Rena Quotes in Lucas (1986)

[Ben slams open the classroom door and interrupts the school band practicing]

Ben: Did you hear about Lucas?

Tonto: What about him?

Rena: It's suicide.

Ben: What do you mean?

Ben: He's gone out for the football team!

[Lucas quietly joins the kids in the cafeteria, sad over the distance between him and Maggie]

Ben: [Ben shouts out to Lucas] Lucas! We're over here.

Ben: Sit down. We're trying to figure out how to get rid of this jackass band teacher. I hate the idiot's guts.

Tonto: Too bad Treichel had to kill himself.

Ben: Yeah, Why'd he have to kill himself and leave us with this jackass.

Tonto: Sex-crazed, that's why.

Rena: He wasn't sex-crazed, he was in love.

Tonto: With a dental technician?

Rena: Not everybody has to be glamorous to have someone fall in love with them.

Tonto: You don't kill yourself over a dental technician.

Rena: You ever hear of Romeo and Juliet?

Tonto: Was she a dental technician?

Rena: No, but people do kill themselves when they can't have who they love.

Ben: I thought he had a heart attack.

Tonto: No heart attack, my man. He blew his brains out with a book of poetry open and a rose in the page.

Rena: I think it's kind of beautiful, the poetry, I mean. It was probably Keats or Shelley.

[Lucas sits quietly watching the football players at the other table]

Rena: Throw it to Lucas!

Maggie: Throw it to Lucas!

Ben: Throw it to Lucas!

Band Member: Throw it to Lucas!

Coach: No, don't throw it to Bly!

[Lucas sits outside of the school dance when Rena joins him at his side]

Rena: Lucas, is that you? What are you doing?

Lucas: Nothing much.

Rena: You look nice.

Lucas: Thank you.

[Rena sits next to Lucas]

Rena: Drinking beer?

Lucas: Dragonfly Nymph. You ever see one?

[Lucas holds up a beer bottle with a bug inside]

Rena: Oh, it's ugly. Glad it's not bigger than me.

Lucas: It turns into something very beautiful, Rena.

Rena: Is that possible?

Lucas: Yeah, can you imagine that? Turning from something ugly into something beautiful.

Rena: No. Frankly, I can't.

[pause]

Rena: You going to bring it to Carlson?

[Lucas then throws the bottle as it splashes in the water]

Rena: I thought you had a date.

Lucas: Nah.

Rena: Well, are you going in?

[Lucas nods no]

Rena: Why not?

Lucas: Thinking.

Rena: About what?

Lucas: Romeo and Juliet.

Rena: Really? How come?

Lucas: How old were they? Do you know?

Rena: She was 13, and I guess he was about the same. Why?

Lucas: Two different worlds, huh?

Rena: Romeo and Juliet? Yeah.

Lucas: That can be a problem.

Claudia: Good evening!

Rena: No, Claudia, No! You really shouldn't be here. You can't be here.

Claudia: Now, how can you say that I can't be here when I already am? It's just not logical.

Rena: No, no, no!

Claudia: This is my faithful companion, Boots.

Boots: Hi, hi, hi!

Rena: You know Claudia, since you left us, rumor has it that you've gone into the darkside.

Claudia: Ha! A witch? Moi? Oh, you can't be serious. Do I look like a witch to you?

Rena: Well, you know, you really should leave because if Hortense was to see you here, I could lose my own wand.

Claudia: No, one knows the pain of such a loss more than I. So, I'll go. But, before I do, I remembered what a healthy appetite you have. So, I brought you a little something from my gardn.

Rena: No thanks, I just had quite a bitof a... Oh, my that is the reddest apple I think I've ever seen.

Claudia: Oh, it tastes even better than it looks.

Rena: Well, I...

Claudia: Yummy!

Rena: [as she takes the apple and eats it] Mmm!

Claudia: Now is that the apple of a witch?

[Rena shakes her head and falls into a deep sleep]

Claudia: You bet it is!

Rena: Workers of the world arise. You've got nothing to lose but Visa card, happy meal, and Kotex with wings.

Rena: You're a stupid girl, you walk away from money to punish mother?

Rena: Everybody's gotta die sometime!