?

Doug Davis: Yep. Dangerous Davis, back in the day.

Nancy: Yeah, I'm a Davis too.

Jarrod: [exasperated] Yeah well it doesn't matter, does it? We're family. That's what matters.

Nancy: My lawyer will call your lawyer.

Allan: I don't have a lawyer. Have him call my doctor.

Nancy: You're a dreamer. You're awkward. You're clumsy. They can see how desperate you are. You know this. You said it yourself. Oh, face it, Allan. You may be very sweet but you're not sexy.

Nancy: Don't listen to him!

Bogart: Don't listen to HER!

Allan: Fellas, we're in a supermarket.

Nancy: Have you ever been to Denmark?

Fielding Mellish: I've been, yes... to the Vatican.

Nancy: The Vatican? The Vatican is in Rome.

Fielding Mellish: Well, they were doing so well in Rome that they opened one in Denmark.

Nancy: You're immature, Fielding.

Fielding Mellish: [whining] How am I immature?

Nancy: Well, emotionally, sexually, and intellectually.

Fielding Mellish: Yeah, but what other ways?

Fielding Mellish: I love you, I love you.

Nancy: Oh, say it in French! Oh, please, say it in French!

Fielding Mellish: I don't know French.

Nancy: Oh, please... please!

Fielding Mellish: What about Hebrew?

Nancy: [disappointed] Oh.

Fielding Mellish: I love Eastern philosophy. It's... it's metaphysical, and redundant. Abortively pedantic.

Nancy: I know just what you mean!

Fielding Mellish: That's very wise, you know...? That's, I think, pithy.

Nancy: It was pithy. It had... great pith.

Fielding Mellish: Yeth. Pith.

Nancy: Can... can you, like, define the meaning of love?

Fielding Mellish: What do you... define... it's love! I love you! I... I want you in a way of cherishing your... your... your totality and your otherness, and... and in the sense of a presence, and a being, and a whole coming and a going in a room with grapefruit, and... and love of a thing of nature in a sense of not wanting or being jealous of the thing that a person possesses.

Nancy: Do you have any gum?

Fielding Mellish: I've read Kierkegaard.

Nancy: Oh, well, he's Danish.

Fielding Mellish: Yes... he would be the first to admit it.

Nancy: I have to tell you something, and I don't know how to break it. Oh, Fielding...

Fielding Mellish: Why? Is something the matter? Am I... am I... Have you seen X-rays of me?

Nancy: I want to go and work with pygmies in Africa... and I want to work with lepers in a leper colony. I don't think that you...

Fielding Mellish: I'm willing to... No, that's perfectly OK. I love leprosy! If that's what you're asking me... I'm perfectly willing to... I like leprosy, I like cholera. I like all the major skin diseases.

Fielding Mellish: You don't have hostility to the male sex, do you?

Nancy: Oh, Women's Rights do not automatically mean castration.

[Fielding reacts with great pain, doubling over]

Fielding Mellish: Oooh, don't say that word! Now I've got to walk around like this for two days!

Nancy: Oh, I know! You know, I'm the same way on that word "appendicitis". Ooh.

Fielding Mellish: Oooh, but "castration"...!

Nancy: "Castration", "appendicitis", either one!

Nancy: Would you like to volunteer for the Volunteers for San Marcos?

Nancy: May I ask... what do you do?

Fielding Mellish: I'm a products tester for a large corporation. I make sure products are safe and practical. Today I tested an exercise machine, and an electrically warm toilet seat for cold days.

Nancy: Where'd you get the pup tent?

Nancy: No thanks, I'm not hungry.

Mel: Come on, Nance, you're always hungry.

Nancy: Does talking about this stuff make you happy?

Philip Lewis Friedman: No. I find thinking about it all to be unfulfilling and exhausting. Does nothing for me.

Nancy: Well, that's how the rest of your life is gonna be. Unfulfilling and exhausting.

Nancy: [the devil, speaking through Nancy] I am far more powerful than you can ever imagine!

Father Luke Brophy: Maybe, however you are but one being. I represent the belief of far more people. Did you know that the Christian religion has over a billion followers?

Nancy: Big deal, so does the Wheel of Fortune!

Father Jebedaiah Mayii: I command you to leave this child at once!

Nancy: [Possessed] Make me, slimeball.

Father Jebedaiah Mayii: I am a priest!

Nancy: Oh, pardon me, your most reverent and holy slimeball!

Jesse Ventura: Satan, you've got them on the run. What move are you gonna use next?

Nancy: [possessed] Next, I'm gonna grab a wrestler by his neck, suck out his eye balls, and then spit 'em down his throat!

Jesse Ventura: I think she's talking to you, Mean Gene.

Nancy: You're praying to a God you've never even seen before!

Father Luke Brophy: I don't need to see him, for the bible says that God created man in his own image.

Nancy: Oh yeah? Then how do you explain Pee Wee Herman?

Nancy: [while possessed by Devil] Oh, what did I do to deserve this!

Nancy: [while possessed] Hello I'm Barbara Walters and this is twenty twenty, haha I've always wanted to do that!

Nancy: Excuse me, doctor?

TV Doctor: Oh I'm not a doctor but I do play one on TV that's why I recommend...

Nancy: [while possessed] You may think you've won, Brophy, but I know another way to reach all those people!

Father Luke Brophy: Satan wait! Where do you think you're going?

Nancy: I'm going to Disneyland!

Nancy: SILENCE! One more word out of you little sacks of shit, and there'll be no more T.V for you tonight!

[fighting with Father Mayii in bed]

Nancy: Don't take a look at this picture of your mother in bed with Manuel Noriega!

Nancy: [possessed] The last collar jockey who messed with me ended up with a dislocated shoulder.

Father Luke Brophy: You don't scare me.

Nancy: Oh, yeah? They found it in Baltimore.

Nancy: [possessed] I hate Rock 'n' Roll!

Father Luke Brophy: Satan stop! Where do you think you're going?

Nancy: I'm going to Disneyland!

Nancy: [as an ice cream cone] Lick me!

Father Luke Brophy: Freeze, pukeface!

Nancy: Ohhhhhhhhh!

Father Luke Brophy: You think you're up for a real challenge?

Nancy: A challenge? From you? Oh, don't make me laugh, my skin will crack!

Father Luke Brophy: Not me... May I!

Nancy: May I ? Oh, that old geezer quit throwing holy water years ago!

Father Luke Brophy: Not before he kicked your slimy butt.

Nancy: No way! It was rigged! The fight was fixed. I WANT A REMATCH!

Father Luke Brophy: You got it.

Arthur Coddish: [Is about to electrocute Vic] How do you like it, medium or well-done?

[Evil maniacal laughter]

Nancy: Victor!

Vic Ajax: Nancy!

[She throws him a baseball bat, and he smashes Arthur's machine with it]

Arthur Coddish: You broke my shocker!

Vic Ajax: Mister, you've done some bad things and I'm gonna deal out some swift justice!

Nancy: I'm not that kind of girl!

Renaldo the Heel: Well, with a little practice you could learn to be.

Nancy: Since when did my kids become the Jackson Five?

John-John: I ain't being Michael!

[At the giant duck cookout]

Mike: You know what we're doing? We're making history!

Nancy: And eating it, too!

Genius: [about the chemicals he's mixed] They're not compatible. This is supposed to blow up. I wonder why it doesn't?

Nancy: You and I aren't going to be very compatible either, Genius, if you don't get out of here.

Genius: I wonder what you see in her.

Mike: I don't know either. But, uh, whatever it is, I like it.

Mike: Who got the Goo?

Genius: They got it. One of them ran off with it. I was going to stop him, but...

Nancy: But what?

Genius: Reasons of pure logic. He was bigger than me.

Hortense, Maisie, Fay, Dulcie, Nancy: [singing] We'd save for him, And slave for him, We'd even misbehave for him, That certain thing called "The Boy Friend"

Mme. Dubonnet: [singing] I am so good, At spreading mirth and joy

Percy: But it's no good, With such a sulky boy

Maisie, Fay, Dulcie, Nancy: I try, To play the game the other fellows all choose

Percy: The other fellows all choose

Maisie, Fay, Dulcie, Nancy: I sigh, Because you always refuse

Mme. Dubonnet: What is a girl to do, With such a boy as you? I've got those

Percy, Mme. Dubonnet, Maisie, Fay, Dulcie, Nancy: Dreary, Weary, You-Don't-Want-To-Play-With-Me Blues

Nancy: I've never loved anyone. I don't think I can.

[first lines]

Announcer: Stay by your phone, Doctor Nancy Love will be up on KCMY talk radio with The Love Line.

Nancy: I recommend that you examine the deeper feelings you have for your wife, Tom.

Nancy: Well, with the dilemma you're in, Jane, we could discuss sexual attitudes, early childhood, but the truth is, when you make changes, you sometimes have to endure pain.

Eve: Is that what you do with your pain?

[They are discussing Nancy herself, but Mickey does not know this]

Nancy: Her? Extremely smart. She helps a great deal of people.

Mickey: Good.

Nancy: And when there's a price involved, she can help others but - not herself. She gives advice to the lovelorn every day but she's never been in love herself. Or so I've heard.

Mickey: Rough.

Nancy: Some people worship her. But can you imagine how hard that must be to live with? Knowing than anything you ever say to anyone will count heavily, be acted upon whether you're right or wrong, I mean there's a tremendous responsibility in that, don't you think? She'd have to - she'd have to live a - a life of secrecy to avoid that kind of pressure, and even then she'd have to be careful of listening to herself, you know? And she must - wonder about - her own life experiences, she must have - difficulty touching life because she gives so much of herself to others, she spends - so much of her time absorbing others.

Mickey: People really listen to that shit?

Nancy: Oh yes, they do, believe me. I've heard her show before.

Nancy: Mickey. Mickey. You can't go around asking every woman you kiss to marry you.

Mickey: Why not?

Nancy: Why not...

Mickey: I only kiss women I'd marry.

Nancy: Maybe it's not just, uh, one man, Rita, maybe it's a feeling you have for all men. Sex, like everything else, is largely a mystery, I mean, there's no such thing as normal sex, normal sex is a matter of statistics. What may be normal for the vast majority is no criterion of behavior for the exceptional person.

Pearl Antoine: But I am exceptional.

Nancy: [becoming gradually more agitated] Throughout history, individuals of the first rank would never have produced had they not been immersed in sex and spontaneous sexual behavior. I mean that uncontrollable impulse that shakes you to your very foundation, that makes your - nerves ends tickle and that makes your head spin and makes you feel like, like jelly, you may think it's wine, Rita, but it's not, it's blood. And there's nothing wrong with that feeling. We all need to get it, we all need it, there's nothing wrong with IT.

Pearl Antoine: But I know about all that.

Announcer: Nancy, stand by for a station break.

Nancy: I'm sorry, Rita, we're going for, uh, station identification.

Nancy: From Mickey, I learned that perhaps when a man enters your life through your sex, it might just be as good a way as any. isn't that marvelous? And all along I'm thinking it's the wine! And Eve, seeing how - how you admit that you don't really know him all that well, well I'm - I'm wondering - if we might share him?

Eve: Are you telling me that Mickey found out where I lived, and that he came here, and that you were home, and that you fucked him?

Nancy: [nods]

Eve: [slaps Nancy]

Nancy: He said you barely knew each other, Eve, you just said that yourself.

Nancy: Mickey I love you, I love you Mickey.

Micky O'Neill: Vice Versa Love.

Nancy: But tonight he's a thief, and a liar, and all that's bad. Ain't that enough for the old wretch, without blows?

Linda: How do you feel about forming a rape squad?

Nancy: What do we do?

Linda: We do what hundreds of women all over the country are doing. Look, there's an article about it right here!

Jimmy: Imagine... Dr. Beaumont keeping this heart pumping for over twenty years!

Nancy: Wish he could do something about making your heart pump!

Nancy: [shoot's flare gun at shark] Fuck you.

Nancy: [timing the shark's swimming] I've got you.

Nancy: [to surfer's] GET OUT OF THE WATER, SHARK!

Surfer #1, Surfer #2: It's okay, no sharks come here.

Nancy: She's not coming.

Carlos: Who?

Nancy: Uh. My friend, you know. You know, the girl we left back at the hotel? You know, she smelled like Don Julio and bad choices.

Nancy: Hello, Jack. Thanks for saving our little girl.

Ma: He needs to play with something real. I'm worried about him being on the phone.

Nancy: He's doing fine.

Ma: Well, I don't give him my phone, so I'd appreciate it if you didn't give him yours.

Nancy: Okay, I won't.

Ma: Great.

[pause]

Ma: I just want him to connect with something.

Nancy: Joy. Joy, he's really doing fine.

Ma: I don't know what's wrong with me. I'm supposed to be happy.

Nancy: You just need to rest, okay?

Ma: No, I don't. I don't need to rest!

Nancy: That's... That's what the doctor...

Ma: [Interrupts] That is not what the doctor said. You don't know what he said, because it was a confidential conversation, and you don't know what he said!

Nancy: All right, all right, all right! You're impossible to talk to right now.

Ma: Well, sorry.

Nancy: No. No, you're not sorry!

Ma: Yeah, I'm not sorry! You have no idea what's going on in my head.

Nancy: Yeah. Well, try me! I have asked you.

Ma: And then what? Then, every time you look at me, that's all that you see?

Nancy: When I look at you, Joy, I will see my daughter.

Ma: You don't need me. You've been doing just fine without me.

Nancy: Oh. How can you say that, huh? Do you honestly think that you were the only one whose life was destroyed?

Ma: [Interrupts] Actually, that's exactly what I think.

Nancy: Yeah? Well how would you feel if somebody took Jack away from you?

Ma: Oh, shut up!

Nancy: Look at him! You should be thinking about him!

Ma: Oh, don't you tell me how to look after my son. I'm sorry that I'm not nice anymore, but you know what? Maybe if your voice saying "be nice" hadn't been in my head, then maybe I wouldn't have helped the guy with the fucking sick dog! Stay there, Jack. I'm calling the fucking lawyer. I can't stay in this place.

Jack: Do you think this will work? Can my strong be her strong, too?

Nancy: Oh. Of course it can. We all help each other stay strong. No one is strong alone. You know, you and your mom, you help each other through, don't you?

Jack: Yep.

Jack: I love you Grandma.

Nancy: I love you too Jack.

Jack: Grandma?

Nancy: Yes?

Jack: I need the scissors.

Nancy: What for?

Jack: For cutting my hair.

Nancy: Do you really want to do that?

Jack: I want to send it to Ma.

Nancy: How come?

Jack: She needs my strong more than me, so I want to send it to her, or you could take it to her?

Nancy: I could help you, if you'd like?

Jack: Yes please.

Nancy: And what about the skyscrapers?

Eilis: Ah, but that's Manhattan. I live in Brooklyn and I work in Brooklyn and if I go out, I go out in Brooklyn. All the skyscrapers are across the river.

Nancy: You don't make it sound very glamorous.

Eilis: It's not, really.

Driver: Girls watch out for the weirdos.

Nancy: We are the weirdos, mister.

[first lines]

Nancy, Rochelle, Bonnie: Now is the time. This is the hour. Ours is the magic. Ours is the power. Now is the time. This is the hour. Ours is the magic. Ours is the power

[Repeat]

Nancy: What's going on? Why aren't you dead?

Sarah: Manon. He came to me. Saved me. Oh, and by the way. He wanted me to give you a message. You're in big shit. He says you've abused the gifts that he's given you, and now you're going to have to pay the price.

Nancy: [her fingers turn to snakes] What's going on?

Sarah: Where did Bonnie and Rochelle go? They just ran out of here without even saying good-bye. That's bad manners.

Nancy: I drink of my sisters, and I take into myself... all the power of Manon.

Sarah: That's all?

Nancy: [Performing the spell to evoke the spirit; calling the corners] Hail to the guardians of the watchtowers of the East, the powers of air and invention. Hear me! Us! Hear us!

Bonnie: Hail to the guardians of the watchtowers of the South, the powers of fire and feeling. Hear us.

Rochelle: Hail to the guardians of the watchtowers of the West, powers of water and intuition. Hear us.

Sarah: Hail to the guardians of the watchtowers of the North, by the powers of mother and earth. Hear us.

Nancy: Aid us in our magical workings on this May's eve.

[pause]

Nancy: [Continues with a new chant] Serpent of old, ruler of the deep. Guardian of the bitter sea. Show us your glory. Show us your power! We pray of thee, we pray of thee. We invoke thee.

[lightening crashes]

Rochelle: You guys, maybe he'll really listen to us now.

Sarah: Who?

Rochelle: Manon.

Sarah: What's that? That's like God?

Bonnie: No. Man invented God. This is much older then that.

Sarah: Do you guys worship the devil?

[the other three girls laugh at Sarah]

Nancy: No. It's like God and the Devil. I mean, it's everything. It's the trees, it's the ground, it's the rocks, it's the moon... it's everything.

Sarah: It's nature.

Nancy: If God and the Devil were playing football, Manon would be the stadium that they played on. It would be the sun that shone down on them.

Nancy: What's wrong with your scars, Sarah?

[Nancy slashes at Sarah's wrists with her dagger]

Sarah: It isn't real.

Nancy: Then why are you still bleeding? Run! Run to your up room like a little coward you are. She's so pathetic!

Chris: You're just jealous!

Nancy: Jealous? Jealous? You don't even exist to me! You don't exist! You are nothing! You are shit! You don't exist. The only way you know how to treat women is by treating them like whores! Well, you're the whore! And this is gonna stop! Do you understand! Do you understand what I'm saying? Hmm?

Chris: [frightened] I'm sorry!

Nancy: Oh, he's sorry! He's sorry, he's sorry, he's sorry, he's sorry, he's sorry!

[Nancy screams]

Nancy: Sorry, my ass!

[Nancy pushes Chris out a window and kills him]

Nancy: You know, in the old days, if a witch betrayed her coven, they would kill her.

Nancy: You know, if I were as pathetic as you are, I would have killed myself ages ago. You should get on with it.

Nancy: Have you ever heard of invoking the spirit? It's when you call him... Manon. It's like... it's like you take him into you. It's like he fills you. He takes everything that's gone wrong in your life and makes it all better again.

Sarah: Nothing makes everything all better again.

Nancy: Maybe not for you...

Nancy: He comes on to anything with tits, Sarah.

Bonnie: Except me.

Sarah: I'm not watching him.

Nancy: He spreads disease.

[uncomfortablely]

Nancy: I speak from personal experience.

[after yelling at Chris]

Nancy: HE'S A JERK!

Nancy: So hot-stuff how did it go?

Sarah: How did what go?

Nancy: Your date with Chris.

Rochelle: Chris already told everybody.

Sarah: [confused] Told everybody what?

Bonnie: That you guys "did it".

Sarah: But we didn't... do it.

Nancy: Well then he was just trying to save-face because he's going around the whole school saying that you were the "lousiest lay he's EVER had" and coming from him that's pretty bad.

Sarah: [looking over to the other girls in the classroom who were giggling] UH UH.

[hoping it wasn't true]

Rochelle: He said the same stuff about Nancy.

Nancy: Told you he was a jerk.

Bonnie: The almanac says today will bring an arrival or something.

Nancy: Yeah, wonderful. I'm getting my rag.

Bonnie: A new wholeness and with it a new balance, earth air, fire, water... maybe it's our fourth!

Nancy: We don't need a fourth.

Bonnie: Nancy, We need someone to call the corners; North, South, East, and West.

Rochelle: Four would make a circle

Nancy: Maybe she could be our fourth?

[motions to female security guard]

Nancy: I love a woman in uniform!

Nancy: [noticing Sarah's cuts] What's up with that?

Sarah: [embarrassed] I slit my wrists.

Bonnie: What you'd do it with?

Sarah: A-a kitchen knife.

Bonnie: [surprised] You even did it the right way.

Sarah: Yeah...

Nancy: [reassuring her] PUNK ROCK! Let's go.

Rochelle: The right way? How do you know the right way?

Bonnie: [defensive] Shut up Rochelle.

Rochelle: Well how do you know?

Sarah: [about Mannon] He wanted me to give you a message: you're in deep shit. He says you've abused what he's given you and now you have to pay the price.

Nancy: [trying to hide her fear] Did he?

Sarah: [Unwavering] He did.

Sarah: [about her supposed "power"] I hate it; it's always getting screwed up. It's like... sometimes I'll... I'll want it to rain, and a pipe will burst in my bedroom, and it'll just get *flooded*

[Smiles slightly]

Nancy: [Bonnie and Rochelle laugh with glee, Nancy looks skeptical] Yeah right.

Sarah: No, really! Or I'll want it just to be quiet and I'll wish for it and wish for it, and I'll go deaf for three days straight.

[Bonnie and Rochelle stare in awe, Nancy looks begrudgingly convinced]

Sarah: [Teaching the game "light as a feather; stiff as a board] You take your index finger and your middle finger and put it under her like this

[Nancy, Sarah, and Bonnie all put their two fingers under Rochelle]

Sarah: [Continuing] Now you have to imagine that she's incredibly light; like she's made of air.

Bonnie: Is that her whole body or just her head?

[laughs]

Rochelle: Cow!

Sarah: Guys, concentrate or it's not gonna work.

Nancy: [everyone is silent briefly, until Nancy laughs] I think I sprained my finger.

Rochelle: Shut up!

[Bonnie laughs]

Sarah: [Trying not to smile] Guys, focus! Ready?

Nancy, Sarah, Bonnie: [they start chanting] Light as a feather, stiff as a board. Light as a feather, stiff as a board

[They keep chanting until Rochelle is raised over two feet in the air]

Sarah: [opens her eyes] Holy shit.

[Bonnie and Nancy stare, speechless]

Rochelle: [Eyes closed] You guys, it's not working.

[opens her eyes and sees she's suspended in mid air]

Rochelle: Wow.

Sarah: Shut up or you're gonna fall!

Rochelle: How do I get down? Whose got the instructions?

Sarah: Just concentrate.

[All are quiet until Bonnie's mom knocks on the door, entering the room just as Rochelle drops to the floor]

Rochelle: Ow! My butt!

Nancy: [Driving] Can you guys tell me what color that light is?

Sarah: It's red.

Nancy: [keeps driving, puts on a faux confused voice] Doesn't red mean stop?

Bonnie: [Playfully] Yeah, red means stop.

[Nancy continues driving, the red light turns green just as they reach it]

Sarah: [concerned] It's like what Lirio was talking about; throwing things out of balance. I know you guys think we're getting what we want now, but it's going to come back to us, threefold.

Bonnie: [Mockingly] Ohh!

Nancy: Are we actually having a theological conversation here. I mean it's fun, it's scary. I mean, who gives a shit?

[Bonnie and Rochelle giggle in the backseat]

Sarah: [Turning to them] What do you guys think?

Nancy: [dismissively] They don't think

Rochelle: [mock offended] Bitch!

[Bonnie continues to giggle]

Nancy: [Turns to Sarah] And stop trying to win them over, because it won't work.

Rochelle: [Slightly annoyed] I'm not trying to win them over, you're paranoid.

Nancy: [Angry] I'm paranoid? I'm not paranoid!

[Bonnie and Rochelle start repeating the word "paranoid", contiguously laughing historically]

Nancy: Will you guys shut up!

[to Sarah]

Nancy: You want in or do you want to leave this circle? Just tell me right now.

Sarah: [Raising her voice slightly] Why does it always have to be that way with you Nancy?

Nancy: [Very angry] Because that's the way it is!

Sarah: [Sarah's tone calms down, but remains firm] All I'm saying is, I think you should *think*.

[pause]

Sarah: Add I don't want out.

[Takes on a warning tone]

Sarah: One of these times, the light's not gonna be green, Nancy.

Bonnie: [about running away when the snake man is hit by a car] The car hit him, and we made it happen!

Nancy: [diplomatic] Maybe, maybe not.

Bonnie: [Excited] Definitely! I thought to myself, "it's going to hit him".

Rochelle: [also excited] I thought it too!

Nancy: Well, I did too...

Bonnie: Sarah, did you think it?

Sarah: [Slightly apprehensive] Yeah.

Bonnie: Then that's it, Sarah's the forth! North, South, East, and West; we can make things happen! This is it, this is real.

Nancy: [Finally starting to share the excitement] Shit.

Sarah: [Performing a glamor spell] This is to feel/This is to be/Shape and form it/For all to see

[moves her hands to cover her eyes]

Sarah: By the power of three times three/As I will it/So shall it be!

[Uncovers her eyes in a ta-da move]

Rochelle: [Nancy, Bonnie and Rochelle look around, confused] What?

Sarah: My eyes are brown.

[they move in closer to look]

Bonnie: [unimpressed] Oh.

Sarah: [explaining] They're usually green.

Bonnie: [Still lackluster] Oh.

Nancy: [sounding unimpressed to the point of annoyance] You can do that with contacts.

Bonnie: [Reassuringly] Yeah, but it's good. I mean, it suits you.

Rochelle: [lackluster] Subtle.

[adds reassuringly]

Rochelle: but good!

Sarah: You want something bigger?

Nancy: [Now excited] I want bigger!

Nancy: [after finding out that Chris had tried to rape Sarah] I'm gonna go play.

Sarah: I need help to undo a love spell.

Lirio: [Matter-of-fact] When you open a flood gate, how can you undo it? You unleash something with a spell. There is no undoing; it must run it's course.

Nancy: You should let him suffer.

Lirio: It's not for you to judge suffering.

Nancy: You're still the love of my life. Should I tell you that?

Nancy: I thieved for you when I was half his age and it's your dirty work I've been doing ever since.

Bill: Well if you have it's a living ain't it?

Fagin: Yes, a living is a living.

Nancy: Some living, Lord help me, some living!

Nancy: Bill, you do love me, don't ya?

Bill Sikes: Of course I do; I live with ya, don't I?

Nancy: [to Oliver] Charmed!

Dodger: Oh yes! We're all ladies and gentlemen around here. We're all quality.

Nancy: Now don't you take no notice of them, just because you got manners and they ain't!

Bill Sikes: You're a fine one for the boy to make a friend of!

Nancy: Yes, I am, Lord help me! But tonight he's a liar, and a thief, and all that's bad! Ain't that enough for you without beating him to death?

Mr. Brownlow: [referring to Bill Sikes] Who is this man?

Nancy: No, I won't tell ya! Whatever else I do I won't turn on him. You wouldn't understand, but I've got to go back. I want to go back.

Nancy: [singing] Who cares if straightlaces sneer at us in the street? Fine airs and fine graces don't have to sin to eat.

Mr. Brownlow: Wait! Is the boy hurt, ill-treated? If so, I shall...

Nancy: [referring to Bill Sikes] I can't say no more, PLEASE! He'll kill me as it is if he finds out!

Nancy: I will not turn on the others because, bad as they are, they never turned on me.

Nancy: [about Oliver] I thieved for you when I was a child not half his age, and I've thieved for you ever since, don't you know it!

Fagin: And if you have, it is your living!

Nancy: Aye, it is. It is my living. And you're the wretch that drove me to them long ago, and that'll keep me there, day and night, day and night, DAY AND NIGHT!

Nancy: He'll blow on us Fagin, for certain.

Nancy: Let him be or I'll put that mark on you that'll send me to the gallows before me time.

Nancy: What does your husband think about this?

Rebecca: I don't have a husband.

Nancy: Show me your ring finger.

[Rebecca shows Nancy her left hand]

Nancy: Are you a lesbian?

Nancy: Let me tell you about love. You don't ask, you give.

Christine: [a demonic presence, surrounded by a foul stench, lingers in the air] Stop farting. It really stinks.

Nancy: Don't blame that on me, it's you.

Officer Pappas: Hey, hey, what are you doing running around out here? Now you go on back to bed.

Nancy: No! No, no, there's a scary man!

Officer Pappas: Aww, what scary man?

[Jason appears]

Nancy: Is he killed?

Nancy: This island didn't have a murder rate until you people showed up!

Nancy: Amy's getting married in a few weeks and she thinks some maniac is following her around.

Elliot: Oh, is he a big man?

Amy: Let's just forget it.

Elliot: No Amy, is he a big man?

Amy: Yes.

Elliot: Probably sexual!

Nancy: Gosh, I'm stiff from that long ride.

Nancy: Yeah, but he's dead, and I want to go on living.

Max Parks: I'll double your salary.

Nancy: My life's worth more than that.

Max Parks: Triple it.

Nancy: Okay, it's a deal.

Nancy: I'm not just a dumb blonde, you know.

Annie: Who says you're a blonde?

Nancy: Jacqueline, you've spoken so often of ending it all I can't understand why this should be so difficult for you. You have only to drink a little.

Esther Redi, Jacqueline's Partner: Yes, Jacqueline. You were always talking suicide; ending your life when you wanted to.

Jacqueline Gibson: Yes, when *I* wanted to.

Natalie: Keep it down over there!

Richard: Shut up, bitch!

[He shines a spotlight on the group]

Nancy: Okay, we get the point. You can turn out the light now.

[the light goes out]

Nancy: Can we all agree that we are not going to play 'shout out' with those people?

[last lines]

Jack Ellery: Nancy, what shall I do?

Nancy: Oh, Mr. Ellery!

Jack Ellery: C'mon, let's do it.

[first lines]

Nancy: It's like walking on fake ground upside down, choking.

Carol: Oh, is that what you think love feels like?

Nancy: No. Death is like sucking pure oxygen.

Carol: And life?

Nancy: It's like being trapped inside the wrong house looking for a way out.

Carol: Well, how do you know you'll be able to breathe once you die?

Nancy: Because I'll be outside my body. I'll be floating and free.

Carol: How do you know? How do you know it won't be worse?

Nancy: I know it will be better than this.

Carol: You don't know that, Nancy. What if death, as you say, *is* leaving your body, but not your mind? What if you're trapped inside your mind? What then?

Nancy: Then I'll release it and be free.

Carol: If you can release there, why not release it here?

Carol: It is possible that our thoughts create patterns or pathways in our brain and after repeated negative thoughts then those pathways become attached, addicted to those repeated stimulations and those negative thoughts are very very hard to redirect.

Nancy: It's such a load of crap, you don't know what real pain is.

Carol: This has nothing to do with you. You are a beautiful woman. You are an intelligent woman.

Nancy: No.

Carol: Nancy, you...

Nancy: No no no, we can't always be what we want to be, what we wish we could be. Get that?