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Mr. Alphonso: Psst. Where are you going?
Alice Spages: None of your business, fatso.
Mr. Alphonso: Uh, I'm not feeling well and stores don't deliver on Sundays.
[he makes fake coughing noises]
Mr. Alphonso: How would you like to go to the store for me, please?
[Alice walks off]
Mr. Alphonso: That little bitch.
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Alice Spages: There's so much junk around this filthy place, I bet you never clean it. It smells like cats' piss.
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Mrs. Tredoni: [Alice scares Mrs. Tredoni with a grinning mask] Oh, you nasty child! Out of my kitchen!
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Aunt Annie DeLorenze: She's dead! Karen's dead! She's dead! Karen's dead!
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Aunt Annie DeLorenze: Angela, stop eating! Haven't you had enough? Jim, help me clean up this mess. You don't need that drink!
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Mr. Alphonso: [about Karen's funeral] I heard everyone leave. It's all over, huh? Well, you die and they put you in the ground. Such a shame. Such a pretty girl too. Too bad she was the one to end up in the box.
Alice Spages: My mother thought you could use some cake, fatty.
[hands him cake]
Mr. Alphonso: Thank your mother for me. Such a lovely lady. God always takes the pretty ones.
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Catherine Spages: [about her ex-husband] I don't know why I'm so worried. I just can't imagine where he could be.
Mrs. Tredoni: Maybe you are afraid that God will send St. Michael to take another of your loved ones. When St. Michael took my little girl, I only thought of how cruel God was.
Catherine Spages: Mrs. Tredoni, I'm sorry. I never knew you had a little girl.
Mrs. Tredoni: God took her from me on the day of her first communion, don't you see? He waited until then to teach me that children pay for the sins of their parents. And then I was sent here to look after Father, not you!
[points butcher knife at catherine]
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Mr. Alphonso: [to Alice who has brought a rent check from her mother to him] Give me that check!
Mr. Alphonso: [Alice crunches the check in her hands as he grabs it] You little bitch! Look what you've done to this check!
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Mrs. Tredoni: [accusingly to priest] But you give it to the whore!
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Mrs. Tredoni: Bless me Father, for I have sinned.
Father Tom: We're only hearing the children this morning.
Mrs. Tredoni: ...Bless me Father, for I have sinned.
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Mrs. Tredoni: You filthy pig! You and that WHORE! You both belong in the snares of the devil!
Dom Spages: BWAHHHH!
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Pathologist: Alice needs psychological help.
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Detective Cranston: She is a weird little girl. Did you notice her tits? When I put the tube around her she looked at me, like she wanted me to feel her up.
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Aunt Annie DeLorenze: [Annie sees a figure in a yellow coat on the stairs as Mr. Alphonso plays his records] Alice!
[Annie reaches down but the figure stabs her repeatedly, her face concealed by a mask]
Catherine Spages: Annie... Annie!
[the figure disappears down the stairs]
Mr. Alphonso: Alice, you little bitch!... Catherine no, don't go down there!
Catherine Spages: [Catherine pushes him out of the way and runs downstairs, chasing Annie as she crawls away] Annie, wait!
Aunt Annie DeLorenze: [Annie makes it outside and onto the sidewalk in the pouring rain just as Catherine reaches her] AAAAAHHHHH!
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Mr. Alphonso: [advancing towards Alice with a creepy smile, fondling her and touching her hair] Where are you going? I know what you have downstairs!
Alice Spages: [backing away, disgusted by Alphonso's pervy behavior] You've been snooping through my things?
Mr. Alphonso: YOUR things? They're not YOUR things!... Karen will come for them! The dead have ways! The dead don't rest easy!
[presses her up against the door and begins kissing her]
Alice Spages: You'd better let me go, you weirdo!
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Alice Spages: [frightened, holding up Karen's porcelain doll] I was saving it for your Karen, you can have it!
[bursts into tears]
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Children Shelter Attendant: Dr. Whitman wants you to sign a release form for medication
[anti-psychotic meds for Alice]
Catherine Spages: [hostile] What does she need that for...?
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Dr. Whitman: [smug tone] Why did Alice conceal from you the fact that she's begun menstruating...? Parents, so often, don't know their children as well as they presume.
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Catherine Spages: [grief-stricken] Who's doing this to me? Haven't I had enough?... Alphonso told the police it was Alice...
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Alice Spages: [to the lie detector man] I put Debbie's coat in the toilet if that's what you mean... but I didn't lie, I told the Sister I did it!
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Alice Spages: It was KAREN, I told them it was Karen but no one believed me!
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Mr. Alphonso: [to his hoard of pet kittens] Are Momma's little babies hungry?
[the kittens refuse to eat from the tin of moist cat food]
Mr. Alphonso: ... Well, Momma is.
[Alphonso begins to eat the food from the tin himself]
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Karen Spages: [Disembodied voice singing] My name is Karen, my mother's name is Catherine, my sister is Alice, and I'm buried in the cemetery!
[repeated twice]
Alice, Sweet Alice Quotes
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